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Chapter 2 INSTALLATION
2-1 Motherboard Description
The motherboard is designed with the VIA VT82C597AT PCI chipset
which is developed by VIA Corporation to fully support the
Pentium Processor PCI/ISA system. The VIA VT82C597AT PCI
chipset provides increased integration and improved performance
designs. The chipset provides an integrated IDE controller with two
high performance IDE interfaces for up to four IDE devices (hard
devices, CD-ROM device, etc). The Super I/O controller provides the
standard PC I/O function: floppy interface, two 16-Byte FIFO serial
ports and EPP/ECP capable parallel port.
Care must be taken when inserting memory modules, inserting CPU
or even plugging PCI card into associated slots to avoid damaging any
circuits or sockets on board. A cooling fan is strongly recommended.
The motherboard supports minimum of 8MB of system memory and a
maximum 1GB RAM.
The motherboard supports standard Fast Page (FP), EDO (Extended
Data Output), or SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM). The motherboard
provides two 168-pin DIMM.
The board also supports onboard two PCI IDE connectors, and detects
the IDE hard disk type by the BIOS utility which is automatic. The
system also supports Award Plug & Play BIOS for the ISA and PCI
cards.
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