Chapter 2 INSTALLATION
2-1 Motherboard Layout
The motherboard is designed with the Intel 82430TX, PCI chipset which is
developed by Intel Corporation to fully support the Pentium Processor
PCI/ISA system. The Intel 82430TX 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
16Byte 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 when
installing P54C/P54CTB/P55C/ K5/K6/6x86/M2 due to possible overheat.
The motherboard supports minimum of 8 MB of system memory and a
maximum of 256MB.
The onboard L2 Cache is 512KB SRAM to increase system performance.
The motherboard supports standard Fast Page (FP), EDO (Extended Data
Out), or SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM). The motherboard provides four
72-pin SIMM. The socket supports 1Mx32 (32MB) single-sided or double-
sided memory modules. The memory timing requires 70ns Fast Page
devices or 60ns EDO RAM. Memory parity generation and checking is not
supported. (DRAM Modules may be parity (x36) or non-parity (x32).
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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