Chapter 1: Introduction
1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
The P6F94 is a high quality, high performance, function enhanced
mainboard, based on the powerful Intel Pentium II processor operating
at 233, 266, 300, 333MHz and Intel Celeron processor operating at 266,
300MHz. This mainboard is designed around the latest Intel 82440LX/
EX chipset with built-in ESS sound chip in a Micro-ATX form factor.
The Soft-menu (jumperless) design of the P6F94 uses the onboard BIOS
for clock frequency, and CPU multiplier, jumper settings are no longer
needed.
The P6F94 mainboard delivers workstation level performance with its
integrated AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), Bus Mastering EIDE
(Enhanced IDE) controller, concurrent PCI bus, and its ability to
accommodate EDO (Extended Data Out) and SDRAM (Synchronous
DRAM) memory. When this high data stream bandwidth mainboard is
equipped with powerful 64-bit Pentium II or Celeron processor with
MMX technology, your system has the power to handle future
demanding communication, multi-media, multi-tasking and intensive 32-
bit applications on advanced 32-bit operating systems.
P6F94 mainboard may have either Intel 82440LX or Intel 82440EX
chipset installed. When P6F94 mainboard equipped with Intel 82440LX
chipset, it can achieves the highest reliability by supporting the ECC
(Error Checking and Correction) memory protection. This enables the
P6F94 (with Intel 82440LX chipset) mainboard to achieve superior data
integrity and fault-tolerance, in respect to memory errors while running
applications. NOTE: ECC function is not supported by Intel 440EX
chipset.
The P6F94 mainboard offers outstanding I/O capabilities. It contains a
full set of PC I/O, such as dual channel PCI EIDE interfaces, a floppy
controller, two FIFOed serial port connector, an EPP/ECP capable
bidirectional parallel port connector, an IrDA compatible infrared port,
dual USB (Universal Serial Bus) connector, and a PS/2 keyboard
connector and a PS/2 mouse connector. One AGP slot, Three PCI local
bus slots and one ISA bus slots provide expandability for add on
peripheral cards.
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