Intel 815 Micro-ATX Mainboard
INTRODUCTION
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1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1
OVERVIEW
This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard. Intel® i815
chipset is chosen as the core logic of the mainboard to give the most outstanding
performance and reliability. It is the Micro-ATX form-factor with Socket 370
designed on the board for Pentium™ !!! processor.
Intel® i815 chipset is a high integration, high performance, power-efficient and
high compatibility device which supports Intel and non-Intel processors to PCI
bridge functionality for the complete PC99-compliant PCI system. The Intel® i815
chipset provides two channels of "PIO” and "Ultra DMA33/66 Bus Master” mode
PCI IDE ports to support the most updated Ultra DMA 66 HDD. There are one
Floppy Disk controller, two high speed Serial ports (UARTs), one multi-mode
Parallel port, one PS/2™ mouse port, one IR interface and two USB ports
(815TM5 supports up to five USB ports) designed on the board for wide variety of
peripheral connection.
According to the requirement from different customers, this mainboard will have
different feature as shown in the following table:
Model Name
USB Port
815TM
Two USB Ports
815TM5
Five USB Ports
There are the 3D PCI audio and AGP VGA interfaces built on the board. These
onboard interfaces are the PnP devices (Plug and Play) and they are fully
compatible with the Windows environment. So you don't have to purchase another
sound card or VGA card because the onboard interface will meet your multimedia
requirement. ( Please refer to Section 3-5 for the installation of the device driver
for the onboard audio and VGA interfaces.)
Note: Pentium™ !!! processor is the 32-bit processor with RISC technology,
which offers several key features such as built-in L2 cache, 12-stage super-pipeline
architecture, out of order execution … etc. In order to optimize of its capabilities
and performances, the 32-bit Operating System (such as Windows 95®, Windows
98®, Windows NT® and OS/2™ …etc.) and 32-bit applications are
recommended.