BS61M
series
~2~
Congratulations on purchasing a
BS61M
series
motherboard, which we
are certain will provide you with years of reliable and stable performance.
Motherboards in the
BS61M
series
are Micro-ATX boards that measure
244 mm by 210 mm and which use a 4-layer printed circuit board. Your
board features a PPGA370ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) processor socket that
can house any of Intel’ s original generation processors and other compatible
CPU. What’ s more, it’ s now undergoing testing at Taiwan’ s National
Software Testing Laboratories to ensure it’ s fully Y2K compliant.
Motherboards in the
BS61M
series
support system bus speeds of both
66MHz and 100MHz, which means you may use either inexpensive 66MHz
memory chips or high-performance 100MHz chips. You can also overclock
your system, as your motherboard supports CPU ratios. System instability
won’ t be a problem, since our motherboards have been designed to operate
reliably and safely, even when overclocked.
Your board contains three DIMM modules, which allow system
memory expansions of up to 384MB. And your motherboard is PC99
compliant with color-coded connectors that make connections less confusing
and time consuming. Your motherboard will also allow your system to be
booted remotely via a local area network (LAN). Other advanced features
included with your system are support for Universal Serial Bus (USB)
connections and ultraDMA 33/66 support.
Thanks to its SiS 620 chipset, your motherboard is integrated 2D/3D
graphics capabilities. The graphics controller uses a shared memory
architecture that allows it to use 2MB, 4MB or 8MB of the system’ s main
memory or uses the or board video RAM of
BS61M
series
.
It also comes with integrated PCI-bus 3D audio functionality. The
onboard audio chip provides Sound Blaster 16-bit-compatitible audio, plus
support for Microsoft’ s DirectSound 3D and an Aureal 3D interface. Three
PCI slots and two ISA slots are provided for system expansion, while an anti-
virus function is built into the BIOS. This
protects the system from boot
viruses and ensures that a clean environment is maintained at all times. This
Chapter 1
Motherboard Feature Introduction