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Introducing the Mainboard
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Thank you for choosing the S740MP/S740M mainboard. This mainboard is a
high performance system board integrated with SiS740 Northbridge and
SiS962L Southbridge chipset. This mainboard accommodates AMD Athlon XP
processors supporting frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to 100/133 MHz.
The mainboard has 2 built-in 184-pin DIMM slots, and the main memory is
expandable to a maximum of 2GB. It also supports the high-end CPU of all
series of current Athlon XP or higher.
The S740MP/S740M is equipped with advanced set of I/O ports, such as a
VGA port, four USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors, a LAN port, a PS/2
keyboard connector, mouse connector and audio jacks for microphone, line-in
and line-out. Two PCI local bus slots and one communication and networking
riser (CNR) slot provide expandability for add-on peripheral cards. It also
comes with a built-in Enhanced PCI Bus Master PCI IDE controller that
provides high-speed connections to full range of IDE devices such as HDD
and CD-ROM. This mainboard is designed in a standard micro-ATX form
factor using a 4-layer printed circuit board and measures 244 mm x 190 mm.
Notice to user:
If your S740MP mainboard has CPU onboard. Please refer to the mainboard layout on
page 6.
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Compare the mainboard’s package contents with the following checklist:
Standard Items
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One mainboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable (optional)
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One IDE drive ribbon cable
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One auto-install software support CD
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This user’s manual
