Owner manual

Introducing the Motherboard

Features

Processor

This motherboard uses a 479-pin socket that carries the following features:

• Accommodates Intel Pentium M/Celeron processors

• Supports a system bus (FSB) of 400 MHz

Intel’s 855GME/852GM Northbridge (NB) and ICH4M Southbridge (SB) chipsets

are based on an innovative and scalable architecture with proven reliability and

performance.

855GME/

852GM(NB)

• Supports DDR-SDRAM at 333/266/200MHz Operation

(852GM supports DDR266/200MHz only)

• Supports Host dynamic bus inversion (DBI)

• AGTL+bus driver technology with integrated AGTL termi-

nation resistors and low voltage operation

• Supports Internal Graphics Features with up to 64 MB of

Dynamic Video Memory allocation

Chipset

ICH4M(SB)

• Compliant with PCI 2.2 specification at 33MHz

• Integrated LAN controller

• Supports AC’97 2.3 specification

• USB host interface supporting 6 USB ports; 3 UHCI host

controllers and 1 EHCI high-speed USB 2.0 Host controller

• Supports up to two Ultra DMA100/66/33 IDE channels

• ACPI Power Management Logic support

Memory

• Supports DDR 333/266 DDR SDRAM DIMMs (only 855GME

supports)

• Supports 128-Mb, 256-Mb and 512-Mb SDRAM technolo-

gies providing maximum capacity of 1GB with X16 de-

vices and up to 2GB with high density 512-Mbit technol-

ogy

• Video Stream Decoder, which supports for standard definition DVD

quality encoding at low CPU utilization

• Analog Display Support with 350 MHz integrated 24-bit RAMDAC

• High quality performance Texture Engine

Graphics

AC’97 Audio CODEC

• Compliant with the AC’97 v2.3 CODEC

• Supports 6-channel audio CODEC designed for PC multimedia sys-

tems

• Provides three analog line-level stereo inputs with 5-bit volume con-

trol: Line-in, CD, AUX

• Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements