Specifications

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Technical Reference Booklet
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
Key Features :
Chipset
• VIA PT800+VT8237/VT8235CE chipset.
Processor
• Supports the Intel® Celeron, Northwood processors in the 478-pin
package (with 0.8V~1.6V voltage).
• Supports 64-bit PSB (Processor System Bus) frequency of 400MHz
(100MHz bus clock), 533MHz (133MHz bus clock)
• Supports 64-bit PSB (Processor System Bus) frequency of 800MHz
(200MHz bus clock).
VRM 10.0 (Voltage Regulator Modules) on Board
• Flexible motherboard design with on board VRM 10.0, easy to upgrade
with future Intel® Celeron, Northwood and Prescott processors.
• 0.8375V to 1.600V in 12.5mV steps.
System Memory
• A total of three 184-pin DDR SDRAM sockets.
• Support up to 3GB DRAMs for register and unbuffered DDR SDRAM module.
• Support PC3200/PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM.
• 2.5V DRAM interface for DDR SDRAM.
System BIOS
• PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows® 98/2000/XP.
• Full support of ACPI & DMI.
• Auto detects and supports LBA harddisks with capacities over 8.4GB.
• Easy to upgrade BIOS by end-user.
On-board I/O
• On board two PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA, ATA2 , Ultra ATA33/
66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives and LS-120 drives as boot drive.
• One ECP/EPP parallel port.
• Two 16550 Compatible UART serial ports.
• One floppy port supports two FDD of 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB , 1.44MB and
2.88MB capacity.
• Eight USB2.0 ports for VT8237,six USB2.0 ports for VT8235CE.
• PS/2 keyboard connector.
• PS/2 mouse is supported.
• One Front Panel Sound Connector.
• Infrared (IrDA) is supported via a header.
Expanded USB Support
• Includes 4 UHCI host controllers,increasing the number of external
ports to eight.
• Includes 1 EHCI USB2.0 Host Controller that supports eight ports
(Bandwidth shared between eight ports).