User`s guide

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket-478 supporting Intel Prescott/
Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading Technology processors with
Front-Side Bus (FSB) speeds up to 800 MHz. Hyper-Threading
Technology, designed to take advantage of the multitasking
features in Windows XP, gives you the power to do more things at
once.
This motherboard integrates the Intel 865PE Northbridge along
with Intel 82801EB I/O Controller Hub (ICH5) that support
the Serial ATA interface for high-performance and mainstream
desktop PCs; the built-in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth,
implementing Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
and is compliant with UHCI 1.1 and EHCI 1.0.
It supports AC’97 Audio Codec and provides Ultra DMA 33/
66/100 function. It has one 8x/4x AGP and five 32-bit PCI slots.
There is a full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse
and keyboard, one serial port, one parallel port, one LAN port
(optional), three audio jacks for micropone, line-in and line-out,
four back-panel USB 2.0 ports and onboard USB headers USB2/
USB3 providing four extra ports by connecting the extended USB
module to the motherboard.
It features the Gigabit Ethernet interface that provides up to ten
times the throughput (10/100/1000 Mb/s operation) and faster
transfer rate (1 Gigabit/s) than conventional Ethernet connection.
It improves system availability, data security, user bandwidth and
network manageability.
It is an ATX motherboard and has power connectors for an ATX
power supply. It is also certified by WHQL (Windows Hardware
Quality Labs) that ensures you the hardware and drivers compat-
ibility with Windows operating systems.