Mainboard KI51PV-754Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Congratulations on choosing the KI51PV-754 Mainboard. It is based on the nVIDIA® nForce4 C51PV Northbridge chipset and the nVIDIA® nForce4 MCP51 Southbridge chipset; with possessing integrated graphics feature. The mainboard supports the AMD AthlonTM 64/ SempronTM processor (The power consumption for the aforementioned processors must be rated at 65W or less.) socket 754 with FSB (Front Side Bus) frequencies of 800 MHz (1600 MT/s).
The KI51PV-754 provides one DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) socket. It allows you installing 184-pin, non-ECC and unbuffered DDR400 (PC3200)/ DDR333 (2700) SDRAM which supports a total memory capacity of 1GB.
The mainboard provides one PCI slot for use with a graphics card or expansion cards which the interfaces are compatible.
The KI51PV-754 provides one floppy disk drive connector that can be used with 360KB/ 720KB/1.2MB/1.44MB/2.88MB drives. It also has two IDE connectors for hard drives supporting Ultra ATA 66/100/133. In addition, the onboard Serial ATA II comes with four SATA II connectors, which each interface can provide up to3 Gbps transfer rate and also support RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ JBOD/ 5 mode (See Appendix II).
Moreover, the KI51PV-754 provides onboard I/O facilities such as one VGA connector (=D-Sub connector), one DVI connector, and a maximum of eight USB 2.0/ 1.1 ports that can be set. Four headers are also available on this mainboard for a TV OUT connector, a printer connector, and two COM connectors to be set externally with cables and used additionally.
The onboard AC’ 97 audio codec supports high quality 6-channel audio play (Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect) (See Appendix I) and supports the Sony/Philips Digital Interfaces (SPDIF) specifications (Optional).
This mainboard also comes with one onboard 10/100 Mbps and the other built-in 1 Gbps Ethernet LAN chips. There are two LAN ports on the back panel of your computer case that you can directly plug into an Internet cable.
In addition, this mainboard supports the ABS (Albatron BIOS Security) card (Optional), which is a small circuit board inserted onto the mainboard providing full backup BIOS functionality in case of BIOS failure or damage during the BIOS flash (See Appendix III).
All the information (including hardware installation and software installation) in this manual are for reference only. The contents in this manual may be updated without notice. The company will not assume any responsibility for any errors or mistakes within.
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