1 Hardware Installation

Overview

The American Megatrends Pegasus PCI Pentium II ISA motherboard features include:

an Intel Pentium II CPU operating at 233, 266, 300 MHz or higher speeds ,

up to 768 MB of system memory on the motherboard,

parity checking or ECC (Error Checking and Correction),

PCI local bus throughput of 132 megabytes per second,

the American Megatrends SystemGuru server management software,

three ISA expansion slots, and

four PCI expansion slots.

CPUs

 

The Pegasus motherboard will support all Intel Slot1 CPUs operating at 233

 

 

MHz, 266 MHz, 300 MHz, or faster speeds.

 

 

 

 

PCI Bus Speed AMIBIOS automatically configures the PCI slots. The PCI slots are

 

 

synchronous with the CPU clock:

 

 

 

CPU External Clock Frequency

PCI Expansion Slot Frequency

 

 

66 MHz

33 MHz

 

 

60 MHz

30 MHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

Onboard I/O The Pegasus motherboard includes:

two 40-pin IDE connectors for 1 – 4 IDE drives,

a 34-pin floppy drive connector,

two serial port connectors,

a 25-pin parallel port connector,

a keyboard DIN connector,

two 4-pin USB ports, and

a 9-pin berg mouse connector.

Server Management Software The American Megatrends SystemGuru server management software is included with the Pegasus motherboard. SystemGuru uses the LM78 interface to constantly monitor and report the CPU temperature, fan speed, ECC memory errors, ambient temperature, CPU voltage, system voltage and other user-specified system status information to any remote client computer. See the American Megatrends SystemGuru User’s Guide for additional information.

Chapter 1 Hardware Installation

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American Megatrends MAN-759 manual Overview, CPUs, CPU External Clock Frequency PCI Expansion Slot Frequency