1Onboard LED. This onboard LED lights up if there is a standby power on the motherboard. This LED acts as a reminder to turn off the system power before plugging or unplugging devices.

2ATX power connector. This standard 20-pin connector connects to an ATX 12V power supply. The power supply must have at least 1A on the +5V standby lead (+5VSB).

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CPU Socket. Socket 462 (Socket A) Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for AMD Athlon XP™ up to 3000+ processors.

NorthBridge Controller. The NVIDIA® nForce2™ IGP North Bridge controller chipset. The controller supports a 64/128bit DDR memory controller and up to 2 GB of 400/333/266/200MHz DDR memory. The Northbridge controller is equipped with a maximum 128MB integrated graphics UMA share memory for the onboard VGA.

5DDR DIMM Sockets. Equipped with two Double Data Rate Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR DIMM) sockets to support up to 2GB of DDR SDRAM, the newest memory standard with the highest bandwidth and lowest latency currently available. This memory technology supplies data transfer rates up to 6.4GB/s for 400MHz DDR SDRAM.

6IDE Connectors. These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors support up to four UltraDMA133/100, PIO Modes 0-4 IDE devices. Both the primary(blue) and secondary(black) connectors are slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.

7Floppy Disk connector. This connector connects the provided ribbon cable for the floppy disk drive. One side of the connector is slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the floppy disk cable.

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Flash ROM. This 4Mb ISA chip contains the programmable BIOS program.

Super I/O chipset. ITE IT8712F-A offers support for a variety of I/O functions. Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. The Super I/O controller supports a floppy disk drive, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.

10South bridge controller. This motherboard is loaded with the brand new NVIDIA® nForce2™ MCP integrated peripheral South Bridge controller

which operates at 800MB/s to communicate with the North Bridge for maximum bandwith required for PCI, USB and support for Fast Ethernet devices. The controller supports standard UltraDMA133/100 and separate data paths for each IDE channel are built-in for up to two IDE devices. The controller supports six USB ports, one LAN port and is PCI rev2.2 compliant.

ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard user manual

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