Biostar M7VIB [6/73] Introduction

Chapter 1 Motherboard Description

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Introduction

System Overview

Congratulat ions on the purchase of your new system! T his motherboard is designed to

take advantage of the latest industry technology to provide you with the ultimate

solution in data processing. In the tradition of its predecessors, this motherboard

continues the commitment of reliability, performance and strives for full compliance

and compatibility with industry software and hardware standards.

M7VIB Highlights:

8 Contains on board I/O facilities, which include two serial ports, a parallel port, a PS/2

mouse port, a PS/2 keyboard port, audio ports, USB ports and a game port.

8 Contains on board IDE facilities for IDE devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM

Drives.

8 Supports the AMD-Athlon

processor, a leadin g ed ge processor which brin gs to

you the latest technology in microarchitecture design, graphics performance, system

bus design, cache architecture and much more.

8 Complies with PC ATX form factor specifications.

8 Supports popular operating systems such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows

2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Novell, UNIX, LINUX and SCO UNIX.