Chapter 1 Motherboard 4S648/4S648N

Chapter 1

4S648/4S648N

1. 4S648/4S648N Specifications

1.1 Introduction

The 4S648/4S648N motherboard is an integration of Intel

P4 CPUs in Socket-478 packaging and the North Bridge

SiS648 supporting 533/400 MHz Front Side Bus.

North Bridge SiS648 on board also supports DDR 333/

266/200 DRAMs and the integrated AGP 8X/4X Interface, while the South Bridge SiS963L provides stable supports of

ULTRA ATA 133/100, 6-channel Audio playback, integrated

Digital Audio Controller, LPC Super I/O, USB 2.0/1.1 interfac.

PCI interface as well as integrated 10/100Mbit Fast Ethernet

LAN Controller.

The resulting architecture will provide an ideal multi-task environment to support operating systems such as MS-DOS,

Windows, Windows NT , Windows ME, Windows 2000, Novell,

OS/2, Windows 95/98, Windows 98SE, Windows XP, UNIX,

Liunx, SCO UNIX etc. This user-friendly manual is to describe in detail how to install, configure and use this motherboard with drivers and BIOS setup illustrations.

This manual is a general reference of the first release of this motherboard which is subject to update without notice. If any difference is found between this manual and the motherboard you are using, please refer to the Web Site.

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