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... for Socket 478 2-5 Installing the CPU Fan 2-5 Memory 2-7 Introduction to DDR SDRAM 2-7 DDR Population Rules 2-7 Installing DDR Modules 2-8 Power Supply 2-9 ATX 20-Pin Power Connector: ATX1 2-9 v Getting Started 1-1 Mainboard Specifications 1-2 Mainboard Layout 1-4 MSI Special Features 1-5 Super Pack 1-5 Core Center 1-6 Live BIOS™/Live Driver 1-8 Live Monitor 1-9 D-Bracket™ 2 (Optional 1-10 S-Bracket (Optional 1-12...
... for Socket 478 2-5 Installing the CPU Fan 2-5 Memory 2-7 Introduction to DDR SDRAM 2-7 DDR Population Rules 2-7 Installing DDR Modules 2-8 Power Supply 2-9 ATX 20-Pin Power Connector: ATX1 2-9 v Getting Started 1-1 Mainboard Specifications 1-2 Mainboard Layout 1-4 MSI Special Features 1-5 Super Pack 1-5 Core Center 1-6 Live BIOS™/Live Driver 1-8 Live Monitor 1-9 D-Bracket™ 2 (Optional 1-10 S-Bracket (Optional 1-12...
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h Supports up to two Serial ATA drives. - Chipset h Intel® 865PE/G chipset - Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, 8 ports. - 2 Serial ATA/150 ports. - 2 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus Master IDE controller. - On-Board IDE h Dual... DDR SDRAM. h Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface). Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes. - MS-6728 ATX Mainboard Mainboard Specifications CPU h Supports Intel® P4 Northwood/Prescott (Socket 478) processors. h Intel® ICH5/ICH5R chipset - PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC. - Serial ATA/150 RAID 0 (...
h Supports up to two Serial ATA drives. - Chipset h Intel® 865PE/G chipset - Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, 8 ports. - 2 Serial ATA/150 ports. - 2 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus Master IDE controller. - On-Board IDE h Dual... DDR SDRAM. h Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface). Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes. - MS-6728 ATX Mainboard Mainboard Specifications CPU h Supports Intel® P4 Northwood/Prescott (Socket 478) processors. h Intel® ICH5/ICH5R chipset - PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC. - Serial ATA/150 RAID 0 (...
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... Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip. - Compliance with AC97 v2.2 Spec. - BIOS h The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which records your mainboard specifications. On-Board Peripherals h On-Board Peripherals include: - 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes - 1 serial port COM1, 1 VGA port (for Intel... Rear * 4/ Front * 4) - 1 Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In port - 1 RJ45 LAN jack (Optional) - 3 IEEE 1394 pinheaders (Optional) Audio h 6 channels software audio codec C-Media 9739A. - Dimension h ATX Form Factor: 30.5 cm (L) x 24.4 cm (W).
... Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip. - Compliance with AC97 v2.2 Spec. - BIOS h The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which records your mainboard specifications. On-Board Peripherals h On-Board Peripherals include: - 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes - 1 serial port COM1, 1 VGA port (for Intel... Rear * 4/ Front * 4) - 1 Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In port - 1 RJ45 LAN jack (Optional) - 3 IEEE 1394 pinheaders (Optional) Audio h 6 channels software audio codec C-Media 9739A. - Dimension h ATX Form Factor: 30.5 cm (L) x 24.4 cm (W).
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...Clock = 100MHz Core/Bus ratio = 16 then CPU core speed = Host Clock x Core/Bus ratio = 100MHz x 16 = 1.6 GHz MSI Reminds You... Any attempt to prevent overheating. We do not find the heat sink and cooling fan, contact your components are installing the CPU,...mainboard uses a CPU socket called PGA478 for easy CPU installation. Overclocking This motherboard is not recommended. When you do not guarantee the damages or risks caused by inadequate operation or beyond product specifications is designed to protect the CPU from overheating. Hardware Setup Central Processing Unit...
...Clock = 100MHz Core/Bus ratio = 16 then CPU core speed = Host Clock x Core/Bus ratio = 100MHz x 16 = 1.6 GHz MSI Reminds You... Any attempt to prevent overheating. We do not find the heat sink and cooling fan, contact your components are installing the CPU,...mainboard uses a CPU socket called PGA478 for easy CPU installation. Overclocking This motherboard is not recommended. When you do not guarantee the damages or risks caused by inadequate operation or beyond product specifications is designed to protect the CPU from overheating. Hardware Setup Central Processing Unit...
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... of 150 MB/s. SATA2 B AT T + SATA1 1 7 2-19 Both connectors are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. SATA1 & SATA2 are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Please refer to 1 hard disk device.
... of 150 MB/s. SATA2 B AT T + SATA1 1 7 2-19 Both connectors are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. SATA1 & SATA2 are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Please refer to 1 hard disk device.
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Both connectors are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. And STAT3 & SATA4 are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. IDE3 is a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 controller that provides PIO mode 0~6, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA...SATA2. You can connect to Serial ATA/Serial ATA Raid manual for detail software installation procedure. 2-20 B AT T + IDE3 7 1 SATA4 SATA3 MS-6728 ATX Mainboard Serial ATA /Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Promise 20378: IDE3, SATA3 & SATA4 (Optional) The brand new Promise 20378 chipset supports one IDE slave.
Both connectors are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. And STAT3 & SATA4 are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. IDE3 is a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 controller that provides PIO mode 0~6, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA...SATA2. You can connect to Serial ATA/Serial ATA Raid manual for detail software installation procedure. 2-20 B AT T + IDE3 7 1 SATA4 SATA3 MS-6728 ATX Mainboard Serial ATA /Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Promise 20378: IDE3, SATA3 & SATA4 (Optional) The brand new Promise 20378 chipset supports one IDE slave.
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... The AGP slot allows you to insert the expansion cards to make sure that you unplug the power supply first. AGP is an interface specification designed for the graphics controller to insert the AGP graphics card. It introduces a 66MHz, 32-bit channel for the throughput demands of 3D... graphics. PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots The PCI slots allow you to directly access main memory. Hardware Setup Slots The motherboard provides one AGP slot and five 32-bit PCI bus slots. Meanwhile, read the documentation for the expansion card, such as jumpers, switches...
... The AGP slot allows you to insert the expansion cards to make sure that you unplug the power supply first. AGP is an interface specification designed for the graphics controller to insert the AGP graphics card. It introduces a 66MHz, 32-bit channel for the throughput demands of 3D... graphics. PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Slots The PCI slots allow you to directly access main memory. Hardware Setup Slots The motherboard provides one AGP slot and five 32-bit PCI bus slots. Meanwhile, read the documentation for the expansion card, such as jumpers, switches...
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The specification of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to define the HDD parameters Cylinders Enter cylinder number Heads Enter head number ...
The specification of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to define the HDD parameters Cylinders Enter cylinder number Heads Enter head number ...
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...BBS-5 The system will boot from the second BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. BBS-6 The system will boot from the 9th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. BBS-8 The system will boot from the 7th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. USB CDROMThe system will boot from the Network ... such as MO or ZIP drive, that functions as a floppy drive. BBS-4 The system will boot from the 5th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. USB HDD The system will boot from the USB-interfaced HDD. BBS-9 The system will boot from the 10 BBS (BIOS Boot...
...BBS-5 The system will boot from the second BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. BBS-6 The system will boot from the 9th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. BBS-8 The system will boot from the 7th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. USB CDROMThe system will boot from the Network ... such as MO or ZIP drive, that functions as a floppy drive. BBS-4 The system will boot from the 5th BBS (BIOS Boot Specification) compliant device. USB HDD The system will boot from the USB-interfaced HDD. BBS-9 The system will boot from the 10 BBS (BIOS Boot...
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A password prompt appears every time when the computer is possible if you to select which MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) version to be used to run Setup. Settings: Enabled, Disabled. and *OS: An operating system that supports HT Technology and has it...the system performance. For more information on or when end users try to enable or disable the Hyper Threading function. Setting options are described below. MSI Reminds You... Settings: 1.4 and 1.1. 3-11 But it enabled; Hyper Threading Function This field is implemented. Enabling the functionality of Hyper-Threading ...
A password prompt appears every time when the computer is possible if you to select which MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) version to be used to run Setup. Settings: Enabled, Disabled. and *OS: An operating system that supports HT Technology and has it...the system performance. For more information on or when end users try to enable or disable the Hyper Threading function. Setting options are described below. MSI Reminds You... Settings: 1.4 and 1.1. 3-11 But it enabled; Hyper Threading Function This field is implemented. Enabling the functionality of Hyper-Threading ...
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...3-19 Available settings for the Keyboard Wakeup function. Settings: Any Key, Specific Key, Disabled. Keyboard PowerOn Function This controls how the PS/2 keyboard can power on a specific date/hour/minute/second specified in these fields. If you have changed ... it enters the operating system, before this function will automatically resume (boot up the system sleep state. Specific Key for PowerOn This setting allows users to wake up ) on the system. Mouse PowerOn Function This item...31, Every Day Alarm Hour 00 ~ 23 Alarm Minute 00 ~ 59 Alarm Second 00 ~ 59 MSI Reminds You...
...3-19 Available settings for the Keyboard Wakeup function. Settings: Any Key, Specific Key, Disabled. Keyboard PowerOn Function This controls how the PS/2 keyboard can power on a specific date/hour/minute/second specified in these fields. If you have changed ... it enters the operating system, before this function will automatically resume (boot up the system sleep state. Specific Key for PowerOn This setting allows users to wake up ) on the system. Mouse PowerOn Function This item...31, Every Day Alarm Hour 00 ~ 23 Alarm Minute 00 ~ 59 Alarm Second 00 ~ 59 MSI Reminds You...
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...not upgrade to the new BIOS, unless you really have to the date this release note and decide for yourself if upgrading to http://www.msi.com.tw/support/bios/note.htm for the release. For newer model number: W5139MS V1.0 091096 where: 1st digit refers to BIOS maker as... 5 = 486, 7 = 586, 8 = 686. 4th digit is incremental. 091096 refers to . Bugs are found 4. Customer-specific request When we release a new BIOS, there's usually a release note attached which lists the reason for details. A: A new BIOS is released. 2. Q: How do I update the...
...not upgrade to the new BIOS, unless you really have to the date this release note and decide for yourself if upgrading to http://www.msi.com.tw/support/bios/note.htm for the release. For newer model number: W5139MS V1.0 091096 where: 1st digit refers to BIOS maker as... 5 = 486, 7 = 586, 8 = 686. 4th digit is incremental. 091096 refers to . Bugs are found 4. Customer-specific request When we release a new BIOS, there's usually a release note attached which lists the reason for details. A: A new BIOS is released. 2. Q: How do I update the...
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... that a low-cost transceiver chip be point-to-point or multipoint. It stores the G-1 Glossary Glossary Glossary ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) This power management specification enables the OS (operating system) to control the amount of power given to each device. Bluetooth requires that contains all the control code of 3-D graphics...
... that a low-cost transceiver chip be point-to-point or multipoint. It stores the G-1 Glossary Glossary Glossary ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) This power management specification enables the OS (operating system) to control the amount of power given to each device. Bluetooth requires that contains all the control code of 3-D graphics...
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...is the smallest unit of time recognized by a device. This means that there are stored. As the development of technology, the memory type and specification used type of semiconductor, which runs at 66 MHz. Chipset A collection of integrated chips designed to perform one transistor and a capacitor to 533 ...MHz), the CPU can execute several instructions in computer becomes variety, such as SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, and RDRAM. MS-6728 ATX Mainboard contents of frequently accessed RAM locations and the addresses where these data items are 66 million clock cycles per second.
...is the smallest unit of time recognized by a device. This means that there are stored. As the development of technology, the memory type and specification used type of semiconductor, which runs at 66 MHz. Chipset A collection of integrated chips designed to perform one transistor and a capacitor to 533 ...MHz), the CPU can execute several instructions in computer becomes variety, such as SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, and RDRAM. MS-6728 ATX Mainboard contents of frequently accessed RAM locations and the addresses where these data items are 66 million clock cycles per second.
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... MS-6728 ATX Mainboard IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) A type of disk-drive interface widely used to another without any cables. IEEE 1394 A new, high speed external bus standard, also known as the ATA (AT Attachment) specification. The L1 cache is associated with the IBM AT motherboard. This specifies... to the microprocessor. These individual PCs and devices on the LAN, so that many users can send interrupt signals to flow between the motherboard circuitry and an expansion slot card and its IRQ number by cables to set its associated device(s). When you add a new device to...
... MS-6728 ATX Mainboard IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) A type of disk-drive interface widely used to another without any cables. IEEE 1394 A new, high speed external bus standard, also known as the ATA (AT Attachment) specification. The L1 cache is associated with the IBM AT motherboard. This specifies... to the microprocessor. These individual PCs and devices on the LAN, so that many users can send interrupt signals to flow between the motherboard circuitry and an expansion slot card and its IRQ number by cables to set its associated device(s). When you add a new device to...
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...a PnP expansion card are properly connected and operating. PCI provides "plug and play " it is resetting your system, the BIOS executes a series of specifications that allows a PC to configure itself automatically to be shared. PnP (Plug and Play) A set of diagnostic tests, include checking the RAM, the...late 1993. The PCI controller can "plug" in data storage capacity. A logical block address is a 28-bit value that maps to a specific cylinder-head-sector address on the disk. 28 bits allows sufficient variation to specify addresses on a hard disk up to the computer bus or ...
...a PnP expansion card are properly connected and operating. PCI provides "plug and play " it is resetting your system, the BIOS executes a series of specifications that allows a PC to configure itself automatically to be shared. PnP (Plug and Play) A set of diagnostic tests, include checking the RAM, the...late 1993. The PCI controller can "plug" in data storage capacity. A logical block address is a 28-bit value that maps to a specific cylinder-head-sector address on the disk. 28 bits allows sufficient variation to specify addresses on a hard disk up to the computer bus or ...