Asus P4SE/U2 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Motherboard Information

ATX 12V connector. This power connector connects the 4-pin 12V
plug from the ATX 12V power supply.

CPU Sockets. A 478-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF)
socket for the Intel

Pentium

4 478/Northwood Processor with 400

MHz system bus that allows 3.2 GB/s data transfer rates
respectively.

ATX 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).

DDR DIMM Sockets. These three 184-pin DIMM sockets support
up to 3GB using non-ECC PC2100/1600 DDR SDRAM DIMMs.
(Note: PC 2700 max. to 4 banks only.)

Floppy 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.

Northbridge Controller. This SiS 645 controller integrates a high
performance host interface for the Intel

Pentium

4 processor, a

memory controller and an integrated graphics interface.

IDE Connectors. These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors
support up to four Ultra DMA133/100/66, PIO Modes 3 & 4 IDE
devices. Both the primary(blue) and secondary(black) connectors
are slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.

AGP slot. This Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot supports
AGP4x mode graphic cards for 3D graphical applications.

ASUS ASIC. This chip performs multile system functions that
include hardware and system voltage monitoring.

South bridge controller. This SiS 962L controller integrates the
AC’97 Interface, Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Host controllers, two IDE
Master/Slave controllers.

Super I/O chipset. This interface provides the commonly used
Super I/O functionality. The chipset supports a high-performance
floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/2.88M floppy disk
drive, a PS/2 keyboard and mouse port, a multi-mode parallel port,
a game port and, a serial port.