Chapter 1. getting started, Introduction – Albatron Technology PX845PEV-800 User Manual
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Albatron Anniversary Special Edition PX845PEV-800
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Congratulations on choosing the Albatron Anniversary Special Edition PX845PEV-800
mainboard! Albatron PX845PEV-800 is based on either the Intel
®
82845PE Northbridge
chipsets and 82801DB Southbridge chipset. It supports Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 Socket 478
Processors with a FSB (Front Side Bus) frequency of 800/ 533/ 400MHz.
Albatron PX845PEV-800 provides 3 DIMM sockets using 184-pin DDR SDRAM with a total
capacity of up to 2 GB. You can install DDR 400/ 333/ 266 (PC3200/ 2700/ 2100) SDRAM.
Albatron PX845PEV-800 provides one AGP Slot for 4X (1.5V only) AGP cards. Albatron
PX845PEV-800 also comes with AGP protection which ensures that you only install 1.5V
AGP cards. Five 32 bits PCI Slots stand for Peripheral Component Interconnect.
Albatron PX845PEV-800 includes two built in IDE facilities that support Ultra DMA 33/ 66/
100 BMIDE and PIO Modes, one FDC facilities that support 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and
2.88M.
Albatron PX845PEV-800 provides three FAN power headers; they are available for cooling
fans. They are CPU FAN, Auxiliary FAN, and Chassis FAN, they are used for decrease the
devices temperature of the system.
Albatron PX845PEV-800 provides one standard PS/2 mouse connector, one PS/2 Keyboard
connector, two Serial ports (RS-232), and one Parallel port (DB-25).
Albatron PX845PEV-800 also comes with six USB 2.0 ports (two onboard, four by USB
bracket) for USB devices, and a LAN Chip which supports a back panel LAN port (RJ-45).
Albatron PX845PEV-800 contains a “Watch Dog Timer” feature, it is used to detect when the
system is unable to handle over-clocking configurations during POST stage.