American Megatrends III User Manual

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Apollo III PCI Pentium ISA Motherboard User’s Guide

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Overview,

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DRAM Cached If 256 KB of L2 secondary cache memory is installed on the motherboard, up

to 128 MB of system memory can be cached.

If 512 KB of L2 secondary cache memory is installed on the motherboard, up
to 256 MB of system memory can be cached.

System Memory The motherboard supports up to 256 MB of system memory mounted on the

motherboard in two banks of 72-pin 4 MB, 8 MB, or 16 MB SIMMs.

Use Fast Page Mode or Extended Data Out (EDO) SIMMs operating at 60 ns.

Fast ATA

The motherboard supports the Fast ATA specification using PIO mode 4 and
multiword DMA mode 2.

System BIOS

This motherboard has a 128 KB AMIBIOS system BIOS on a Flash ROM
with built-in WINBIOS Setup.

BIOS Shadowing The system BIOS is always copied from ROM to RAM for faster execution.

The end user can shadow 16 KB ROM segments from C0000h – DCFFFh.

Motherboard Size The Apollo III Pentium PCI ISA motherboard is 10 inches by 8.625

inches.

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