ABIT®
Announces
New
Socket
370
board,
the
BM6
Taipei,
Taiwan,
ROC,
December
2,
1998.
Coinciding
with
the
newest
Intel
socket
architecture
and
the
relevant
440BX
chipset
which
supports
it,
ABIT
announced
their
newest
440BX
based
motherboard
using
the
Socket
370
architecture
with
Soft
Menu
II�
and
five
PCI
slots,
the
BM6.
ABIT's
BM6
is
the
newest
Intel
440BX
based
mainboard
with
Socket
370
which
was
designed
for
the
new
socket
based
Celeron�
CPUs.
Full
Features
Now
ABIT's
new
BM6
has
One
AGP,
Five
PCI
and
Two
ISA
slots
to
handle
all
of
your
expansion
needs.
The
ABIT
BM6
comes
with
all
of
the
latest
advancements
and
trends
in
the
motherboard
industry,
including
but
not
limited
to;
all
the
specifications
for,
AGP
for
improved
3D
graphics
performance
at
a
lower
cost,
APM/ACPI
power
management,
Ultra
DMA
33
support,
Infrared
peripheral
support,
USB,
PS/2
mouse
and
keyboard
connectors,
CPU
auto-detect,
AWARD
write
protect
anti-virus,
and
Wake
On
LAN,
the
BM6
also
supports
Wake
on
Keyboard
and
Wake
on
mouse.
APMstands
for
Advanced
Power
Management
and
it
is
a
feature
rich
power
management
function
for
a
more
energy
efficient
P.C.
It
includes
Soft
Power
On/Off,
Sleep,
Suspend
and
Stand-By
mode,
Real
Time
Clock
(RTC)
Alarm
and
RTC
Power
On,
and
Modem
Ring
On.
The
networking
standard
Wake
On
Lan
(WOL)
is
also
supported.
The
ABIT
BM6
also
supports
the
new
standard
in
hard
disk
drive
technology,
Ultra
DMA
33.
It
allows
for
double
the
transfer
rate
over
standard
IDE
drive
technology.
Wireless
keyboards,
printers,
mouse
and
joysticks
are
also
supported
by
the
BM6
thanks
to
the
on
board
iRDA
(Infrared)
pin
header.
There
are
also
two
USB
connectors
on
the
ABIT
BM6
so
you
can
take
advantage
of
the
newest
Universal
Serial
Bus
peripherals.
Also
included
are
PS/2
mouse
and
keyboard
connectors
if
you
prefer
to
use
this
other
new
type
of
keyboard
and
mouse
port.
The
BM6's
three
DIMM
sockets
also
provide
enough
main
memory
capacity
for
business
computing,
3D
gaming,
multimedia
applications
and
CAD/CAM
applications
as
well.
WindBond
Hardware
Monitoring
Winbond
Hardware
Doctor
is
a
self-diagnostic
system
for
PCs
and
must
be
used
with
Winbond
chipsets.
It
protects
PC
hardware
by
monitoring
several
critical
items
including
power
supply
voltages,
CPU
&
system
fan
speeds,
and
CPU
and
system
temperatures.
Once
any
item
is
out
of
its
normal
range,
a
warning
window
will
pop
up
and
remind
the
user
to
take
proper
measures.
It
will
protect
PC
hardware
by
monitoring
the
most
critical
items.
These
items
are
important
for
the
operation
of
the
system,
as
errors
may
result
in
permanent
damage
of
the
PC.
Soft
Menu�
II
Included
with
the
BM6
is
ABIT's
award
winning
Soft
Menu�
CPU
configuration,
Soft
Menu�
II.
The
BM6
implements
Soft
Menu�
II
technology
that
eliminates
all
jumpers
on
the
mainboard
that
set
CPU
parameters,
allowing
end-users
to
easily
and
correctly
install
or
upgrade
their
own
CPU.
Normally
certain
features
cannot
be
changed
in
the
BIOS
of
other
jumperless
motherboards,
but
ABIT
has
developed
a
way
to
configure
a
greater
range
of
features
with
their
new
Soft
Menu�
II.
It
also
offers
a
more
enhanced
boot
up
speed
over
the
Soft
Menu�
original
and
saves
your
CPU
configuration
in
a
new
manner
that
by-passes
the
default
settings,
saving
them
into
the
new
Soft
Menu�
II
circuitry
so
that
you
do
not
have
to
reenter
the
values
again.
ABIT,www.abit.com.tw
The
BM6
will
be
available
by
the
beginning
of
January
1999