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Gigabyte GA-6VTXD

Gigabyte GA-6VTXD Revision 1.0

Specifications

CPU support

Supported sockets:
  • PGA370
Front Side Bus speed: 100/133 MHz
Supported architectures:
  • Intel Celeron Coppermine-128
  • Intel Celeron Tualatin-256
  • Intel Pentium III Coppermine
  • Intel Pentium III Tualatin
  • Intel Pentium III-S Tualatin
Note! Some steppings might require updated BIOS/microcode to work properly.
Dual Socket board. Requires CPU1 to be installed for operation, as CPU2 is optional. No socket termination is required for single-CPU operation.

Two Coppermine based or higher Celeron CPUs can be installed, however they will not operate in SMP mode

System memory

  • Type: SDRAM
    4x 168-pin DIMM
    ECC memory is optional
    Registered memory is optional
Max supported: 2.00 GB
May unofficially support 4096MB (4GB). This claim is unproven, and may not actually work.

Platform

Northbridge/MCH: VIA Apollo Pro 133T
Southbridge/ICH/PCH/MCP: VIA VT82C686B
VIA VT1612A audio IC over AC97 bus

Power supply

Main board power: 20-pin ATX
3 3-pin DC fan headers

Expansion slots

AGP 2.0 4x slot with Universal keying
AGP 4x support is buggy due to the VIA Apollo Pro 133T chipset, any graphics cards that use 4x or higher will fall back to 2x speeds. Some can be forced to run at 4x, albeit unstable.
5 PCI slots

Rear I/O ports

PS/2 keyboard
PS/2 mouse
2x USB 1.1 (15 Mb/s)
2x DE-9 serial
1x DB-25 parallel
Audio connectors: Line out, Line in, Microphone in
MIDI/game port

Internal I/O headers

2x USB 1.1 (15 Mb/s)
Audio headers: Aux in, CD in, TAD/modem
Header for front AC'97 Audio
Wake-on-LAN
Wake-on-Modem

Storage

2 IDE channels, up to 100 MB/s
Floppy connector, up to 1 drive

Circuit board

ATX form factor
PCB manufactured in the year 2003

Notes

Depending on board revision, this motherboard can have an ISA slot added if the solder pads are present.

A beta BIOS, F3 is available. Note that this was most likely officially recalled, and is only provided as an archive.

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Attachments

Documentation

BIOS image

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Disclaimer

The info you find here might not be 100% correct. This is due to a couple of reasons:
  • I'm an idiot and I misread/misspelled something
  • I have a different board revision from yours
  • The production date/plant is different and they might have used slightly different components
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