Also known as:

• Fake Albatron PX845EV (name reported by BIOS DMI)

Known issues:

• Fake AGP slot

Any AGP cards inserted into this slot operate in PCI 33Mhz Fallback mode.

1. DO NOT use 1.5V exclusive AGP cards (rear notch away from IO side) in this board.
2. ONLY use true universal AGP cards with both slots, these support 1.5V and 3.3V operation.
   • This is a PCI bus connected to an AGP slot.
   • The PCI bus operates at 3.3V and may damage 1.5V exclusive cards.
   • AGP cards are backwards compatible with PCI signalling logic.
   • Performance is greatly reduced vs a true AGP bus.

Notes:

Hardware identification software like CPU-Z and HWiNFO may report this motherboard as an Albatron PX845EV instead. We suspect this is because either it was sold as a counterfeit Albatron motherboard, or slim chance the BIOS was stolen from an Albatron motherboard and the DMI data was not changed properly. As the BIOS string seems different from Albatron i845 motherboards and "PX845EV" seems to be a nonexistent model name (closest name is PX845EV1), the former is most likely the case.

Also, although it is physically keyed as 1.5V, please avoid using 1.5V exclusive AGP cards on this motherboard as the AGP slot is fake and is electrically wired to a 3.3V PCI bus. This is because the 865GV chipset does not support an external AGP interface. Attempting to use such a card on this slot will likely fry the card, the slot or both. You must instead use a universal AGP card that supports both 1.5V and 3.3V. Performance and GPU compatibility will also be considerably worse compared to a true AGP slot.