The K7SOM+ is a motherboard manufactured by ECS EliteGroup. This motherboard is no longer in production and represents motherboard technology that's several generations out of date. It lacks many of the features found on more modern boards. Being a Micro-ATX board, it offers little in the way of expansion, with a number of integrated hardware components.
CPU and Chipset
The K7SOM+ motherboard uses an AMD Duron CPU that comes pre-installed with a heatsink/fan unit. This CPU conforms to the AMD Socket A 462 form factor. It has a Front Side Bus of 266/200 megahertz. The motherboard has both a northbridge and southbridge, which control motherboard input and output. The northbridge operates using the SiS 740 chip set and the southbridge operates using the SiS 962L chip set.
Graphics, Memory and Audio
The K7SOM+ motherboard provides you with an integrated SiS Real256 2-D/3-D graphics adapter. This adapter, being integrated, shares its memory with the rest of the system. In total, it uses up to 64MB of available memory. The K7SOM+ doesn't have an expansion slot for an external graphics adapter. For the memory itself, the K7SOM+ supports up to 2GB of DDR memory. RAM sticks can be installed into one or both of its two 184-pin DIMM sockets. The motherboard provides audio support with the C-Media CMI9738 four-channel audio codec and is compliant with the AC'97 2.2 specifications.
Storage and Expansion
The K7SOM+ motherboard offers you the ability to connect up to four Ultra DMA 133/100/66 IDE drives, through support by the SiS 962L South Bridge. Due to its age, it doesn't offer support for newer storage formats such as SCSI, SATA or RAID. For expansion, you may use the motherboard's two PCI slots and its one CNR slot.
Connectors
The K7SOM+ motherboard's rear panel input/output consists of one PS/2 keyboard and one PS/2 mouse connector, four USB ports, one RJ45 LAN connector using a VIA VT6103 10/100 Fast Ethernet PHY, one VGA port, one parallel port, one serial port, and one audio port with line-in, line-out and mic-in ports. Its internal input/output connectors and headers include one 20-pin ATX power connector, one FDD connector, two IDE connectors, one speaker header, one IrDA header, one USB card reader header, one USB 2.0 header support connector, one front panel switch and LED header, one front panel audio header, 1 CD-in header and CPU Fan and SYS Fan connectors.
BIOS and Form Factor
The motherboard uses an Award BIOS with a 2MB Flash ROM. This in turn supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot and DMI as well as ACPI revision 1.0. The K7SOM+ follows the Micro-ATX form factor, measuring 244 mm by 190 mm.
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