• Albatron PX845EV (fake)

• 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.

• Counterfeit/fake motherboard

This motherboard is known to be sold as a replica of a genuine model and it usually is of poor quality, by using cheap components and PCB materials. It is likely that the board's specifications will not match the genuine model. As such, there might be BIOS and driver compatibility issues.

If you have such a board, it is recommended to ask other members of the community for more information.

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.