FEATURES .IISpecifications

II. FEATURES

Features

The ASUS P2B-D/P2B-DS motherboards are carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.

•Multi-Speed:Supports Dual Intel Pentium® II processors from 233MHz to 450MHz.

•Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-side bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66-MHz internal bus speed to 100MHz.

•Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offering enhancedACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-inhardware-based virus protection through Trend ChipAwayVirus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.

•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with four DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100- compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 1GB. These new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement.

•Wake-On-LAN:Supports Wake-On–LAN activity with special network cards, such as the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.

•Adaptec SCSI Chipset: Features Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset (optional) that supports a combination of 8-bit and 16-bit Ultra2, Ultra, and single-ended or standard SCSI devices and the AIC-3860 transceiver chipset (optional) that bridges the compat- ibility gap between these mixed environments without affecting system performance by taking advantage of the benefits of low-voltage differential (LVD) technology.

•AGP Slot: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications.

•SB-Link™:Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, using Intel’s PC-PCI and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compatible PCI audio cards.

•SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physically transport commands and information between SMBus devices.

•PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides four 32-bit PCI and two 16-bit ISA PCI slots.

•Intelligence: Supports Keyboard Power Up, Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Tem- perature Monitoring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert, and Virus Write Protection through the onboard Hardware Monitor, Intel LANDesk Cli- ent Manager (LDCM), and ASUS PC Probe software.

•Super Multi-I/O:Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one paral- lel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.

•Desktop Management Interface (DMI): Supports DMI through BIOS, which allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compat- ibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)

•Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE/Floppy: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports En- hanced IDE devices. Two floppy drives of either 5.25inch or 3.5inch (1.44MB or 2.88MB) are also supported without an external card. Supports Japanese standard “Floppy 3 mode” (3.5-inch disk drive: 1.44MB, 1.2MB, 720KB) and LS-120 floppy disk drives (3.5-inch disk drive: 120 MB). BIOS supports IDE CD-ROM or SCSI device boot-up.

•IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.

•Concurrent PCI: Allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master buses to memory to CPU.

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