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•Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium® III / II processor pack- aged in a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC2/SECC) or a CeleronTM proces- sor packaged in a Single Edge Processor Package (SEPP).

•Wake-On-LAN Connector: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through an op- tional ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card (see APPENDIX) or a similar ethernet card.

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

•Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, of- fering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-infirmware-based virus protection through Trend ChipAway Virus codes, and autodetection of most de- vices for virtually automatic setup.

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

•Easy Installation: Incorporates BIOS that supports autodetection of hard disk drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make the setup of hard disk drives, expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.

•PC’98 Compliant: Both the BIOS and hardware levels of ASUS smart series of motherboards meet PC’98 compliancy. The new PC’98 requirements for sys- tems and components are based on the following high-level goals: Support for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and man- aging all system components, and 32-bit device drivers and installation proce- dures for Windows 95/98/NT.

•Symbios SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through the onboard SYMBIOS firmware.

Performance Features:

•Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas- ter busses to the memory and processor.

•Double the IDE Transfer Speed: ASUS smart series motherboards with Intel chipsets improves IDE transfer rate using Bus Master UltraDMA/33 IDE which can handle data transfer up to 33MB/s. The best of all is that this new technol- ogy is compatible with existing ATA-2 IDE specs so there is no need to upgrade current hard drives or cables.

•SDRAM Optimized Performance:Supports the new generation memory - Syn- chronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) which increases the data transfer rate to 800MB/s max using PC100-compliant SDRAM.

Specifications

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