FEATURES .IISpecifications

II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS P2B Motherboard

The ASUS P2B is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.

•Multi-Speed:Supports Intel Pentium® II (233 to 450MHz) and CeleronTM (266MHz and faster) processors.

•Multi-Cache:Supports processors with or without Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache.

•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 en- hanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based virus protection through Trend ChipAway Virus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.

•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100- compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, or 128MB) up to 384MB. These new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement.

•Thermal Sensor Connector with Optional Sensor: Accurately detects the CPU

temperature of processors with the ASUS Smart Fan or the Intel boxed processor heatsink with fan when connected to an ASUS P2T-Cable.

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

•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 DMA 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 three 16-bit ISA slots.

•Intelligence: Supports Keyboard Power Up, Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Tem- perature Monitoring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert, Intel LANDesk Client Manager (LDCM), and ASUS PC Probe software.

•Super Multi-I/O:Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2 to the Infra- red 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: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup, CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives.

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

•SCSI BIOS: Supports optionalASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware.

•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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