FEATURES .II

Features

II. FEATURES

ASUS P2L-VM/P2E-VM Motherboard Features

The ASUS P2L-VM/P2E-VM motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many features in a small package.

ASUS P2L-VM/P2E-VM Specifications:•microATX: Features ASUS’ custom designed microATX form factor.

•Multi-Speed:Supports the Intel Pentium® II (233MHz–333MHz) and Celeron™ (266MHz and faster) processors.

•Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440LX or 440EX AGPset with I/O subsystems.

•Onboard AGP VGA: Features ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X VGA chipset onboard with 8MB SDRAM memory.

•Onboard Audio (optional): Features surround sound audio onboard with digital audio SPDIF (Sony/Philips digital interface) input/output. 16-bit full-duplex Sound Blaster 16/PRO compatible with stereo voice up to 48KHz sampling. Features 3D positional audio supporting Microsoft Direct Sound 3D DirextX 5.0.

•Versatile Memory: Supports two DIMM sockets to support 8MB-128MB 168- pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 256MB.

•Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE/Floppy: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra DMA/33, PIO Modes 0 to 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Modes 0 to 2, and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup and CD-ROM drives. Supports two drives of either 5.25-inch (360KB or 1.2MB) or 3.5-inch (720KB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB) disk drives. Supports Japanese “Floppy 3 mode” (3.5-inch disk drive: 1.2MB) and LS-120 floppy disk drives (3.5-inch disk drive: 120 MB, 1.44MB, 720K). BIOS also supports IDE CD-ROM or SCSI device boot-up.

•Multi-Cache:Supports a Pentium® II processor with either 512KB, 128KB, or 0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.

•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 Infrared Module for wireless connections.

•AMC: Supports an ATI-compatible TV tuner card on the ATI Multimedia Connector

•TV-Out:Supports viewing on a standard television with the optional onboard ImpacTV2 and an optional TV-Out bracket with SVHS and RCA connectors.

•IrDA: Supports an optional IrDA-compliant module for wireless interface.The P2L-VM Motherboard adds:

•Versatile Memory: Supports three DIMM sockets to support 8MB-128MB 168-pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 384MB.

•Data Integrity: Features Error Checking and Correction (ECC) through the 440LX chipset and ECC supported DIMM.

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ASUS P2L-VM/P2E-VM User’s Manual