FEATURES .IISpecifications

II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS P2L97-DS Motherboard

The ASUS P2L97-DS is carefully designed for the discriminating PC user who wants smart features processed by the fastest CPU. This motherboard:

•Dual Processor Support: Dual Intel Pentium® II (233MHz–333MHz) processors.•Intel Chipset: Features Intel’s 440LX AGPset with I/O subsystems.

•Adaptec SCSI Chipset: Supports an optional Adaptec’s 7880 Ultra-Fast/Wide SCSI chipset.

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

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

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

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

•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.

•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.) (See section V)

•Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control- ler with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra DMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports Enhanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup and CD-ROM drives. Two floppy drives of either 5.25inch or 3.5inch (1.44MB or 2.88MB) are also sup- ported without an external card. Supports Japanese standard “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 supports IDE CD-ROM or SCSI device boot-up.

•Multi-Cache:Supports a Pentium® II processor with either 0, 256, or 512KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.

•Versatile Memory Support: Equipped with four DIMM sockets to support [8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 (EDO only) MB] 168-pin SDRAM/EDO memory mod- ules up to 1 GB.

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

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ASUS P2L97-DS User’s Manual