FEATURES .IISpecifications

II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS P2L97A Motherboard

The ASUS P2L97A is carefully designed for the discriminating PC user who wants many features processed by the fastest CPU. This motherboard:

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

•AGP Chipset: Provides ATI 3D RAGE Graphics Accelerator chipset, with on- board video controller and 4MB of 64-bit SGRAM memory. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) features high performance, component level interconnectivity tar- geted at 3D graphical display applications.

•AMC Connector: Supports ATI Multimedia Channel (AMC) for additional ca- pabilities, such as optional TV tuner card available for video capture, video cap- ture, videophone, TV overlay, or TV tuner applications.

•Easy Installation: Supports autodetection of hard drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives, expansion cards, and other de- vices virtually automatic.

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

•Super Multi-I/O:Provides one high-speed UART compatible serial port and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.

•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)

•CPU Built-In Level 2 Cache: 512KB or 256KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Pentium II Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.

•Versatile Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support (8, 16, 32, 64, or 128MB) 168-pin SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 384MB.

•PCI Bus Master IDE Controller: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two chan- nels, supports 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. 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 supports IDE CD-ROM or SCSI device boot-up.

•Performance: 528MB/s data transfer rate using SDRAM, 33MB/s IDE transfer rate using Bus Master UltraDMA/33 IDE, concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers.

•SCSI Bios: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware.

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ASUS P2L97A User’s Manual