Specifications

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2.FEATURES

2.1.2Special Features

•ACPI Ready: Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) provides more Energy Saving Features for operating systems that support OS Direct Power Management (OSPM) functionality. With these features implemented in the OS, PCs can be ready around the clock, yet satisfy all the energy saving standards. To fully utilize the benefits of ACPI, an ACPI-supported OS such as Windows 98 must be used.

•Suspend and Go: Suspend-to-RAM (STR) provides maximum power savings (average of 5 watts) as an alternative to leaving the computer ON and QuickStartTM so that you do not fall asleep waiting for system bootup (Suspend-to-RAM re- quires OS support and does not support ISA cards; ISA cards may fail to work coming out of STR mode).

•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’99 Compliant: Both the BIOS and hardware levels of ASUS smart series motherboards meet PC’99 compliancy. The new PC’99 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. Color-coded connectors and descriptive icons make identification easy as required by PC’99.

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

2.1.3 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 transfers up to 33MB/s.

•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.

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