2.FEATURES

•Wake-On-Ring Connector: Supports Wake-On-Ring activity through a PCI modem card that supports a WOR connector.

•PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easy way to examine and manage system status information, such as CPU and systerm voltages, temperatures, and fan status through the onboard hardware ASUS ASIC and the bundled ASUS PC Probe.

•SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physi- cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices.

•PCI/ISA Expansion Slots: Provides six 32-bit PCI (Rev. 2.2) expansion slots, which can support Bus Master PCI cards, such as SCSI or LAN cards (PCI supports up to 133MB/s maximum throughput) and one 16-bit ISA slot.

•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.

•Enhanced ACPI: Programmable BIOS (Flash EEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility and autodetection of most devices for vir- tually automatic setup.

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

•Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas- ter busses to the memory and processor.

•Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium® III / II processor pack-

aged in a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC2/SECC) or a Celeron™ processor packaged in a Single Edge Processor Package (SEPP).

•Smart BIOS: 2MB firmware provides Vcore and CPU/SDRAM frequency ad- justments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD/Floppy boot selection.

•Integrated Infrared Support: Integrated IR supports an optional remote con- trol package for wireless interfacing with external peripherals, personal gad- gets, or an optional remote controller.

2. FEATURES

Specifications

 

 

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