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II. FEATURES

ASUS P5A Motherboard

•ALi AGPset: ALi® (Acer Laboratories Inc.) Aladdin V AGPset with support for a 100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), and all current Socket 7 processors.

•Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support: AMD K6™ -III/400 & faster, AMD K6™ - 2/266 & faster, AMD K6™ /166 & faster, AMDK5™ /90–133, IBM® /Cyrix® 6x86MX™ /

M II™ (PR166 & faster), IDT WinChip 2™

/240 & faster, IBM® /Cyrix® 6x86-PR166+

(Rev 2.7 or later), Intel Pentium

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90–233MHz (P55C-MMX, P54C/P54CS).

•Level 2 Cache SRAM/Tag RAM: Features 512KB/1MB pipelined-burst SRAM/L2 memory cache and integrated Tag RAM to make using the 100MHz bus speed possible.

•Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offer- ing enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-inhardware-based virus pro- tection through Trend ChipAwayVirus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.

•PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100- compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 768MB. These new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the enhanced 95MHz/100MHz bus speed requirement.

•AGP Slot: Supports AGP cards for high performance, component level interconnec- tion targeted at 3D graphical display applications.

•PCI Audio (optional): Features ESS 32-bit PCI audio onboard.

•Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: 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 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.

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

•PC Health Monitoring (optional): Provides a convenient utility to monitor your system’s vital components/activities, such as fan rotations, voltages, and temperatures.

•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 al- lows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compatibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)

•USB, PS/2 Mouse, IrDA Connector: Supports an optional cable and bracket set to mount the connectors to an unused expansion slot on the system chassis. A second IrDA connector is available for a standard individual infrared cable set.

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