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II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS TX97-XE Motherboard

The ASUS TX97-XE is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many features in a small package. This motherboard:

•Intel Chipset: Features Intel’s 430TX PCIset with I/O subsystems.

•Versatile Processor Support: Intel Pentium® 75-233MHz (P55C-MMX™ , P54C/ P54CS), IBM® /Cyrix® 6x86-PR166+ (Rev 2.7 or later), IBM® /Cyrix® 6x86MX™ (PR166 & faster), AMD-K5™(PR75-PR133), AMD-K6™(PR166 & faster).

•Versatile Memory Support: Is equipped with two DIMM sockets to support 8-128MB 168-pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 256MB. Is also equipped with four SIMM sockets to support 4-64MB 72-pin Fast Page Mode (FPM) or Extended Data Out (EDO) memory modules up to 256MB. SIMMs and DIMMs cannot be used at the same time.

•Easy Installation: Is equipped with BIOS that supports auto detection of hard drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives, expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.

•ISA & PCI Expansion: Provides four 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.

•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)

•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.

•Level 2 Cache: 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM onboard.•Optional IrDA: Supports and optional IrDA receiver/transmitter device.•Optional Audio: Has optional onboard Creative Labs® Audio with 3D sound.

•Optional IrDA Connector: Supports an optional infrared port module for wire- less interface.

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ASUS TX97-XE User’s Manual