II. FEATURES
Special Features:•Enhanced ACPI: Features a programmable BIOS, offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility,
•Desktop Management Interface (DMI):Supports DMI through BIOS, which allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of compatibility. (Requires
•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’98 Compliant: Both the BIOS and hardware levels of ASUS smart series of motherboards meet PC’98 compliancy. The new PC’98 requirements for sys- tems and components are based on the following
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•Symbios SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS Symbios SCSI controller cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware.
Performance Features:•Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas- ter busses to the memory and to the 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 transfer up to 33MB/s. The best of all is that this new technol- ogy is compatible with existing
•SDRAM Optimized Performance:Supports the new generation memory - Syn- chronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) which increases the data transfer rate from 528MB/s max using EDO memory to 800MB/s max using
SDRAM.Specifications
II. FEATURES
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