Asus P5A-B - Manual (Page 8)

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II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA
TURES
ASUS P5A-B 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, AMD K5 ™ /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 ® 90–233MHz (P55C-MMX ™ , P54C/P54CS).
• Level 2 Cache SRAM/Tag RAM: Supports 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-in hardware-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 95MHz/100MHz bus speed requirement.
• AGP Slot: Supports AGP cards for high performance, component level interconnec-
tion targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• ISA Audio (optional): Features C-Media’s 3D positional sound chip, which pro-
vides such cutting edge features as wavetable music synthesizer, 3D surround audio,
and SPDIF I/O interface in addition to the usual compatibility with games written
for both Windows
® 95/98 and DOS ® .
• UltraDMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller
with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports
UltraDMA/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: 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.