Asus MEB - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS MEB User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA
TURES
The ASUS MEB Motherboard
The ASUS MEB motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who
wants many intelligent features in a small package.
•
Intel Processor Support: Supports Intel’s Celeron processor designed for the
Socket 370 and packaged in Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA).
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front
side bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz internal bus to
100MHz.
• Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Programmable BIOS (Flash
EEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hard-
ware-based virus protection, and autodetection of most devices for virtually au-
tomatic 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 critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed
requirement.
• AGP Slot: Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance,
component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications sup-
porting a 1X or 2X mode bus.
• Onboard Audio (optional): Features an ESS Solo-1 32-bit PCI audio onboard.
Includes a complete online help to guide you through the audio software.
• PCI & ISA Expansion: Provides four 32-bit PCI expansion slots and three 16-
bit ISA expansion slots.
• PC Health Monitoring (optional): Provides an easier way to examine and man-
age system status information such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures,
and fan status through the onboard hardware ASIC and the bundled LDCM by
Intel or PC Probe from ASUS.
• Wake-On-LAN Connector: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through an op-
tional ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet card (See APPENDIX) or a similar ethernet
card.
• SB-Link™: Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, us-
ing Intel’s PC-PCI and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compatible PCI
audio cards.
• Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one par-
allel 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.)
• Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that support 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, CD-ROM, and LS-
120 drives.