Asus P/I-P65UP5/C-PKND - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P/I-P65UP5 User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features of the ASUS P/I-P65UP5 Baseboard
The P/I-P65UP5 is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants great
versatility in a computer system. This baseboard:
• Easy Installation: Is equipped with BIOS that supports autodetection of hard
drives and Plug and Play to make setup of hard drives and expansion cards
virtually automatic.
• 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.)
• Versatile Processor Support: Supports dual 75–233MHz Pentium, 150–
200MHz Pentium Pro, 233–333MHz Pentium II processors.
• Versatile DRAM Memory Support: Supports eight 72-pin SIMMs of 4MB,
8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB to form a memory size between 8MB to 512MB.
Supports both Fast Page Mode (FPM), and Extended Data Output (EDO) SIMMs.
Burst Extended Data Output (BEDO) supported with the C-P6ND CPU card.
• ISA and PCI Expansion Slots: Provides three 16-bit ISA slots, four 32-bit PCI slots, and
one PCI/MediaBus shared slot for either a standard PCI card or ASUS MediaBus Card.
• ASUS MediaBus: Features an expansion slot extension shared with PCI Slot 5
for an optional high-performance expansion card, which includes two functions
in one easy-to-install card.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART-compatible serial ports and
one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. Supports two of either 5.25- or
3.5-inch disk drives (1.44MB or 2.88MB) without an external card.
• 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 Japanese standard “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.
• Optional IrDA Module: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless
file transfers and communication.
• SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard firmware.
• Intelligence: Supports Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Temperature Moni-
toring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert, and
Virus Write Protection through the optional onboard LM78 Hardware Monitor
and Intel
® LANDesk Client Manager (LDCM) software.
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