Asus P2E-M - Manual (Page 8)

8 ASUS P2E-M User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA
TURES
The ASUS P2E-M Motherboard
The ASUS P2E-M motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user
who wants many intelligent features in a small package.
• Multi-Speed: Supports the Intel Pentium ® II (233MHz–333MHz) and Celeron™
(266MHz and faster) processors.
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440EX AGPset, the first AGPset optimized for the
Intel Celeron™ processor. Includes I/O subsystems.
• Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Programmable BIOS (Flash EEPROM),
offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based
virus protection, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.
• Versatile Memory: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support 8MB–128MB
168-pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 256MB.
• AGP Slot: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, com-
ponent level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• ISA & PCI Expansion: Provides two 16-bit ISA expansion slots and two 32-
bit PCI expansion slots.
• Wake on LAN: Supports Wake on LAN activity through optional ASUS
PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet card.
• 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
allows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher
level of compatibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)
• Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control-
ler with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, sup-
ports Ultra DMA/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.
• Multi-Cache: Supports a Pentium ® II processor with either 512KB, 256KB, or
0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.
• Easy Installation: Equipped with BIOS that supports autodetection of hard
drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives,
expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.
• Audio: Provides optional ISA audio chipset with 3D surround and/or optional
Yamaha S-YXG50 SoftSynth (Soft Synthesizer™/software wavetable synthesizer).
Includes complete online help to guide you through the audio software.
• IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.