Asus P2B - Manual (Page 8)

ASUS P2B User’s Manual 8
Features of the ASUS P2B Motherboard
The ASUS P2B is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants ad-
vanced features processed by the fastest CPU.
• Multi-Speed: Supports Intel Pentium ® III (450MHz and faster), Pentium ® II (233MHz
to 450MHz), and Celeron TM (266MHz and faster) processors.
• Multi-Cache: Supports processors with 512, 128, or 0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache.
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-side bus
(FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66-MHz internal bus speed to 100MHz.
• Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offering
enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based virus protection through
Trend ChipAway Virus, 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 critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement.
• Thermal Sensor Connector with Optional Sensor: Accurately detects the CPU tem-
perature of processors with the ASUS Smart Fan or the Intel boxed processor heatsink
with fan when connected to an ASUS P2T-Cable.
• Wake-On-LAN: Supports Wake-On–LAN activity with special network cards, such as
the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.
• AGP Slot: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, component
level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• SB-Link™: Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, using Intel’s
PC-PCI DMA and serialized IRQ protocols, to AWE64D or compatible PCI audio cards.
• SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physically
transport commands and information between SMBus devices.
• PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides four 32-bit PCI and three 16-bit ISA slots.
• Intelligence: Supports Keyboard Power Up, Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Tem-
perature Monitoring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert,
Intel LANDesk Client Manager (LDCM), and ASUS PC Probe software.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one paral-
lel 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 compat-
ibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)
• Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control-
ler with two connectors that support 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, CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives.
• Universal Retention Mechanism: Supports a Pentium ® II processor packaged in a Single
Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC/SECC2) or a Celeron TM processor packaged in a Single
Edge Processor Package (SEPP).
• SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI cards through onboard SYMBIOS firmware.
• IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.
• Concurrent PCI: Allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master buses to memory to CPU.
II. FEATURES
Specifications
II. FEA
TURES