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The ASUS MEZ Motherboard

The ASUS MEZ 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 440ZX 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 256MB. 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 Header: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through an optional
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 BM 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.
• 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.
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II. FEATURES
ASUS MEZ User's Manual