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Special Features
• ACPI Ready: Features ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
which is implemented on all ASUS smart series motherboards. ACPI provides
more Energy Saving Features for future operating systems (OS) supporting OS
Direct Power Management (OSPM) functionality. With these features imple-
mented in the OS, PCs can be ready around the clock, yet satisfy all the energy
saving standards. To fully utilize the benefits of ACPI, an ACPI-supported OS
such as the successor of Windows 95 must be used.
• 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.)
• Easy Installation: Incorporates BIOS that supports autodetection of hard disk
drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard disk drives,
expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.
• Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS
(Flash EEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-
in hardware-based virus protection, and autodetection of most devices for virtu-
ally automatic setup.
• PC '98 Compliant: Meets PC '98 compliancy in both the BIOS and hardware
levels of ASUS smart series motherboards. The new PC '98 requirements for
systems and components are based on the following high-level goals: Support
for Plug and Play compatibility and power management for configuring and
managing all system components, and 32-bit device drivers and installation pro-
cedures for Windows 95/98/NT.
• Bundled PC-cillin: Automatically detects and removes all viruses while your work.
Performance
• Concurrent PCI: Supports concurrent PCI, allowing multiple PCI transfers
from PCI master buses to memory to CPU.
• Double the IDE Transfer Speed: Supports Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE,
which can imporve data transfers up to 33MB/s. The best of all is that this new
technology is compatible with existing ATA-2 IDE specs so there is no need to
upgrade current hard drives or cables.
• SDRAM Optimized Performance: Supports the new generation memory, Syn-
chronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), which increases the
data transfer rate from 264MB/s max (using EDO memory) to 528MB/s max
(using SDRAM).
II. FEATURES
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