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Features of the ASUS P2L97 Motherboard

The ASUS P2L97 is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many
features processed by the fastest CPU. This motherboard:
• Versatile Processor Support: Intel Pentium
• Intel Chipset: Features Intel's 440LX AGPset with I/O subsystems.
• Easy Installation: Is equipped with BIOS that supports auto detection of hard
drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives,
expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic.
• ISA & PCI Expansion Slots: Provides one 16-bit ISA, four 32-bit PCI slots, and
one ISA/PCI shared slot.
• 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)
• PCI Bus Master IDE Controller: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels,
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. Two floppy
drives of either 5.25inch or 3.5inch (1.44MB or 2.88MB) are also supported with-
out an external card. 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.
• CPU Built-In Level 2 Cache: 512KB or 256KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache
in the Pentium II Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.
• Versatile Memory Support: Is equipped with three DIMM sockets to support
(8, 16, 32, 64, or 128MB) 168-pin SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 384MB.
• SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard
SYMBIOS firmware.
• IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.
• Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI master
busses to memory to CPU.
• AGP: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, compo-
nent level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• 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
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and Intel LANDesk Client Manager (LDCM) software.
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II (233MHz–333MHz) processor.