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8 ASUS P2B-D/P2B-DS User’s Manual
Features
The ASUS P2B-D/P2B-DS motherboards are carefully designed for the demanding PC user
who wants advanced features processed by the fastest CPU.
• Multi-Speed: Supports Dual Intel Pentium
®
II processors from 233MHz to 450MHz.
• 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 ChipAwayVirus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with four DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100-
compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 1GB. These new SDRAMs are
necessary to meet the enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement.
• Wake-On-LAN: Supports Wake-On–LAN activity with special network cards, such as
the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.
• Adaptec SCSI Chipset: Features Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset (optional) that
supports a combination of 8-bit and 16-bit Ultra2, Ultra, and single-ended or standard
SCSI devices and the AIC-3860 transceiver chipset (optional) that bridges the compat-
ibility gap between these mixed environments without affecting system performance by
taking advantage of the benefits of low-voltage differential (LVD) technology.
• 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 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 two 16-bit ISA PCI slots.
• Intelligence: Supports Keyboard Power Up, Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Tem-
perature Monitoring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert,
and Virus Write Protection through the onboard Hardware Monitor, Intel LANDesk Cli-
ent 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/Floppy: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, supports
UltraDMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports En-
hanced IDE devices. Two floppy drives of either 5.25inch or 3.5inch (1.44MB or 2.88MB)
are also supported without an external card. Supports Japanese standard “Floppy 3 mode”
(3.5-inch disk drive: 1.44MB, 1.2MB, 720KB) and LS-120 floppy disk drives (3.5-inch disk
drive: 120 MB). BIOS supports IDE CD-ROM or SCSI device boot-up.
• 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. FEATURES