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PB ASUS P2L97-DS User’s Manual
Features of the ASUS P2L97-DS Motherboard
The ASUS P2L97-DS is carefully designed for the discriminating PC user who wants
smart features processed by the fastest CPU. This motherboard:
• Dual Processor Support: Dual Intel Pentium
®
II (233MHz–333MHz) processors.
• Intel Chipset: Features Intel’s 440LX AGPset with I/O subsystems.
• Adaptec SCSI Chipset: Supports an optional Adaptec’s 7880 Ultra-Fast/Wide
SCSI chipset.
• Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS,
offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based
virus protection throgh Trend ChipAway Virus, and autodetection of most de-
vices for virtually automatic setup.
• AGP: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, compo-
nent level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• Wake-on-LAN: Supports Wake-on-LAN activity with special network cards,
such as the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.
• ISA & PCI Expansion Slots: Provides two 16-bit ISA and four 32-bit PCI slots.
• 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)
• Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE control-
ler with two connectors that supports 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 and CD-ROM drives. Two
floppy drives of either 5.25inch or 3.5inch (1.44MB or 2.88MB) are also sup-
ported without 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.
• Multi-Cache: Supports a Pentium® II processor with either 0, 256, or 512KB
Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.
• Versatile Memory Support: Equipped with four DIMM sockets to support [8,
16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 (EDO only) MB] 168-pin SDRAM/EDO memory mod-
ules up to 1 GB.
• IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.
II. FEATURES
Specifications
II. FEATURES