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8 ASUS P5A User’s Manual
II. FEATURES
Features
II. FEA TURES
ASUS P5A Motherboard
• ALi AGPset: ALi
®
(Acer Laboratories Inc.) Aladdin V AGPset with support for a
100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), and all current
Socket 7 processors.
• Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support: AMD K6
™
-III/400 & faster, AMD K6
™
-
2/266 & faster, AMD K6
™
/166 & faster, AMD K5
™
/90–133, IBM
®
/Cyrix
®
6x86MX
™
/
MII
™
(PR166 & faster), IDT WinChip 2
™
/240 & faster, IBM
®
/Cyrix
®
6x86-PR166+
(Rev 2.7 or later), Intel Pentium
®
90–233MHz (P55C-MMX
™
, P54C/P54CS).
• Level 2 Cache SRAM/Tag RAM: Features 512KB/1MB pipelined-burst SRAM/L2
memory cache and integrated Tag RAM to make using the 100MHz bus speed possible.
• Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offer-
ing enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based virus pro-
tection through Trend ChipAwayVirus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually
automatic setup.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100-
compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 768MB. These new SDRAMs
are necessary to meet the enhanced 95MHz/100MHz bus speed requirement.
• AGP Slot: Supports AGP cards for high performance, component level interconnec-
tion targeted at 3D graphical display applications.
• PCI Audio (optional): Features ESS 32-bit PCI audio onboard.
• Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller
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. Supports two
drives of either 5.25-inch (360KB or 1.2MB) or 3.5-inch (720KB, 1.44MB, or
2.88MB) disk drives. Supports Japanese “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.
• Wake-On-LAN Connector: Supports Wake-On–LAN activity with special network
cards, such as the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.
• PC Health Monitoring (optional): Provides a convenient utility to monitor your
system’s vital components/activities, such as fan rotations, voltages, and temperatures.
• 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 al-
lows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of
compatibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)
• USB, PS/2 Mouse, IrDA Connector: Supports an optional cable and bracket set to
mount the connectors to an unused expansion slot on the system chassis. A second
IrDA connector is available for a standard individual infrared cable set.