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8 ASUS TX97-X User’s Manual
Features of the ASUS TX97-X Motherboard
The ASUS TX97-X is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants
many features in a small package. This motherboard:
• Intel Chipset: Features Intel’s 430TX PCIset with I/O subsystems.
• Versatile Processor Support: Intel Pentium
®
75-233MHz (P55C-MMX
™
, P54C/
P54CS), IBM
®
/Cyrix
®
6x86-PR166+ (Rev 2.7 or later), IBM
®
/Cyrix
®
6x86MX
™
(PR166 & faster), AMD-K5
™
(PR75-PR133), AMD-K6
™
(PR166 & faster).
• Versatile Memory Support: Is equipped with three DIMM sockets to support
(8, 16, 32, 64, or 128MB) 168-pin SDRAM memory modules up to 256MB.
• 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: Provides expansion for three 16-bit ISA cards, three
32-bit PCI cards, and 1 shared expansion for either a PCI or an ISA card.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART-compatible serial ports and
one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.
• 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 chan-
nels, 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.
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.
• Level 2 Cache: 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM onboard.
• Optional IrDA: Supports and optional IrDA receiver/transmitter device.
• Symbios SCSI BIOS: Has onboard firmware to support optional ASUS SCSI
controller cards.
• Optional Audio: Has optional onboard Creative Labs
®
Audio with 3D sound.
II. FEATURES
(Features)
II. FEATURES