Asus MEZ MEZ User Manual - Page 8

II. FEATURES Features II. FEATURES The ASUS MEZ Motherboard The ASUS MEZ motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many intelligent features in a small package. • Intel Processor Support: Supports Intel's Celeron processor designed for the Socket 370 and packaged in Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA). • Intel AGPset: Features Intel's 440ZX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front side bus (FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66MHz internal bus to 100MHz. • Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Programmable BIOS (Flash EEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based virus protection, 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 256MB. These new SDRAMs are necessary to meet the critical enhanced 100MHz bus speed requirement. • AGP Slot: Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications supporting a 1X or 2X mode bus. • Onboard Audio (optional): Features an ESS Solo-1 32-bit PCI audio onboard. Includes a complete online help to guide you through the audio software. • PCI & ISA Expansion: Provides four 32-bit PCI expansion slots and three 16bit ISA expansion slots. • PC Health Monitoring (optional): Provides an easier way to examine and manage system status information such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fan status through the onboard hardware ASIC and the bundled LDCM by Intel or PC Probe from ASUS. • Wake-On-LAN Header: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through an optional ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet card (See APPENDIX) or a similar ethernet card. • 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. • 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.) • Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that support 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, CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives. • Easy Installation: Equipped with BIOS that supports autodetection of hard drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices to make setup of hard drives, expansion cards, and other devices virtually automatic. 8 ASUS MEZ User's Manual