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II. FEATURES Features II. FEATURES The ASUS P2E-M Motherboard The ASUS P2E-M motherboard is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants many intelligent features in a small package. • Multi-Speed: Supports the Intel Pentium® II (233MHz-333MHz) and Celeron™ (266MHz and faster) processors. • Intel AGPset: Features Intel's 440EX AGPset, the first AGPset optimized for the Intel Celeron™ processor. Includes I/O subsystems. • EnhancedACPI &Anti-BootVirus 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. • Versatile Memory: Equipped with two DIMM sockets to support 8MB-128MB 168-pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 256MB. • AGP Slot: Supports Accelerated Graphics Port cards for high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications. • ISA & PCI Expansion: Provides two 16-bit ISA expansion slots and two 32bit PCI expansion slots. • Wake on LAN: Supports Wake on LAN activity through optional ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet card. • 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 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" (3.5inch 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 512KB, 256KB, or 0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge. • 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. • Audio: Provides optional ISA audio chipset with 3D surround and/or optional Yamaha S-YXG50 SoftSynth (Soft Synthesizer™/software wavetable synthesizer). Includes complete online help to guide you through the audio software. • IrDA: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface. 8 ASUS P2E-M User's Manual