Asus P65UP5-P6ND User Manual - Page 8

II. FEATURES (Features) II. FEATURES Features of the ASUS P/I-P65UP5 Baseboard The P/I-P65UP5 is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants great versatility in a computer system. This baseboard: • Easy Installation: Is equipped with BIOS that supports autodetection of hard drives and Plug and Play to make setup of hard drives and expansion cards virtually automatic. • 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.) • Versatile Processor Support: Supports dual 75-233MHz Pentium, 150- 200MHz Pentium Pro, 233-333MHz Pentium II processors. • Versatile DRAM Memory Support: Supports eight 72-pin SIMMs of 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB to form a memory size between 8MB to 512MB. Supports both Fast Page Mode (FPM), and Extended Data Output (EDO) SIMMs. Burst Extended Data Output (BEDO) supported with the C-P6ND CPU card. • ISA and PCI Expansion Slots: Provides three 16-bit ISA slots, four 32-bit PCI slots, and one PCI/MediaBus shared slot for either a standard PCI card or ASUS MediaBus Card. • ASUS MediaBus: Features an expansion slot extension shared with PCI Slot 5 for an optional high-performance expansion card, which includes two functions in one easy-to-install card. • Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART-compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. Supports two of either 5.25- or 3.5-inch disk drives (1.44MB or 2.88MB) without an external card. • PCI Bus Master IDE Controller: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels, 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 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. • Optional IrDA Module: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless file transfers and communication. • SCSI BIOS: Supports optionalASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard firmware. • Intelligence: Supports Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm, Temperature Monitoring and Alert, Voltage Monitoring and Alert, System Resources Alert, and Virus Write Protection through the optional onboard LM78 Hardware Monitor and Intel® LANDesk Client Manager (LDCM) software. 8 ASUS P/I-P65UP5 User's Manual