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8 ASUS P2B98-XV User’s Manual
Features of the ASUS P2B98-XV Motherboard
The ASUS P2B98-XV is carefully designed for the discriminating PC user who
wants smart features processed by the fastest CPU.
• Versatile Processor Support: Intel Pentium
®
II (233MHz–450MHz) processor.
• Intel AGPset: Features Intel’s 440BX AGPset with I/O subsystems and front-side bus
(FSB) platform, which boosts the traditional 66-MHz internal bus speed to 100MHz.
• Multi-Cache: Supports a Pentium
®
II processor with either 512KB, 128KB, or
0KB Pipelined Burst Level 2 cache in the Single Edge Contact (SEC) cartridge.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support (8,
16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) 168-pin SDRAM memory modules up to 768MB.
• Wake-On-LAN Connector: Supports Wake-On-LAN activity through optional
ASUS PCI-L101 Fast Ethernet card.
• Programmable Flash ROM: 2Mbit programmable bios (Flash EEPROM), offer-
ing built-in, hardware-based virus protection and enhanced ACPI for Windows 98
compatibility, autodetection of hard drives, PS/2 mouse, and Plug and Play devices
for virtually automatic setup of hard drives, expansion cards, and other devices.
• Onboard AGP VGA: Features ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X VGA chipset
onboard with sideband addressing and 8MB SDRAM graphics memory.
• SB-Link™: Features Creative’s SB-Link™, allowing SB16 compatibility, using Intel’s
PC-PCI technology, to AWE64D or compatible PCI audio cards.
• PCI & ISA Expansion Slots: Provides four 32-bit PCI and two 16-bit ISA slots .
• 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.)
• Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE
controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels,
supports UltraDMA/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, and
LS-120 drives.
• SCSI BIOS: Supports optional ASUS SCSI controller cards through onboard
SYMBIOS firmware.
• IrDA Connector: Supports an optional infrared port module for wireless interface.
• Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas-
ter busses to memory to CPU.
II. FEATURES
Specifications
II. FEA
TURES