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8 ASUS TX97-E User’s Manual

II. FEATURES

(Features)

II. FEATURES

Features of the ASUS TX97-E Motherboard

The ASUS TX97-E is carefully designed for the demanding PC user who wants

many intelligent features in a small package. This motherboard:

• Intel Chipset: Features Intel’s 430TX PCIset with I/O subsystems.

• Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed 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 two DIMM sockets to support

8-128MB 168-pin 3.3Volt SDRAM/EDO memory modules up to 256MB. Is

also equipped with four SIMM sockets to support 4-64MB 72-pin Fast Page

Mode (FPM) or Extended Data Out (EDO) memory modules up to 256MB.

SIMMs and DIMMs cannot be used at the same time.

• 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.

• Dual Power Supply: Has both AT and ATX power connectors onboard to sup-

port an AT or ATX power supply with soft-on/off features.

• ISA and PCI Expansion Slots: Provides three 16-bit ISA slots, three 32-bit

PCI slots, and one PCI/MediaBus/ISA shared slot which allows the use of either

a standard PCI card, an ASUS MediaBus card, or an ISA card.

• ASUS MediaBus: Features an expansion slot extension shared with PCI Slot 4

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. 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)

• 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 PS/2 Mouse, USB, IrDA Connector: Supports an optional cable and bracket

set to mount the connectors to an unused expansion slot on the system chassis. A

second IrDA connector is available for a standard individual infrared cable set.

• SCSI BIOS: Has firmware to support optional ASUS SCSI controller cards.

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