Asus A7V User Manual

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Contents

ASUS A7V User’s Manual 92. FEATURES2. FEATURESSpecifications• Wake-On-Ring Connector: Supports Wake-On-Ring activity through a PCImodem card that supports a WOR connector.• USB: Supports up to 7 USB ports, two on the back panel and five midboard, formore peripheral connectivity options.• PC Health Monitoring: Provides an easy way to examine and manage systemstatus information, such as CPU and system voltages, temperatures, and fanstatus through the onboard hardware ASUS ASIC and the bundled ASUS PCProbe.• SMBus: Features the System Management Bus interface, which is used to physi-cally transport commands and information between SMBus devices.• PCI/AMR Expansion Slots: Provides five 32-bit PCI (Rev. 2.2) expansionslots, which can support Bus Master PCI cards, such as SCSI or LAN cards (PCIsupports up to 133MB/s maximum throughput), and one Audio Modem Riser(AMR) slot (shared), which supports a very affordable audio and/or modemriser card.• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports andone parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities.• Enhanced ACPI & Anti-Boot Virus Protection: Programmable BIOS (FlashEEPROM), offering enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in firm-ware-based virus protection, and autodetection of most devices for virtually au-tomatic setup.• Concurrent PCI: Concurrent PCI allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI mas-ter busses to the memory and processor.• Smart BIOS: 2Mb firmware provides Vcore and CPU/SDRAM frequency ad-justments, boot block write protection, and HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD/Floppy bootselection. Power supply is autodetected to enable/disable suspend-to-RAM.• Integrated Infrared (IrDA) Support: Integrated IR supports an optional re-mote control package for wireless interfacing with external peripherals, per-sonal gadgets, or an optional remote controller.• Desktop Management Interface (DMI): Supports DMI through BIOS, whichallows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higherlevel of compatibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.)• Promise PCI-ATA100 Support: Provides optional support to PCI-ATA/100controller to provide Ultra DMA/100 solutions.• Color-coded Connectors: To enhance user accessibility to system components andto meet PC 99 compliancy, major connectors in this motherboard are color-coded.