Overview
The P2B board contains one Slot 1 connector, which
supports Pentium II and Celeron S.E.C. cartridge processors. The expansion
slots consist of three dedicated 32-bit PCI slots, two dedicated 16-bit
ISA slots, one shared PCI/ISA slot, and a standard 2x AGP bus for the graphics
card. The memory subsystem contains three 168-pin DIMM slots and supports
up to 768MB of 100MHz SDRAM system memory. Memory modules must be 3.3v
unbuffered DIMMs. The on-board PCI IDE controller has two UltraDMA/33 IDE
ports that will support up to four IDE devices and the LS-120MB floppy
disk drive.
There is also support for an ATAPI EIDE CD-ROM.
The on-board I/O consists of one floppy port up to 2.88MB with Mode
3 support, two serial ports that are 16550 Fast UART compatible, and one
parallel port with EPP and ECP support. The ATX double decker I/O shield
consists of 2 USB port connectors, one PS/2 keyboard port, one PS/2 mouse
port, the parallel ports and the two serial ports. There is also a 3V,
5V, and 12V 20-Pin ATX power connector with Soft Power support. The BIOS
is an Award BIOS on a 2MB Flash EEPROM and features Plug and Play, ACPI,
and DMI. The motherboard comes in an ATX form.
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