Asus P5LD2 Deluxe (Intel 945P)
Expansion options
On Asus P5LD2 Deluxe, there is the ICH7R south bridge with a radiator. Therefore, the board supports for 4 SerialATA II ports and allows merging disks into RAID arrays of levels 0,1,5 and 10 (MatrixRAID).
Besides, two more SerialATA II devices can be plugged to the Sil3132R controller by Silicon Image can be plugged in.
This controller supports RAID arrays of the following levels: RAID0 and RAID1. One of the ports is brought to the board's rear panel!
But that is not yet all about plugging in hard disks! On the board, there is a dual-channel ParallelATA ITE8211 controller to which 4 disks can be plugged in.
Therefore, to the two ParallelATA hard disks of the integrated controller you can add 4 ParallelATA and 6 SerialATA II disks. Therefore, as many as 12 hard disks altogether can be plugged in to Asus P5LD2 Deluxe:
Then, there are eight USB2.0 ports onboard. Four ports of them are on the rear panel, with 4 more plugged in via brackets (the board comes bundled with 1 bracket for 2 ports).
Besides, Asus P5LD2 supports the other type of serial bus - the IEEE1394 ("Firewire"). For that, there is a Texas Instruments' TSB43AB22A controller installed onboard.
Therefore, the board offers support for 2 Firewire ports: one mounted on the board's rear panel, with the other connected through a bracket (available in the package bundle).
Then, Asus P5LD2 offers 8-channel audio - Intel High Definition Audio,with ALC882M used as the codec.
A couple of words on the overclocking: the board uses a high-speed Marvell 88E8053 (Gigabit Ethernet) controller connected to the PCI Express bus.
The board's rear panel is almost of standard configuration.
The only deviation is in the lack of COM ports: instead of the first one, there is an optical and one coaxial SP-DIF outputs, and in the stead of the second - a SerialATA II port. At the same time, one COM is implemented as a bracket (available in the bundle) which is plugged in to the connector on the board's left-hand edge.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
There is only one jumper on Asus P5LD2: the CLRTC1 is used to clear the BIOS settings (near the BIOS chip).
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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