ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi (Intel P35)
Expansion options
On ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi, there is the ICH9R south bridge with
a radiator. Therefore, the board supports 6 SerialATA II ports and
allows merging disks into RAID arrays of levels 0,1,5, and 10.
Besides, two extra SerialATA II devices can be plugged in to
the JMB363 controller by JMicron (the chipset is in the upper left
corner of the board).
Both the ports are brought to the rear panel of the board. The
same controller provides support for one ParallelATA channel.
Therefore, as many as 10 hard disks (8 SATA + 2 PATA) altogether can be
plugged in to ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi.
Then, there are only 10 USB 2.0 ports (of twelve USB 2.0 ports
supported by ICH9R) on the board. Six ports of them are on the rear
panel, with 4 more plugged in with a plate (the board comes bundled
with 1 plate for 2 ports). The reduction in the number of USB ports is
related to the installation of a Wi-Fi module.
Besides, ASUS P5K supports the IEEE1394 ("Firewire") bus. For
that, there is an additional FX3227-100 controller made by Agere.
Therefore, the board offers support for 2 Firewire ports: one
mounted on the rear panel, with the other one connected with a plate
(available in the package bundle).
ASUS P5K also offers 8-channel integrated Intel High
Definition Audio, with AD1988B chip used as the codec.
A few words on the network support: the board uses two
high-speed LAN controllers: Marvell 88E8056 (Gigabit Ethernet)
connected to the PCI Express (x1) bus,
and RTL8110SC (Gigabit Ethernet) connected to the PCI bus.
The board's rear panel is of a rather nonstandard
configuration.
In particular, engineers at ASUS have completely given up
support for the LPT port and COM ports (one COM port is implemented
with a plate but it is missing in the bundle). Missing is also a PS/2
connector to plug in a mouse. On the other hand, USB 2.0 ports are in
abundance; there are two SerialATA II and one Firewire, as well as an
optical and coaxial SP-DIF output.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
There is the only connector on ASUS P5K: CLRTC - one to clear
the CMOS settings (near the battery).
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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