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To: Street Walker who wrote (1062)	6/4/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>> So the P2B-L has a chip that is equivalent to a PCI slot, but does not come with an ethernet card? Am I reading you correctly?<< Yes, the P2B-L motherboard has built in support for ethernet and does not use an ISA or a PCI slot to provide ethernet capability.

To: Street Walker who wrote (1062)	6/4/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave, Now I know what you mean. I got confused when you wrote Asus P2B-NIC combo -being able to choose your own card and take it with you. I thought you were refering to the P2B-L, but now realize you were refering to P2B. BTW, what kind of cases support Dual Motherboards with 9 PCI slots? Thanks, S.W.

To: Street Walker who wrote (1062)	6/4/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sorry, I was ambiguous. The Intel chip offers no more resource overhead and no less network bandwidth than were it a PCI network card. I believe, but am not certain, that it is recognized by the system in the exact same manner that an Intel fast ethernet card would be recognized. I also strongly suspect that it could be disabled in the bios, should one want to do this. As of recently, only the P2B board's manual has been posted to the Asus web site. When the others are also posted, we may be able to verify this. I haven't tried to reach tech support on the matter--Rick Lindsay (see my earlier post) or perhaps one of the posters to this thread might know. "So the P2B-L has a chip that is equivalent to a PCI slot, but does not come with an ethernet card? Am I reading you correctly?" Change that to "an NIC that resides in a PCI slot," and this should statement should be true (minus possible differences in overhead, since the board wouldn't have to assign resources to both the ethernet chip on an NIC and its slot, but just the chip. I hope that helps clear it up. Regards, Dave