Acer Altos G500 manual Overview, Processors, Memory

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Overview

The Acer Altos G500 server model utilizes a PCI bus based dual- processor mainboard built on an ATX baseboard. It comes with a dual FC-PGA (Flip-Chip Pin-Grip Array) processor socket utilizing the Intel® Pentium® III processor integrated with the VIA Pro 266T chipset. The mainboard also integrates the Intel® 82550 10/100 Mbps PCI Ethernet chipset that supports WOL (Wake on LAN) for better remote site management.

For expandability, the mainboard includes one AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) bus, five PCI bus slots and four DIMM sockets that allow memory installation up to a maximum of 4 GB using 1-GB DDR SDRAM (double data rate Synchronous DRAM) modules.

For connectivity, the mainboard provides two USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors, PS/2 interface for both mouse and keyboard and other standard features such as two UART NS16C550 serial ports, enhanced parallel port with Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)/Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) support and one RJ-45 network port.

The system is fully compatible with MS-DOS V6.X, Novell Netware, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and SCO Unixware.

Processors

The Pentium III processor delivers higher performance than previous Pentium processors while maintaining binary compatibility with all previous Intel Architecture processors.

The mainboard supports 100 or 133 MHz GTL+ host bus frequencies for one Pentium III processor running at 933 Mhz, 1 GHz, 1.13 GHz,

1.26 GHz and future generation of Pentium III processors.

Memory

The four DIMM sockets on board accept 128-, 256-, 512-MB and 1-GB DDR SDRAM modules for a maximum memory upgrade capacity of up to 4 GB. For data integrity, the default setting of the ECC (error- correcting code) function of the memory system in BIOS is enabled.