Acer G901 manual Onboard video, Network interface controllers

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The mainboard provides active terminators, termination voltage, resettable fuses, and protection diodes for both SCSI channels. You can disable the onboard terminators in BIOS setup.

Onboard video

The mainboard incorporates an ATI RAGE XL PCI graphics accelerator with 4 MB of video SDRAM that supports all standard IBM VGA modes. The embedded SVGA video subsystem supports:

•Pixel resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 under 2D and 1024 x 768 under 3D

•CRT and LCD monitors up to 100 Hz vertical refresh rate

The mainboard supports disabling of the onboard video through BIOS setup or when a plug-in video card is installed in any of the PCI slots.

Network interface controllers

Note: To ensure EMC product regulation compliance, the system must be used with shielded LAN cables.

The mainboard includes two network interface controllers (NICs):

•Intel® 82550 NIC that supports 10Base-T and 100Base-TX networks The 82550 controller supports the following features:

•32-bit PCI, CardBus master interface

•Integrated IEEE 802.3 10Base-T and 100Base-TX compatible

PHY

•IEEE 820.3u auto-negotiation support

•Chained memory structure similar to the 82559, 82558, 82557 and 82596

•Full duplex support at both 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps operation

•Low power +3.3 V device

•IP checksum off-loading

NIC 1 can be used as both a network interface and server management interface.