
Hardware Functional Overview
4.8.1System Memory
The notebook offers two
4.8.2Video Memory
The video memory of the notebook is embedded inside the VGA controller chip (S3 Savage
4)with 8,16 and 32MB SMA video memory that can support display resolutions of up to 1024 x 768 at
4.9System BIOS
The notebook utilizes the Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 (Basic I/O System) that contains both the main system BIOS and the VGA BIOS with Shadow BIOS capability. It utilizes Flash EPROM BIOS that allows instant erasing and programming without replacing the EPROM chip.
The BIOS is stored in a
4.10 Video Subsystem
The video subsystem, integrated inside the North Bridge chip and the LCD panel, controls the display output to both the LCD Panel screen and to the external VGA port.
4.10.1 Video Chip Controller
S3 Savage 4 also includes 8, 16 and 32MB of shared architecture memory (SMA) with all of the above in a single BGA package.
Feature Summary of the S3 Savage 4:
•S3 Savage 4 Chip set
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•Designed for AGP 4X/2X with
•128 bit engine with dual rendering pipelines
•Floating point triangle setup engine Single cycle 3D architecture and trilinear filtering
•True color rendering
•140MHz pixels/sectrilinear fill rate
•8M triangle/sec setup engine Full speed DVD video play back
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•Support Industry standard S3 Texture Compression
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