Expansion Slots

There are a total of twelve expansion slots on the system board:

•seven 32-bit PCI slots

•four 32-bit EISA slots

•one shared PCI/EISA slot

Memory

The system comes standard with 128-MB Error and Correction (ECC) RAM installed on the SIMM card. The sixteen SIMM sockets (8 rows/ banks) can support up to 2-GB of ECC memory. The optional 2 card supports up to 4-GB of ECC memory.

Figure 6: Memory Card

InforManager™

The system is equipped with InforManager (IFM), a special feature consisting of both hardware and software designed to monitor and report the operation status of the system and its devices: CPUs, power supplies, RAM, ambient temperatures, voltages, and fan operation. One way to monitor these devices is using the InforManager LCD panel (see Chapter 3).

Also supplied with this system are client-server monitoring utilities with two special features (currently available in the Windows NT™ utilities only):

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