Welcome to Your HP Vectra PC

Congratulations on the purchase of your new Hewlett-Packard desktop PC. Your high-performance PC provides:

•a PentiumTM processor in a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for easy processor upgrades

•an integrated level-two cache of 256 KB for high performance

•a main memory of 8 MB or 16 MB, upgradeable to 128 MB

•an Ultra VGA PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) video controller with 1 MB of video memory upgradeable to 2 MB. Some models have a Matrox MGA Millennium video adapter board with 2MB as standard, upgradeable to 4MB or 8MB.

•an integrated Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) controller on the PCI bus supporting Fast IDE and Standard IDE

•three front-access drive shelves (one can be used as an internal shelf)

•one internal drive shelf

•four free slots for accessory boards:

❒one 32-bit PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) slot

❒two 16-bit ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) slots

❒one combination ISA or PCI slot

•one parallel port, and two serial ports

•preloaded HP utilities to ease system configuration tasks

•BIOS stored in Flash ROM

•BIOS support for ISA “Plug and Play”

•pre-installed Operating system and Software.

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