System Overview 1-13Table 1-5. Features of the Board Set
Feature Description
Hot Plug PCI slots Ten Hot Plug PCI add-in board slot locations (PCI #34, PCI #33, PCI #32,
PCI #31, PCI #24, PCI #23, PCI #22, PCI #21, PCI #12, and PCI #11). This
comprises eight dedicated 64-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus slots and two 32-bit, 33
MHz PCI bus slots on the system I/O board.
Note that slot locations PCI#32 and PCI#31 can also accommodate 64-bit,
66 MHz PCI cards.
Multiple processor
slots
Four processor sockets on the baseboard (4-way systems only).
Four processor sockets each in the two CPU boxes (8-way systems only).
Upgradable
memory
Sixteen DIMM sockets on a single memory board, supporting up to 16 GB
memory using 1 GB DIMMs. Must use four sticks (4-way interleaving)
double sided buffered type only.
SCSI controller Dual channel onboard Ultra 160/m SCSI controller (PCI-based).
BIOS Flash memory-based BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and Setup utilities.
Video Integrated super SVGA controller ships with 4 MB of video memory.
External device
connectors
Connectors for two serial ports, parallel printer port, wide SCSI port, two
USB connectors, 10/100Base-TX connector, PS/2-compatible keyboard and
mouse, and SVGA monitor.
Clock Real-time clock/calendar (RTC).
System hardware
monitoring
Detects chassis intrusion and contains sensors for temperature, voltage,
and fan failure.
Configuration
utilities
BIOS Setup and SCSISelect Configuration Utility.