Acer Altos G500, User Manual

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Overview
The Acer Altos G500 server models utilizes a PCI bus based dual-
processor mainboard built on an ATX baseboard. It comes with a dual
FC-PGA (Flip-Chip Pin-Grip Array) processor socket utilizing the Intel
®
Pentium
®
III processor integrated with the VIA Pro 266T chipset. The
mainboard also integrates the Intel ® 82550 10/100 Mbps PCI Ethernet
chipset that supports WOL (Wake on LAN) for better remote site
management.
For expandability, the mainboard includes one AGP (Accelerated
Graphics Port) bus, five PCI bus slots and four DIMM sockets that allow
memory installation to a maximum of 4 GB using 512-MB DDR SDRAM
(double data rate Synchronous DRAM) modules.
For connectivity, the mainboard provides two USB (Universal Serial Bus)
connectors, PS/2 interface for both mouse and keyboard and other
standard features such as two UART NS16C550 serial ports, enhanced
parallel port with Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)/Extended Capabilities
Port (ECP) support and one RJ-45 network port.
The system is fully compatible with MS-DOS V6.X, Novell Netware, Red
Hat Linux, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and SCO Unixware.
Processors
The Pentium III processor delivers higher performance than previous
Pentium processors while maintaining binary compatibility with all
previous Intel Architecture processors.
The mainboard supports 100 or 133 MHz GTL+ host bus frequencies for
one Pentium III processor running at 1GHz, 1.13 GHz, 1.26 GHz and
future generation of Pentium III processors.
Memory
The four DIMM sockets on board accept 128-, 256-, 512-MB and 1-GB
DDR SDRAM modules for a maximum memory upgrade capacity of up
to 4 GB. For data integrity, the default setting of the ECC (error-
correcting code) function of the memory system in BIOS is enabled.
See “Memory/Cache Options” on page 90 for more on this BIOS
setting.
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