Hardware Installation
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2.2 System Memory
Warning:
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your system board,
processor, disk drives, add-in boards, and other components. Perform
the upgrade instruction procedures described at an ESD workstation
only. If such a station is not available, you can provide some ESD
protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap and attaching it to a
metal part of the system chassis. If a wrist strap is unavailable,
establish and maintain contact with the system chassis throughout
any procedures requiring ESD protection.
The system board is equipped with three 168-pin DIMM (Dual In-
line Memory Module) sockets that support unbuffered PC-133
SDRAM DIMM for 133MHz system memory bus. PC SDRAM
(Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) is a fast memory
interface technology that uses the clock on the chip to synchronize
with the CPU clock so that the timing of the memory chips and the
timing of the CPU are synchronized. This saves time during
transmission of data, subsequently increasing system performance.
The system board also supports the ECC (Error Checking and
Correction) function. To use this function, you must install DIMM that
supports parity. Refer to chapter 1 (System Memory section) for
detailed specification of the memory supported by the system
board.
