IBM Aptiva 2156, Hardware Maintenance Service

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Hardware Interfaces
The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are
supported in the system unit.
Table 1-1 System Board Hardware Interfaces
Item Interface
Expansion slot
for I/O adapter
cards Two PCI (peripheral component interconnect) v2.1
compatible expansion slots that operates at 33 MHz
bus speed
One IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion
slots that operates at 8 MHz bus speed.
Note: 1 PCI/1ISA slot share and 1 PCI independent
slot
Hard Disk Drives Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0 compatible hard
disk drive interfaces that support PIO mode up to mode
4, DMA 32-bit access up to mode 2 and Ultra 33
Synchronous DMA up to mode 2 (33M bytes/sec).
CD/DVD-ROM
Drive 5.25-in. high-performance, thirty two-speed (32X) CD-
ROM IDE/AT drive
Support Bootable CD-ROM Format specification
version 1.0.
Compliant to Audio-CD, Video-CD, CD-ROM/XA,
Karaoke-CD, and Photo-CD (both single and multi-
session) format.
Diskette Drive AT diskette interface
Video Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal
System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.
SiS5598 VGA on board.
Modem One 56.6 Kbps PCI plug and play modem adapter card
with data/fax features.
Audio CS4280 Audio Controller is compatible with Sound
Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.) and CS4297-KQ Codec
chip onboard.
Pointing device IBM PS/2-compatible mouse
Keyboard device IBM PS/2-compatible keyboard
Serial port 9-pin connector with RS232D electrical interface
Parallel port Supports SPP (IBM PC/AT, PS/2) compatible, EPP
(IEEE 1284 compliance), ECP (IEEE 1284 compliance)
interface.