IBM Aptiva 2187, Service Manual

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Identifying the Parts of the System Unit
This computer system has 4 bays, 3 of the bays have factory-installed drives in them.
The devices are 3.5” Diskette, 40X CD-ROM drive, and 4.0 GB hard disk (some
models may have hard disk of 6 or 8 GB capacity).
Diskette drives in this unit use the standard diskette advanced technology (AT)
Interface. Hard disk and CD-ROM drives in this unit use an integrated drive
Electronics (IDE) AT interface. This computer supports the American National
Standard Institute (ANSI) standard for AT attachment disk drives and CD-ROMs.
This system has 3 interface cards slots for adapter card expansion. All of them
are Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interfaces.
Some models of this system have a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port on board.
Some models of this system have a DFP(Digital flat panel) port.