Chapter 3. Adapters and Internal Drives
Video Graphics Adapters
A high-performance, high-resolution graphics adapter provides the video subsystem in your computer.
The type of graphics adapter installed varies with computer model. Your computer has one of the
following installed in an expansion slot:
A Glyder MAX-2 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator. This is designed for the AGP expansion slot.
An Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter.
The monitor connector is located on the graphics adapter.
The Glyder MAX-2 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator installed in the AGP expansion slot has a blue, 15-pin
monitor connector.
The Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter installed in a PCI expansion slot is a
high-performance graphics card with a graphics engine, a texture engine, a 16 MB frame buffer, and 4
MB of texture memory. It also provides and expansion connector to attach an optional Geometry
Accelerator PCI card for further performance enhancement. It has three external connectors.
– The round connector on the left is a 5-pin, stereo sync output jack. This jack provides a
connection to the emitter module of a pair of LCD shutter glasses.
– The blue connector in the middle is a 15-pin monitor port. This is where you connect your
monitor.
– The black connector on the right is a 15-pin, video graphics array (VGA) input connector. This
connector makes it possible to accept input from another VGA input device. Although the
Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter has built-in VGA capability, you can override this
by installing a separate VGA adapter and cabling its output to the VGA input connector on the
Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter.
Important Adapter Information
Slot 5 shares the
PCI Bus Request signal with the integrated SCSI controller. Therefore, to avoid a
performance impact, it is recommended that slot 5 not be used for high-performance PCI adapters
such as the Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter.
Video Device Drivers
Video device drivers for the Intergraph Intense 3D Pro 2200 graphics adapter and the Glyder MAX-2
2D/3D Graphics Accelerator are provided on the
Ready-to-Configure CD that comes with IntelliStation M
Pro computers. Instructions for installing the device drivers are provided on the
Ready-to-Configure CD in
README files that correspond to the operating system being used.
Note: Video device drivers have already been installed in computers that come with IBM-preinstalled
software.
Internal Drives
The IDE, SCSI, and diskette interfaces provide connectors for attaching internal drives.
IntelliStation M Pro computers come standard with an internal diskette drive, an internal SCSI or IDE hard
disk drive, and an internal CD-ROM drive.
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