Chapter 1 Hardware Installation 1
1 Hardware Installation
Overview
The American Megatrends MegaRUM PCI Dual Pentium II ISA motherboard
features include:
• two Intel Pentium II CPUs operating at 120, 133, 150, 166, 180, 200, 210, 233,
240, 266 MHz or higher speeds ,
• up to 1 GB of system memory on the motherboard,
• parity checking or ECC (Error Checking and Correction),
• PCI local bus throughput of 132 megabytes per second,
• two Ultra Wide SCSI channels operating at 40 MBs,
• specially designed for the American Megatrends RAID Upgrade controller
cards,
• onboard ATI Rage II PCI VGA controller with 2 MB of synchronous
graphics RAM,
• the American Megatrends SystemGuru server management software,
• two ISA expansion slots, and
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six PCI expansion slots.
CPUs The MegaRUM motherboard will support all Intel Slot1 CPUs operating at 233
MHz, 266 MHz, or faster speeds.
PCI Bus Speed AMIBIOS automatically configures the PCI slots. The PCI slots are
synchronous with the CPU clock:
CPU External Clock Frequency PCI Expansion Slot Frequency
66 MHz 33 MHz
60 MHz 30 MHz
Cont’d