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Chapter
Preparing the Desk Station V Plus
The Desk Station V Plus and Expansion Cards
Preparing the Desk Station V Plus
This chapter explains how to install expansion cards and connect your
computer to the Desk Station V Plus.
Before installing an expansion card, confirm that the Desk Station V Plus can
support it. Set up the card following the instructions in the card's
documentation. If you are using Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups,
or installing an ISA card in a Windows 95 system, consider how the new card
will affect other cards, your computer, and the Desk Station V Plus. For
example:
❖ What are the power requirements for your expansion card?
❖ What Interrupt ReQuest line settings (IRQ) will you assign your card?
❖ What Direct Memory Access (DMA) ReQuest line settings (DRQ) will
you assign your card?
❖ What Input/Output address settings will you assign your card?
NOTE:
The Desk Station V Plus does not support expansion cards
requiring a 4.77 MHz clock rate for proper operation.
Before buying a card, check to see that it does not require
operation at 4.77 MHz.
The Desk Station V Plus has two full-length expansion slots and one half-
length expansion slot. These support most standard expansion cards. Each
of the two full-length slots, slot 1 and 2, allows you to install either a full
length 8-bit or 16-bit ISA, or 32-bit PCI expansion card. The half-length
slot, slot 3, allows you to install a half-length 32-bit PCI expansion card.
Among the expansions you can install are: a modem card, a video card and a
network interface card.
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