System Board Features; System Board Connectors - Gateway ALR 9200 Maintaining And Troubleshooting

10 Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Gateway ALR 9200 Server

System Board Features

The system board functions as the main interface between the processor,
memory, and peripherals.
Table 1 lists the features of the system board. Figure 3 on page 11 shows the
components on the system board and their locations.
Table 1: System Board Features
Feature
Processor
Main memory
Video memory
PCI bus(es)
ISA bus
Server management
Graphics
SCSI
System I/O

System Board Connectors

Figure 3 shows the connectors on the system board. Some of these
connectors may not be used, depending on the configuration of the server.
The table below provides the key to Figure 3.
Description
Installed: Up to four Pentium
edge contact (SEC) cartridges installed in Slot 2 connectors.
Includes connectors for six VRM 8.3-compliant plug-in voltage-
regulator modules (VRMs).
Single plug-in module containing 16 dual in-line memory module
(DIMM) sockets for up to 4 GB of extended data output (EDO)
dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
Installed: 256 MB–4 GB of EDO error correcting code (ECC)
random access memory (RAM).
Installed: 2 MB of video memory.
PCI-A—Three expansion connectors
PCI-B—Four expansion connectors (one shared with the
ISA slot)
One expansion slot for expansion boards (shared with a
PCI-B slot).
Thermal/voltage monitoring and error handling.
Front panel controls and indicator light emitting diodes (LEDs).
Integrated onboard Cirrus Logic GD5480 super video graphics
array (SVGA) controller.
Two embedded small computer systems interface (SCSI)
controllers:
Symbios SYM53C810AE—narrow SCSI controller providing
support for legacy 8-bit SCSI devices
Symbios SYM53C896—dual-channel wide low voltage
differential (LVD)/single-ended (SE) (ultra2/ultra) SCSI controller
driving one SCSI backplane in the system and providing support
for external expansion.
PS/2-compatible keyboard and mouse ports, parallel port,
video port, USB port, and two serial ports (serial port 1 is the left
connector).
II Xeon™ processors, in single
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