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1 About Your Hardware
Main Components and Features of the System Board
Main Components and Features of the System Board
The main components and features of your HP Brio
PC
are:
•
Enhanced
IDE
controller with two channels on the computer bus:
❒
A primary IDE
channel used, for example, for one or two IDE hard disk drives.
❒
A secondary IDE channel used, for example, for IDE
CD-ROM
drives, IDE hard disk drives, or IDE Zip drives.
•
Floppy Disk Drive controller supporting two devices.
•
Rear panel connectors:
❒
1 mouse socket
❒
1 keyboard socket
❒
1 display connector
❒
2 Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors
❒
1 parallel port
❒
1 serial port
•
The main memory controller supports two or three
DIMM
slots. Each slot can host a 168-pin unbuffered DIMM module,
for a total of up to 192
MB
of dynamic random access memory. These slots can be filled in any order.
•
Depending on the model you have purchased, your computer is supplied with one of the following:
❒
An on-board video controller with 2 MB of video memory on the system board.
❒
An
AGP
video card installed in the AGP expansion slot.
Summary of Contents for Brio 8300
Page 1: ...Online Reference Guide Online Guide Date Spring1998 HP PC ...
Page 8: ...8 ...
Page 9: ...1 About Your Hardware ...
Page 22: ...22 1 About Your Hardware Your HP Enhanced Keyboard ...
Page 23: ...2 About Your BIOS ...
Page 34: ...34 2 About Your BIOS How to Recover if Things Go Wrong ...
Page 35: ...3 Upgrading and Adding Accessories ...
Page 65: ...Appendix AT Commands ...
Page 76: ...76 Appendix AT Commands Modem Response Messages ...
Page 80: ...Glossary 80 ...
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