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Aptiva - 2156 Removals and replacements - Identifying parts of the system unit

Applicable to: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, United States

This computer system has 3 bays, each bay has an factory-installed drive in it. The devices are 3.5" Diskette, 32X CD-ROM drive and 3.2GB or 4.2GB hard disk drive.

Diskette drives in this unit use the standard diskette advanced technology (AT) Interface. Hard disk and CD-ROM drives in this unit use an integrated drive Electronics (IDE) AT interface. This computer supports the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) standard for AT attachment disk drives and CD-ROMs.

This system has 2 interface card slots for adapter card expansion. One is the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface, the other is the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) / PCI shared slot. You are only allowed to insert one PCI or ISA adapter card into the PCI/ISA shared slot.

1. Power Supply
This is a 92.85-watt switching power supply.

2. IO slot
The riser card has 1 PCI and 1 PCI/ISA slot.

3. Modem card
This machine has a factory-installed Data/Fax card for data transmission

4. System board

5. CD-ROM Drive
This machine has a factory-installed 32X CD-ROM drive.

6. Floppy Diskette Drive
This machine has a factory-installed 3.5” 1.44MB Floppy drive.

7. Hard Disk Drive
This machine has a factory-installed 3.2GB or 4.2GB hard disk drive.
(Only the D1N and D1J models have 3.2GB hard disk drive, the other models have 4.2 GB hard drive)

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Date Created

28-10-98

Last Updated

19-02-99

Revision Date

18-02-2000

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2156

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