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Aptiva - 2139/2153 hardware interfaces

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The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are supported in the system unit.

Item

Interface

Expansion slot
for I/O adapter
cards



Machine Type 2153:
One PCI (peripheral component interconnect) v2.1
compatible expansion slot that operates at 33 MHz
bus speed
Two IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion
slots that operates at 8 MHz bus speed.
Note: 1 PCI/1 ISA slot share and 1 ISA independent slot

Machine Type 2139:
Three PCI v2.1 compatible expansion slots that
operates at 33 MHz bus speed
Two IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion
slots that operates at 8 MHz bus speed. 1 PCI/ISA
share.

Hard disk drives

Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0 compatible hard
disk drive interfaces that support PIO mode up to mode
5 , DMA 32-bit access up to mode 2 and Ultra 33
Synchronous DMA up to mode 2 (33M bytes/sec).

CD/DVD-ROM
drive

5.25-in. high-performance, twenty four-speed (24X)
and thirty two-speed (32X) CD-ROM IDE/AT drive
(only for 2153)
Support Bootable CD-ROM Format specification
version 1.0.
Compliant to Audio-CD, Video-CD, CD-ROM/XA,
Karaoke-CD, and Photo-CD (both single and multi-session)
format.
DVD 2X (for both 2139 and 2153)

Diskette drive

AT diskette interface

Video





Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal
System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.
Machine Type 2153:
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X or 1X VGA on board.
Machine Type 2139:
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X to enhance 3D graphical
display performance.

Modem

One 56.6 Kbps IBM AT-ISA plug and play modem
adapter card with data/fax/voice features.

Audio

CS4235KQ is compatible with Sound Blaster (Creative
Labs, Inc.).

Pointing device

IBM PS/2-compatible mouse

Keyboard device

IBM PS/2-compatible keyboard

Serial port

9-pin connector with RS232D electrical interface

Parallel port

Supports SPP (IBM PC/XT, PC/AT, PS/2) compatible,
EPP (IEEE 1284 compliance), ECP (IEEE 1284
compliance) interface.

Game port

Game port interface for joystick. It also supports MIDI.

USB

M5237 USB controller integrated in the M1543 south
bridge.



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Date Created

16-07-98

Last Updated

10-12-98

Revision Date

10-12-99

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2139, 2153

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