Setup guide

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Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 Specific Information
The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 has five expansion slots
consisting of one dedicated AGP slot and four PCI slots. The AGP slot
is not used in NewsCutter Release 2.x.
The following driver versions are qualified for NewsCutter Release 2.x
shipping on the Compaq Professional Workstation AP500:
• Diamond multimedia Sonic Impact S70/S90 – AU8820.SYS
(contact manufacturer for version)
• Turtle Beach
™
Montego II (MIDI board) – AU8820.SYS (contact
manufacturer for version)
• Compaq 32-bit Ultra-Wide SCSI-2 – CPQ32FS2.SYS Version 3.19
• Compaq Ethernet or Fast Ethernet – N100NT.SYS
Version 3.08.00.0004
•Sentinel
®
driver (dongle) – SENTINEL.SYS Version PD5.30
Microprocessor Support
Although Avid ships systems with one microprocessor, Compaq
Professional Workstation AP500 supports up to two Intel Pentium III
microprocessors with up to 512K of full-speed L2 cache memory and
256 KB of advanced transfer cache memory integrated into the
microprocessor.
If you install dual microprocessors, NewsCutter Release 2.x will not
realize any performance gains from a second microprocessor; it is a
single-threaded application. However, NewsCutter is a
multiprocessor-safe application.
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