Installation guide

TARGA 3000 Configuration Cookbook
Table of Contents
1 General Information ................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 4
1.2 Related Documents ............................................................................................................................ 4
2 Certified Workstations and Motherboards.................................................................................................. 5
2.1 What Does Certified Mean?................................................................................................................ 5
2.2 System Requirements ........................................................................................................................ 5
2.3 Choosing the Right Ingredients .......................................................................................................... 5
2.4 Currently certified workstations........................................................................................................... 6
2.5 Currently certified motherboards ........................................................................................................ 6
2.6 Incompatible hardware list .................................................................................................................. 6
3 System Considerations .............................................................................................................................. 7
3.1 Which PCI Chipset is Best?................................................................................................................ 7
3.2 What BIOS Will Work?........................................................................................................................ 7
3.3 TARGA 3000, IRQs & DMA............................................................................................................... 7
3.4 How Much RAM is Necessary? .......................................................................................................... 8
3.5 Overclocking ....................................................................................................................................... 8
3.6 Operating System ............................................................................................................................... 8
3.7 Processors .......................................................................................................................................... 8
3.8 Virtual Memory.................................................................................................................................... 9
3.9 TSRs ................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.10 Bus Mastering ................................................................................................................................. 9
4 Certified Workstations.............................................................................................................................. 10
4.1 IBM Intellistation Zpro model 6866-xxU............................................................................................ 10
4.2 IBM Intellistation Mpro model 6868-xxU........................................................................................... 12
4.3 IBM Intellistation Mpro model 6889-xxU........................................................................................... 13
4.4 Required BIOS Changes for IBM Intellistation: ................................................................................ 14
4.5 Compaq SP750 Professional Workstation ....................................................................................... 15
4.6 Dell Precision Workstation 620......................................................................................................... 16
4.7 HP Kayak XU800 Workstation.......................................................................................................... 17
4.8 Silicon Graphics 550 Workstation..................................................................................................... 18
4.9 HP Workstation X4000 ..................................................................................................................... 19
4.10 Compaq Evo Workstation W8000................................................................................................. 20
5 Certified Motherboards............................................................................................................................. 21
5.1 Intel SE440BX-2 "Seattle" Motherboard........................................................................................... 21
5.2 Supermicro P6DBE 440BX motherboard ......................................................................................... 22
5.3 Supermicro S370DL3 ....................................................................................................................... 23
5.4 Tyan S1867 Thunder 2500 ............................................................................................................... 24
5.5 IWILL DCA200N ............................................................................................................................... 25
5.6 SUPERMICRO 370SSR ................................................................................................................... 26
5.7 INTEL 815DEEA(L) .......................................................................................................................... 27
5.8 INTEL D850GB................................................................................................................................. 28
5.9 SUPERMICRO PIIIDR3.................................................................................................................... 29
5.10 TYAN THUNDER i840 (S2520) .................................................................................................... 30
5.11 TYAN THUNDER K7 (S2462)....................................................................................................... 31
5.12 Supermicro Super SSA370 FCPGA motherboard........................................................................ 32
5.13 TESTED BUT NON-CERTIFIED MOTHERBOARDS................................................................... 33
6 TARGA 3000 Technical Advisories.......................................................................................................... 34
6.1 PCILOCK Boot Option ...................................................................................................................... 34
7 Certified Display Adapters ....................................................................................................................... 35
7.1 Overlay Explained............................................................................................................................. 35
7.2 Dual Monitor Support........................................................................................................................ 35
8Disk Arrays............................................................................................................................................... 36
8.1 Image Quality and Data Rates.......................................................................................................... 36
8.2 Certified Hard Drive Controllers........................................................................................................ 36
8.3 SCSI Bus types and potential bandwidth: ........................................................................................ 36