Specifications

ChemStation Plus Method Validation—System Requirements
Hardware requirements
The following list shows the mini-
mum hardware requirements for
the client application:
• 400-MHz Pentium II (Pentium
IV recommend)
• 4 GByte of free hard disk space
• 96 MB RAM for single Chem-
Station instrument. 128 MB is
recommended for best perfor-
mance, for Windows 2000 the
minimum requirement is
128 MB.
• 128 MB RAM for two Chem-
Station instruments (256 MB or
more is recommended for best
performance)
• Display: 1024 × 768, small fonts,
65-thousand colors
Method Validation Pack installs
and runs on the same instance of
the Oracle database as ChemStore
C/S and thus does not require a
separate Oracle licence. For serv-
er hardware requirements, please
refer to the server hardware
requirements for ChemStore on
page 5.
Software requirements
• Windows NT Workstation 4.0
with Service Pack 6a or
• Windows 2000 Professional
with Service Pack 2
Agilent ChemStation revision
A.09.03 or later
• Agilent ChemStore C/S B.02.02
or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
4.01 or later
• Microsoft data access
components (MDAC) 2.5 will
be installed on your system. If
you already use a later version
of MDAC, or require for com-
patibility reasons a previous
version, please contact your
Agilent support representative
for compatibility information.
• A printer must be installed and
configured in Windows.
• The hard disk partition
that is used for installation of
Method Validation Pack must
be formatted with NTFS.
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Compatibility with
ChemStation Plus modules
Agilent ChemStation Plus Method
Validation Pack A.01.02 is compat-
ible with the following Chem-
Station Plus modules:
• Agilent ChemStation for GC,
LC, A/D, CE, CE/MS and LC/MS
for instrument control and data
analysis
• Agilent ChemAccess remote
access and module
• Agilent ChemStore data organi-
zation and data storage module
For result management in a rela-
tional database, Method Validation
Pack requires the ChemStore data-
base or ChemStation Plus Security
Pack. Method Validation Pack is
available in a standalone PC-based
version or as full client-server
application. The standalone data-
base file format adheres to a com-
mon standard, which is used by
many other applications, for
example, MS Access. The client-
server version is based on an
Oracle relational database.