Hardware Interfaces (Aptiva 2165 - SL-A)

Hardware Interfaces

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

Item	Interface
Expansion slot for I/O adapter cards	Three PCI (peripheral component interconnect) v2.1 compatible expansion slots that operates at 33 MHz bus speed .PCI slot1 can hold a short(175mm) PCI adapter card. PCI slot2 can hold a PCI adapter card measuring 165 mm in length (or less). PCI slot3 can hold a PCI adapter card measuring 236 mm in length(or less).
Hard Disk Drives	Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0 compatible hard disk drive interfaces that support PIO mode up to mode 4, 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, forty speed (40X) CD-ROM IDE/AT drive 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.
Diskette Drive	AT diskette interface
Video	Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface. SiS530 VGA on board.
Modem	One 56.6 Kbps PCI plug and play modem adapter card with data/fax features.
Audio	ESS 1938 Audio Controller is compatible with Sound Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.) and with Codec function embedded.
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/AT, PS/2) compatible, EPP (IEEE 1284 compliance), ECP (IEEE 1284 compliance) interface.
Game port	Game port interface for joystick. It also supports MIDI.
Ethernet Port	Some models have the 10/100 Mbps autosense Ethernet function built on board
USB	USB controller integrated in SiS530.