2136 SL-A Aptiva Product Description

2136 SL-A Aptiva Product Description

This manual contains service information for the 2136 Service Level A (SL-A) model of the IBM Aptiva Personal Computer, worldwide. The Machine Type 2136 contains two PCI slots, three ISA slots and one PCI/ISA-shared slot.

For FRU parts information, see the 'Parts Catalog'

Security: Power-On password. See 'Power-On Password'
System Boards: See 'System Board Layout' for system board jumper and connector locations.

The system board supports the Pentium® processor and has the following features:

•  Pentium® socket 7 Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) connector.
   You must remove the old processor to install an upgrade processor.
•  Detachable CPU heat sink with fan.
•  16-KB CPU intemal cache memory
•  Onboard fixed 256-KB Pipe-Line Burst extemal cache(PBSRAM).
•  Onboard fixed 1-MB video Synchronize Graphics RAM(SGRAM).
•  Four, 72-pin system memory module sockets support these memory modules:
  •  4-MB, 8-MB, 16-MB, or 32-MB SIMM modules.
  •  Non-Parity (32-bit) memory SIMMs.
  •  Memory speed of 60 nanoseconds (ns).
  •  Tin-lead contacts.
  •  Support fast page mode or Extended Data Out EDO) Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).
  •  Maximum system board memory is 128 MB. Refer to 'SIMM Configurations'

•  Video port (15-pin D-sub connector)
•  Parallel port (25-pin D-sub connector)
•  Two serial ports (9-pin D-sub connector)
•  Keyboard port (PS/2 connector)
•  Mouse port (PS/2 connector)

•  PCI/ISA riser card (1x186-pin)
•  Input power (12-pin)
•  AT diskette drive (34-pin)
•  Two 40-pin Enhanced IDE drive channels: a primary local bus
   IDE that supports two hard disk drives and a secondary Enhanced
   IDE that supports a CD-ROM drive and one hard disk drive, or
   two hard disk drives.
•  2-wire power Light-Emitting Diode (LED) cable
•  4-wire hard disk Light-Emitting Diode (LED) cable
•  2-wire power switch connector cable
•  3-wire power supply auxiliary control connector from power supply to
   system board for Microsoft Windows 95 software shutdown feature.
•  RTC lithium battery.

•  Pentium® P54C-133 Mlllz internal; 66 MHz external
•  Pentium® P54C-150 MHz internal; 60 MHz external
•  Pentium® P54C-166 MHz internal; 66 MHz exterual
•  Pentium® P54C-200 Nfl{z internal; 66 Mlllz external
•  Intel/Cyrix P150+ processor
•  Intel/Cyrix P166+ processor

•  AT-type
•  3.5-in. 1.44 MB slimline diskette drive.

•  Onboard 5.25-in high-performance, eight-speed (8X) or twelve-speed (12X)  CD-ROM IDE/AT drive that can read data and play audio from standard and rnini CD-ROM and audio compact discs (audio CDs). It is compatible with industry-standard multimedia requirements.
•  Audio-I/O card (either of with or without wave table feature).
•  Fax/modem adapter card with fax send/receive, voice-over-data features,
•  One pair of external speakers with power adapter.
•  External microphone.

•  Enable/disable power saving feature by BIOS Setup Utility.
•  Devices (monitor and hard disk drive) power saving control by BIOS timer setup.
•  System (standby and suspend modes) power saving control by BIOS timer setup.

•  The power supply is a 200-W switchable high/low voltage power supply with  a thermal sensing variable fan speed and a connector for a detachable grounded 3-wire power cord.
•  The power cable has four DASD connectors: one rnini power connector and three standard 4-pin connectors.
•  To support the Microsoft Windows 95 software shutdown feature, all power supplies  have a 3-wire auxiliary control cable that connects to the system board.  There is no on/off switch cable assembly for the power supply.

•  Two 40-pin ribbon cable for hard disk drives and CD-ROM
•  One 34-pin ribbon cable for diskette drive
•  One 3-pin auxiliary power control cable from power supply to system board
•  One 4-pin (2-wir~ HDD LED cable from system board to front panel
•  One 3-pin (2-wire) power LED cable from system board to front panel
•  One 2-pin (2-wire) power switch cable from system board to front panel
•  One 4-pin voice signal cable from system board to fax/modem adapter card
•  One 10-pin and one 34-pin ribbon cable from system board to Audio-I/O card.

•  The hard disk drive is a 3.5-in. low profile, 1-in. height IDE AT drive with 'look-ahead'  128 KB cache memory and a minimum of l2ms average seek time.  Access time varies by the hard disk drive and the hard disk drive manufacturer.

•  0.28-mm dot pitch.
•  Automatic scanning horizontal frequencies from 30KHz td 54KHz and all vertical  frequencies between 50Hz and 100Hz.
•  Up to nine user controls: power, contrast, brightness, horizontal center,  vertical center, horizontal size, vertical size, pincushion
•  Auto-sensing power input for 100 Vac to 240 Vac.
•  With DDC2A/B feature
•  Suspend and off modes with aruber indicator blinking.
•  Power switch.
•  Tilt and swivel base
•  Connector for a detachable grounded 3-wire power cord.
•  1.8-rn (5.8-ft) attached signal cable.

•  104-key, or 105-key rubber dome keyboard with 1.8-rm (6-foot) cable.

•  PS/2 mouse with 1 .8-rm (6-foot) cable

Item	Interface
Hard disk drives	Two Enhanced IDE mode 4 local bus interface (American National Standards Institute-ANSI)
Input/output (I/O) adapter cards	IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible fax/modem adapter card that operates at 8 MHz bus speed
Diskette drive	AT diskette interface
Video	For refresh rates and monitor frequency settings, see 'Refresh Rates and Monitor Frequencies'. Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal Systern/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.
Serial	9-pin connector with R5232D electrical interface
Parallel	Bidirectional, ECP bidirectional and EPP bidirectional interfaces are supported.
Pointing device	IBM PS/2-compatible mouse
Keyboard device	IBM PS/2-compatible enhanced keyboard
CD-ROM drive	AT IDE, extended architecture (XA) enabled drive
Sound	Sound feature is built in system board with the compatibility to Sound Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.). Wave table feature is resided in Audio-I/O adapter card.

Audio-I/O Card Hardware Interfaces

Item	Interface
Game port	Game port interface for joystick, it also supports MIDI feature.
Microphone-in Speaker-out Line-in	Sound I/O interfaces between system board and external peripheral.

Memory Map Table
This table shows the hexadecimal addresses for the system memory regions.
You may use this information for adapter cards that require you to set up memo regions.

Address range	Description
0-40 KB (000000-09FFFF)	Base memory
640-768 KB (0A0000-0BEFFE)	PCI/ISA video buffer memory
768-800 KB (0C0000-0C7FFF)	Video BIOS memory
800-896 KB (0C8000-0DFFFF)	ISA card BIOS and buffer memory
896-960 KB (0E0000-0EFIFF)	BIOS extension memory Setup and POST memory PCI development BIOS
960-1024 KB (0F0000-0FFFFF)	System BIOS memory
1024 KB-Upper Limit	Main memory
Upper Limit-4 GB	PCI memory

System Input/Output Addresses
This table shows the hexadecimal addresses for each of the system board input/output (I/O) functions

Address range	Function
0000-001F	DMA controller 1
0020-003F	Interrupt controller 1
0040-0047	System timer
0050-0057	System timer
0060-006F	System controller 8742
0070	CMOS RAM address and NMI mask
0078-007B	Real-time clock
0080-009F	DMA page register
00A0-00BF	Interrupt controller 2
00C0-00DF	DMA controller 2
000F-00FF	Math coprocessor
0170-0177, 0376	Secondary IDE controller
01F0-01F7, 03F6	Primary IDE controller
0200-0207	Joystick
0220-022F, 0388-0389, 0534-0537	Audio.
0330-0333	MIDI
0278-027F	Parallel port 2
02F8-022F	Serial port 2
0378-037F	Parallel port 1
03F0-03F7	Diskette drive controller
03F8-03FF	Serial port 1/modem
0CF8	PCI mechanism #1 configuration address register
0CFC	PCI mechanism #2 configuration data register
F000-F010	Bus master IDE

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