| Item |
Minimum |
Recommended |
Comment |
| Motherboard |
Including 1 PCI slot |
Including 1 or more PCI slots |
|
| Processor |
1.4GHz |
2.6GHz |
Must meet or exceed speed specs. Can be Pentium® 3, Pentium 4, AMD, Intel® Core/Duo, etc. No Celeron® chips. |
| Memory |
512MB |
1 GB+ |
Memory must fit with motherboard. |
| Hard Drive |
2X 40GB |
150 GB |
2 IDE/EIDE/SATA* drives in a non-RAID array. |
| Video |
SVGA/AGP |
SVGA/AGP |
|
| Network Port |
10/100 |
10/100/1 GB |
|
| USB |
1.1 |
2.0 |
DVD backups are much faster on 2.0. |
| Mouse |
USB or PS2 |
USB or PS2 |
|
| Keyboard |
PS2 |
PS2 |
A USB keyboard is not recommended in combination with a USB mouse, as "sleep" modes often cause them to become disabled and require a system reboot to "wake" the PC. |
| Monitor |
SVGA |
SVGA |
|
| Serial Ports |
2 on board COM ports or Digi Neo |
8 port Digi Neo board |
Must be on board COM ports or one COM port and one or more multi-port serial board Digi Neo (model 70001947) or C/X. We do not support non-digi third party I/O boards. |
| Parallel Port |
1 Maximum |
1 Maximum |
Onboard only. |
| Floppy |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Modem |
External Serial Multitech 33.6 or 56K |
External Serial Multitech 33.6 or 56K |
ONLY approved modems may be used. External serial only. External Serial US Robotics 56K pending approval. |
| Surge Protector |
Required |
Required |
>See below |
| UPS |
Required |
Required |
UPS - APC Smart UPS 600VA or higher or equivalent. |
| Backups |
DVD+RW drive compatible with Nero burning software |
Internal DVD+RW Burner compatible with Nero burning software |
Must use DVD+RW compatible media for backups. The following DVD burners are acceptable:
- Lite-on DVDRW LDW-411S Internal DVD+RW burner
- HP Movie Writer dc3000 External USB DVD+RW burner
- HP 300e External USB DVD+RW burner
|
| Operating System |
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows 2003 Server Standard R2
|
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows 2003 Server Standard R2
|
Windows XP Home/ XP Media Center is NOT supported for a server nor a workstation.
Windows 2003 Server Small Business Suite is NOT supported |
| Virus Protection |
Norton AntiVirus |
Norton AntiVirus
(Norton Corporate is also acceptable) |
Must be Norton and not McAfee. |
| DVD Burning Software |
Nero Version 6 only |
Nero Version 6 only |
|
| Remote Administration Software |
WinVNC |
WinVNC |
Allows remote administration of the desktop. Expected to be supported and required in build 52. |
