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Chapter 5: Software support
5.5 3Com
®
Virtual Cable Tester™ technology
The motherboard supports the 3Com Virtual Cable Tester (VCT)
technology. The VCT virtually diagnoses and reports cable faults using the
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) tool. The VCT technology detects and
reports open and shorted cables with up to 1 meter of accuracy. It also
detects impedance mismatches, pair swaps, pair polarity problems, and
pair skew problems of up to 64ns.
VCT remarkably reduces networking and support costs complementing a
highly manageable and controlled network system. This tool can be
incorporated in the network systems software making it ideal for field
support as well as development diagnostics.
Using Virtual Cable Tester
1. Right click on My Computer icon on your desktop. On the pop-up
menu, click on Properties to display the System Properties dialog box.
2. Click on Network adapters, and select 3Com Gigabit NIC Adapter
from the list. Click on the Properties button.
3. From the 3Com Gigabit NIC Properties dialog box, select the
Diagnostics tab.
The 3Com Virtual Cable Tester requires using Windows 2000/XP
operating system.
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