TARGA 3000 Configuration Cookbook
11/25/2002
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IRQ 3 - COM2 IRQ 11 - Available
IRQ 4 - COM1 IRQ 12 - Bus Mouse
IRQ 5 - Available or LPT2 IRQ 13 - FPU
IRQ 6 - Floppy Drive IRQ 14 - Primary IDE Interface
IRQ 7 - LPT1 IRQ 15 - Secondary IDE Interface
BIOS Tip: TARGA must not share an interrupt assignment with another device in the system, and TARGA
should be assigned an interrupt of 9, 10 or 11.
3.4 How Much RAM is Necessary?
TARGA 3000 will barely function with a minimum 128MB of system memory but performance increases
dramatically when more RAM is added. 256MB of RAM is recommended (and 512MB will boost
performance further). Under Targa 3000 version 1.5 software, in order to take advantage of the new
features, we strongly recommend 512MB of memory or higher. TARGA is competing with the operating
system and any other applications that may be running in the background. Whenever an application is
launched (i.e. TitleDeko) physical RAM must be allocated to the new process. When the physical RAM
amount is exceeded, the operating system must page out portions of the existing physical RAM to a page or
swap file on the hard drive. Since a hard drive is much slower than memory the paging process slows down
system performance.
3.5 Overclocking
Increasing the bus speed of the motherboard is not supported. The common practice of increasing the
multiplier of bus speed frequency has been shown to lower the overall reliability and predictability of most
systems, and therefore is not recommended on a TARGA 3000 workstation
3.6 Operating System
TARGA 3000 v 1.0 / 1.0.1 / 1.0.2 requires Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (build 1381, Service Pack 5 or
above).
TARGA 3000 v 1.1/1.5/1.5.1 supports Windows 2000 in addition to Windows NT 4.0
As of 11/11/02, Windows XP Professional is supported only in certain configurations using the latest
TARGA 3K v1.5.1 drivers. T3K v1.5.1 does not support the Windows XP Home version.
Use Windows NT Service Pack 5/ Windows 2000 SP 2 or newer for TARGA 3000. If issues arise because of
a service pack update, we will issue a public statement via our web site at www.pinnaclesys.com.
3.7 Processors
The TARGA 3000 has been certified with the following processors :
- PIII 500 MHz and higher
- PIII Xeon 500MHz and higher
- P4 1Ghz and higher
- P4 Xeon 1.8GHz and Higher [Systems like the Compaq EVO W8000 uses Xeon processors)
- AMD Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP 1.0GHz and higher
Dual processor workstations are highly recommended if TitleDeko titles, multiple audio and graphics layers
will be used. By design Windows NT, 2000 and XP supports a symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP)
environment. Adobe Premiere can also take advantage of SMP for specific functions. TARGA 3000 takes
advantage of multithreading but does not benefit from SMP environments.
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