Overview of additional devices and drivers
Multi-monitor interfaces
Device Additional information
Multi-monitor graphics card Section "Multi-monitor graphics cards in PC Stations (Page 96)"
Up to a maximum of 4 monitors on a PC.
Connect monitors via internal inter‐
faces
You can connect one monitor to one port.
Up to a maximum of 2 monitors on a PC.
PC station on redundant network
Driver Additional information
Network adapters
● Redundant, fault-tolerant terminal bus based on the Parallel Redundancy Protocol
(PRP)
● Redundant, fault-tolerant terminal bus based on the INTEL TEAM mode
● Redundant, fault tolerant system bus based on the modular switches of the
SCALANCE series
● Redundant, fault tolerant system bus with AS 410H
Documentation
Process Control System PCS 7; Fault-tolerant Process Control Sys‐
tems
Time signal via DCF77
Driver Additional information
Time reception service Section "How to activate the DCF77 reception service (Page 97)"
Documentation
Process Control System PCS 7; Time synchronization
Acoustic or visual signal generator
Driver Additional information
Horn module The required drivers are automatically installed with PCS 7.
Documentation
Process Control System PCS 7; Operator Station
Acoustic signal generator
Driver Additional information
Sound card Installation medium for the sound card or Windows standard;
Section "Assigning the driver to the sound card (Page 97)"
Smart cards
Driver Additional information
Smart card reader
WinCC Information System
;
Information on the suitable smart card reader and the required driver is available in
the
Process Control System
PCS 7; PCS 7 Readme
file (see "Preface (Page 9)")
.
Installing PC stations
5.5 Installation of drivers for PCS 7
PCS 7 - PC Configuration (V8.2)
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