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- Hardware – can you provide the hardware specifications of the actual computer provided to run the instrument? Brand of computer, memory, processor, hard drive(s)? Warranty?
- What operating system is the computer running? 64-bit or 32-bit? Enterprise?
- How does the computer communicate with the instrument? Ethernet, USB, something else?
- If ethernet, does the computer ship with two Ethernet ports? (The second one so one can be used for general networking.) If just one for instrument communication, Chemistry IT will usually have to add one.
- To run the instrument, does the user have to have administrative rights on the computer or is a basic user account sufficient?
- Can the name of the computer be changed to AS-CHM-XRAY-02 from whatever it is sent as without causing problems with instrument control?
- Can we turn on and look at the computer before the install, assuming the computer arrives before the install date?
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