2430 Super VGA Video Card – 2IMPORTANT!Please read before installing your product.Octagon's products are designed to be high in performance whileconsuming very little power. In order to maintain this advantage,CMOS circuitry is used.CMOS chips have specific needs and some special requirements thatthe user must be aware of. Read the following to help avoid damageto your card from the use of CMOS chips.Using CMOS Circuitry in Industrial ControlIndustrial computers originally used LSTTL circuits. Because manyPC components are used in laptop computers, IC manufacturers areexclusively using CMOS technology. Both TTL and CMOS havefailure mechanisms, but they are different. This section describessome of the failures which are common to all manufacturers ofCMOS equipment. However, much of the information has been putin the context of the Micro PC.Octagon has developed a reliable database of customer-induced, fieldfailures. The average MTBF of Micro PC cards exceeds 11 years, yetthere are failures. Most failures have been identified as customer-induced, but there is a small percentage that cannot be identified.As expected, virtually all the failures occur when bringing up thefirst system. On subsequent systems, the failure rate dropsdramatically.