| PD-1000 FAQ 1: General
Questions |
Q: |
What are the LED indicators for?
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| A: |
- Left: Power Saving Status Indicator
- Middle: Hard Disk Activity Indicator
- Right: Battery Status Indicator
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| Q: |
What is the advisory for the
Lithium Battery? |
| A: |
- If it has not been used in over 6 months it may become unusable. It should always be
recharged within 2 days after it loses it's power.
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| Q: |
How long will the Lithium battery
last? |
| A: |
- Based on a full charge, the PD-1000 standard battery should last for for 60-80 minutes
when peripheral devices work less than 10%.
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| Q: |
What type power supply is
compatible with the PD-1000? |
| A: |
- PD-1000 uses a lithium-ion battery and/or a 18V AC adapter for its power supply.
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| Q: |
Where can I find the battery's
charge status? |
| A: |
- You can check the battery charge status by clicking on the battery indicator in the
system tray near the clock.
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| Q: |
Why does it take a few seconds for
any video to be displayed when booting? |
| A: |
- This is due to the video controller is built into the CPU. Before any video can be
displayed, including BIOS information, the processor must first do a quick internal chip
test.
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| Q: |
How can I turn off the power
whenever PD-1000 hangs? |
| A: |
- Press the power button for about 4-5 seconds to shut down the computer. When the
computer is powered off, the Cyrix CPU must perform certain tasks before complete shut
down that is why there is a delay. Please be patient.
If you still encounter problems,
press the reset button on the back on the Mininotebook and it will reboot or remove the
battery and AC power cord, then re-install the battery.
Upon normal shutdown of Windows, the PD-1000 will power off automatically.
Also note that the PD-1000 will automatically power on when either a battery is
attached, the AC power cable is attached or once it is placed in the Port Module or
Docking Station. It is therefore recommended that you connect any devices to the Port
Module (floppy, modem, cd, etc.) before you couple them together. Peripherals will not
operate if they are attached after the power on.
We strongly recommend never to plug the PD-1000 into the docking station when the
system is turned on.
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| Q: |
What is the visual display system
for PD-1000? |
| A: |
- Monitor: 6.1" TFT Color, Touch Screen Visual Control, DRAM: 1.25MB ?2.125MB,
Resolution: 640 X 480 @16M colors.
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| Q: |
What is the HDD Spec. for PD-1000? |
| A: |
- The HDD dimension is 2.5" 8mm (H) IDE and standard Spec. is 1.6GB, it can be
extended up to 2.1GB and more. The BIOS will auto detect the harddrive specs.
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| Q: |
How should we clean the touch
panel? |
| A: |
- Clean it with a soft cloth only. It is prohibited to use water or other volatile
solvent.
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| Q: |
Does the touchscreen use any
system resources? |
| A: |
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| Q: |
Does the PD-1000 support DVD? |
| A: |
- The PD-1000 does not have a ZVport, therefore it currently will not play DVD. You can
however play LCD, mpeg videos, Quicktime videos , AVI files and most other types of video.
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| Q: |
Why does the PD-1000 system only
recongize 30MB of ram instead of 32MB? |
| A: |
- 1.5 MB of Memory is used for Video memory. (this can be upgrade to 2.25MB in the CMOS).
The CyrixGX cpu is a special processor that controls not only the processing functions b
the video as well.
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| Q: |
My Power Management does not seem
to work, every 30 minutes the system turns back on. Why? |
| A: |
- This may be due to the USB port. If you have enabled it in the BIOS, every 30 minutes it
will do a automatic system check and turn the system back on. Disable the USB port if you
wish to use this feature.
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| Q: |
The suspend mode stays less than
30 seconds when press F5 key or close the case. Why? |
| A: |
- Renew BIOS, install r109eng.bin for 166 MHz, and R007eng.bin for 120/133 MHz. (These are
the English version BIOS, for other languages please contact
us).
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| Q: |
My System "whistles"
occasionally, how do I stop this? |
| A: |
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| Q: |
What is special about the Cyrix
MediaGX?Processor? |
| A: |
- The MediaGX processor is a new generation of Windows?-compatible processors that are
changing the way PCs are built -- and shrinking costs in the process. It integrates the
sound, graphics and memory control by putting these functions within the processor.
The
MediaGX processor integrates the PCI interface, coupled with audio, graphics and memory
control functions, right into the processor unit. To pull the sound and graphics hardware
onto the MediaGX processor, Cyrix enhanced the x86 architecture by creating four exclusive
Cyrix processor features: XpressRAM?, XpressGraphics?, XpressAUDIO? and Virtual System
Architecture? (VSA). See the MediaGX Marketing Brief for further details.
There are several levels at which the MediaGX processor replaces components in a PC.
First, it is obvious from our discussion here that the MediaGX replaces costly graphics
and sound cards. Secondly, on the motherboard level, the MediaGX and its companion chip,
the Cx5530, replaces the processor, north and south bridge chips, the memory control
hardware and L2 cache. Finally, the simplified PC design of the MediaGX along with its low
power and low heat characteristics allow the OEM PC manufacturer to design a system in a
smaller form factor with a reduced power supply requirement.
The MediaGX is totally transparent to all software applications, thereby assuring
compatibility. A user can expect a MediaGX system to provide equivalent performance as a
Pentium? system at the same MHz.
For more information visit the Cyrix
website
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| Q: |
What is special about EDO RAM? |
| A: |
- Extended Data Out RAM recognizes that most of the time when a CPU requests memory for a
particular address, it is going to want some more addresses of memory nearby. By remember
the last address it speeds up the memory cycle with improvement is performance of as much
as 40%.
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| Q: |
How do I check my Windows 98
System in the PD-1000 Machine? |
| A: |
- Sometimes, you may find the that Windows 98 in your PD-1000 Machine is not stable or a
malfunction message prompts you the application software is not properly working in your
system. For trouble-shooting or backing up of your system parameters, you may do as
follows
In the Start Menu, select "Run", a window will prompt you to type is
a application or executable file. Please key in the following alternatives:
(1) MSCONFIG (configuration file manager)
(2) SFC (system file checker for corrupt files)
To re-install Windows 98 on your system (there is a backup of Windows 98 in your
System), please key:
C:\Windows\Option\Cabs\Setup.exe
Your PD-1000 machine will start the re-setup of your Windows 98 system. It will Keep
your existing drivers and applications.
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| Q: |
Why does Microsoft report problems
with PCI to IRQ steering in the device manager? |
| A: |
- This is caused by Windows 98 inability to recognize our driver. There is not problem at
all with the system or functionally.If you wish to correct this, follow the steps below:
(note the exact spacing)
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- Find the file "Machine.inf" located in the Windows\INF directory.
- Make a backup copy of this file.
- Use a text editor such as Notepad and find the section called: [GENDEV_SYS]
- Edit the following line with a remark ( ; and a space)
; %*PNP0C0F.DeviceDesc% =IRQHOLDER_DRV,*PNP0C0F ; ACPI IRQ Holder %PCI/IRQHolder.DeviceDesc%=IRQHOLDER_DRV,PCI\IRQHolder
- Next edit [IRQHOLDER_DRV] with these lines:
AddReg=IRQHOLDER_ADddReg
; DelReg=IRQHOLDER_DelReg
- Next edit [IRQHOLDER_AddReg]
; HKR,,DevLoader,,PCI.VxD ; HKR,,PCIDevice,1,01,00,00,00
HKR,,ConfigFlags,3,00,10,00,00
- Finally, remark out this section:
; [IRQHOLDER_DRV.HW]
; AddReg=NoShutDownRemove.AddReg
- Save the file and reboot. Check the device manager to make sure that the PCI steering is
now correct.
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