User manual ASUS L1B

[. . . ] Notebook PC Hardware User's Manual Product Name: Notebook PC Hardware Manual Revision: 1. 00 E961c Release Date: April 2002 Warranty Information Product Warranty Registration Register your product to activate warranty coverage. Visit http://www. asus. com. tw/register/register. htm ASUS e-Member Enter your login information and click Login Non-ASUS e-Member Click !register now ASUS 24 Hour Online Technical Support e-Magazine http://www. asusemag. com. tw/ ASUS Homepage http://www. asus. com. tw Technical Reference Guides ASUS Registration http://www. asus. com. tw/inside/TechnicalReference. htm http://www. asus. com. tw/register/register. htm NETQ Discussion Forum http://www. asusnetq. com. tw Software Download http://download. asus. com. tw Global Service Member http://usa. asus. com/inside/gsm. htm Reseller Square http://reseller. asus. com. tw Evaluate ASUS http://www. asus. com. tw/evaluate. htm About Your Notebook PC's Warranty 1. Warranty will be void if the Notebook PC has been mishandled, misused, willfully damaged, neglected, altered, or defaced in any way. [. . . ] DVD is essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold video as well as audio and computer data. With these capacities and access rates, DVD discs can provide you with dramatically-enhanced high-color, full-motion videos, better graphics, sharper pictures, and Dolby® Digital Surround for a theater-like experience. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format, eventually replacing audio CD, videotape, laserdisc, CD-ROM, and perhaps even video game cartridges. DVD has widespread support from all major electronics companies, all major computer hardware companies, and most major movie and music studios. 40 Using the Notebook PC Software 4 To meet customer requirements for a complete DVD solution, a software playback solution is provided. The provided software has been optimized for playback of MPEG2 (Motion Picture Experts Group specifications for data compression) encoded video clips as well as encrypted DVD movie titles. Decoding digital MPEG2 video is accomplished through software only, eliminating the need for expensive hardware. Using a CD A CD drive letter should be present regardless of the presence of a CD disc in the drive. After the CD is properly inserted, data can be accessed just like with hard disk drives; except that nothing can be written to or changed on the CD. Using the proper software, a CD-RW drive module or DVD+CD-RW drive module can allow CD-RW discs to be used like a hard drive with writing, deleting, and editing capabilities. Vibration is normal for all high-speed CD-ROM drives due to unbalanced CDs or CD print. To decrease vibration, use the Notebook PC on an even surface and do not place labels on the CD. Listening to Audio CD The CD-ROM, CD-RW, and DVD-ROM drives can play audio CDs, but only the DVD-ROM drive can play DVD audio. Insert the audio CD and WindowsTM automatically opens an audio player and begins playing. Depending on the DVD audio disc and installed software, it may require that you open a DVD player to listen to DVD audio. You can adjust the volume through the volume control knob on the CD/ DVD-ROM drive face, function keys on the keypad, or by the WindowsTM speaker icon on the taskbar. 41 4 Using the Notebook PC Regional Playback Information Playback of DVD movie titles involves decoding MPEG2 video, digital AC3 audio and decryption of CSS protected content. CSS (sometimes called copy guard) is the name given to the content protection scheme adopted by the motion picture industry to satisfy a need to protect against unlawful content duplication. Although the design rules imposed on CSS licensors are many, one rule that is most relevant is playback restrictions on regionalized content. In order to facilitate geographically staggered movie releases, DVD video titles are released for specific geographic regions as defined in "Region Definitions" below. Copyright laws require that all DVD movies be limited to a particular region (usually coded to the region at which it is sold). While DVD movie content may be released for multiple regions, CSS design rules require that any system capable of playing CSS encrypted content must only be capable of playing one region. NOTE: The region setting may be changed up to five times using the viewer software, then it can only play DVD movies for the last region setting. Changing the region code after that will require factory resetting which is not covered by warranty. If resetting is desired, shipping and resetting costs will be at the expense of the user. Region Definitions Region 1 Canada, US, US Territories Region 2 Czech, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Gulf States, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, UK, Greece, Former Yugoslav Republics, Slovakia Region 3 Burma, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam Region 4 Australia, Caribbean (Except US Territories), Central America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, South America Region 5 CIS, India, Pakistan, Rest of Africa, Russia, North Korea Region 6 China 42 Using the Notebook PC 4 Portable Module Bay The external Portable Module Bay provides a convenient solution to connect external devices such as CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM+CD-RW, or a second hard disk drive to the Notebook PC using a single cable. External devices can be easily interchanged in the Portable Module Bay. Power LED (Lights when connected to the Notebook PC) Module Device Eject Eject the module drive by pushing the button on the rear of the module bay. Attach the cable to the module bay when not in use. 43 4 Using the Notebook PC Connecting the AiBox The AiBox connects to the AiBox port located on the left side of the Notebook PC. [. . . ] Some security products may also include a motion detector to sound an alarm when moved. LPT Port (Line Printer Port) Logical device name reserved by DOS for the computer parallel ports. Each LPT port is configured to use a different IRQ and address assignment. PCI Bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect Local Bus) PCI bus is a specification that defines a 32-bit data bus interface. PCI is a standard widely used by expansion card manufacturers. PC Cards (PCMCIA) PC cards are about the size of a few stacked credit cards and have a 68-pin connector at one end. The PC Card standard accommodates a number of function, communication, and data storage expansion options. [. . . ]