Compal NBLB2, Service Manual

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CHAPTER 1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION SPECIFICATION .................................................... 1
SPECIFICATIONS........................................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER 2 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION .......................................................................... 6
1. S
YSTEM
C
OMPONENTS
S
UMMARY
...........................................................................................7
2. S
YSTEM
C
ONTROLS
.................................................................................................................9
2.2 System status indicators .................................................................................................................. 9
2.1 Buttons ............................................................................................................................................ 9
3. C
ORE
BIOS F
EATURES
............................................................................................................9
3.1 Multi Boot ....................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Quiet Boot ....................................................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Boot Block .................................................................................................................................... 10
4. T
HERMAL MANAGEMENT
.......................................................................................................10
5. P
OWER
M
ANAGEMENT FOR
ACPI
MODE
................................................................................10
5.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2 System Time-outs ......................................................................................................................... 10
5.3 System Power Management.......................................................................................................... 10
5.4 Device Power Management .......................................................................................................... 11
5.5 Hibernation ................................................................................................................................... 12
6. ACPI (A
DVANCED
C
ONFIGURATION AND
P
OWER
I
NTERFACE
) ..............................................13
6.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................... 13
6.2 ACPI Sleep Status ......................................................................................................................... 13
6.3 Fast Resume .................................................................................................................................. 13
6.4 Power State Transition Diagram ................................................................................................... 13
6.5 Storage Devices and Batteries ...................................................................................................... 14
6.6 Bootable Device ............................................................................................................................ 14
6.7 Embedded controller ..................................................................................................................... 14
7. PC2001 ..................................................................................................................................15
8. M
ISCELLANEOUS
F
EATURES
..................................................................................................15
8.1 Single BIOS ROM ........................................................................................................................ 15
8.2 USB Support ................................................................................................................................. 15
8.3 Flash utility – one BIOS ROM only ............................................................................................. 15
8.4 Crisis Recovery ............................................................................................................................. 15
8.5 VGA Support ................................................................................................................................ 15
9. C
USTOMER
S
PECIFIC
F
EATURES
.............................................................................................16
9.1 Display of System Type and BIOS Version Number on Boot ..................................................... 16
9.2 CMOS RAM management ........................................................................................................... 16
9.3 System Management BIOS(SM BIOS) version 2.4 (DMI 2.0) .................................................... 16
9.4 EEPROM ...................................................................................................................................... 16
10. S
YSTEM
S
ETUP
.......................................................................................................................18
10.1 Invoking setup .............................................................................................................................. 18
10.2 Setup screens ................................................................................................................................ 18
10.2.1 Main Menu .................................................................................................................................... 18
10.2.2 Security Menu ............................................................................................................................... 19
10.2.3 Boot Menu ..................................................................................................................................... 21
10.2.4 Exit Menu ...................................................................................................................................... 22
11. OS C
OMPATIBILITY
...............................................................................................................24
12. S
OFTWARE
S
PECIFICATION FOR
EC-FW ................................................................................24
12.1 General purpose ............................................................................................................................ 24
12.2 Features ......................................................................................................................................... 24
12.3 Types of EC-FW provided ............................................................................................................ 24
12.3.1 Command set 40h-4Fh for OEM defined through Port60/64, Port62/66 and Port68/6C ............. 25