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EISA SERIES DESKTOP

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

0.10.20.01

DESKROMPhoenix

27C512

U26

INITIAL RELEASE

EISA SERIES TOWER

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

TOWERROMU26

INITIAL RELEASE

EQUITY LT

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

1.00

1.00

HLO-A1

HLO-B1

27C64

27C64

3F

5F

INITIAL RELEASE (FIRST 800 UNITS)

1.01

1.01

Y164802001

Y164803001

HLO-A2

HLO-B2

27C64

27C64

3F

5F

Fixes problems with the serial port and

Microsoft Word.

EQUITY LT286e

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

1.01

1.01

AMI

AMI

27256

27256

U18

U19

INITIAL RELEASE

EQUITY LT386SX

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

1.02

1.02

AMI

AMI

27C256

27C256

U13

U14

INITIAL RELEASE

NB3s

VER

PART #

DESC

TYPE

LOC

REASON

040990-KO

INITIAL RELEASE

Summary of Contents for NB3s

Page 1: ...les The appropriate executable can then be run either from diskette or hard drive There will be some exceptions to the above rule In attempting to benchmark or troubleshoot any add on that requires a device driver CD ROM local area network etc obviously the necessary device driver s must be loaded Also some programs will require a minimum number of FILES or BUFFERS to be defined in the CONFIG SYS ...

Page 2: ... in the warranty period for the Epson NB3s LCD Unit part number B1 101 Epson America Inc has made the decision to extend the warranty period for the Epson NB3s LCD Unit The warranty period is now extended to five years from the date of purchase Standard warranty claim procedures are to be followed for failures The normal warranty labor reimbursement and no charge parts exchange will be given for t...

Page 3: ...ge hit 2 removable rechargeable NiCad batteries a 3 5 1 44MB floppy disk drive 640 x 480 paper white VGA compatible LCD parallel external FDD RS 232C serial and external VGA analog monitor ports connector for an external 10 key numeric keypad MS DOS 4 01 What are some of the options and expansion capabilities The 1 MB of system RAM can be expanded to either 2MB or 5MB total 20MB 40MB and 60MB remo...

Page 4: ...ble that can charge up to 2 batteries at a time Can batteries be changed on the fly No The Epson NB3s must be powered off before changing the battery Attempting to change it while the computer is powered on will damage the battery or computer possibly both and void the warranty How long does it take to fully charge the battery In the Epson NB3s either with the AC adapter or the expansion unit it t...

Page 5: ...es drives Q14 If the expansion unit hard drive is 120MB why does it only format out to 112MB A14 The ROM BIOS drive type table only provides standard AT drive types Drive type 9 900 cylinders 15 heads 17 sets track 112MB is the closest match to the translate mode parameters of the CP 30104 hard drive Q15 If I have the 120MB hard drive installed in the expansion unit and I boot the Epson NB3s when ...

Page 6: ...rse video display A22 Three ways SETUP keyboard control or a utility program called MODE2 SETUP determines the default configuration Normal is black characters on a white background At the DOS prompt and from most applications you can type Ctrl Alt that s the comma punctuation mark to toggle the video Also from the DOS prompt you can run the MODE2 NOR or MODE2 REV to change the video mode Q23 I m ...

Page 7: ...EMM386 from Quarterdeck Office Systems or 386MAX from Qualitas Software Q26 Is MS DOS 3 3 compatible That s what we use for the local area network nodes in my office A26 Yes Epson s MS DOS 3 3 product code A806851 has been installed and tested There are 2 points to make note of first there is no memory management software included with MS DOS 3 3 so you ll have to go with a third party package Sec...

Page 8: ...rs itself down If there is no drive access within the timeout period the hard drive parks the read write heads and powers the drive down The next time a drive access is requested the hard drive powers back up Be patient as it can take up to 15 seconds for the hard drive to reach the correct operating speed Remember that frequent drive start ups can consume more power than the mode saves and can ca...

Page 9: ...LITY Q30 How s the software compatibility with the Epson NB3s A30 Very good Virtually every type of software that s been tried on the Epson NB3s has worked as it should You may need to experiment with the different display options for a given package some will work fine as standard VGA others will have a special option for an LCD display You can also experiment with reversing the display mode and ...

Page 10: ...n tested as well These include Novell s NE1000 and NE2000 Ethernet NICs 3Com s EtherLink Plus NIC Standard Microsystem s PC 110 Arcnet NIC and IBM s Token Ring II and Token Ring 16 4 NICs When configuring those NlCs that are not self configurable we recommend staying with fairly standard settings In our testing we typically used I O port address 0300h and interrupt request lines 2 3 or 5 By follow...

Page 11: ... 00 1 00 HLO A1 HLO B1 27C64 27C64 3F 5F INITIAL RELEASE FIRST 800 UNITS 1 01 1 01 Y164802001 Y164803001 HLO A2 HLO B2 27C64 27C64 3F 5F Fixes problems with the serial port and Microsoft Word EQUITY LT286e VER PART DESC TYPE LOC REASON 1 01 1 01 AMI AMI 27256 27256 U18 U19 INITIAL RELEASE EQUITY LT386SX VER PART DESC TYPE LOC REASON 1 02 1 02 AMI AMI 27C256 27C256 U13 U14 INITIAL RELEASE NB3s VER ...

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