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Omnino HS Quick Start Guide – Ver 1.0

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Page 1: ...Omnino HS Quick Start Guide Ver 1 0 1 C O M P U T E R S N E T W O R K S S O L U T I O N S Omnino HS User Guide ...

Page 2: ... Environment laboratory To gain a CE mark the Viglen computer range has had to undergo many difficult tests to ensure it is Electromagnetically Compatible These are carried out in the in house Environment lab at Viglen Headquarters We have made every effort to guarantee that each computer leaving our factory complies fully with the correct standards To ensure the computer system maintains complian...

Page 3: ...y the purchaser for backup Copyright 2005 Viglen Limited All Rights Reserved OMNINO HS User Guide Version 1 0 Printed in the United Kingdom Liability No warranty or representation either expressed or implied is made with respect to this documentation its quality performance merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose As a result the documentation is licensed as is and you the licensee are ...

Page 4: ...eneral Description 15 Front Control Panel 15 16 The Real Time Clock 17 Floppy Disk Drives 17 Hard Disk Drives 18 CD ROM CD R W DVD ROM DVD RAM Drives 18 19 Inserting Removing CD s 20 System Memory 20 I O Ports and the Interface Panel 21 23 USB Ports 23 IEEE1394 Firewire 24 Serial ATA 25 AGP Advanced Graphics Port 26 5 Optional Features 28 Audio 28 Graphics Card 29 30 Modem 31 ...

Page 5: ...Omnino HS Quick Start Guide Ver 1 0 5 6 Troubleshooting 32 What to do if your system doesn t work 32 34 7 Glossary 38 Commonly used computer terms 35 39 8 Notes 40 43 9 Suggestions 44 ...

Page 6: ...r and manual s If you have purchased any alternative or optional products along with your system they will be included with the package along with appropriate support documentation Congratulations on purchasing your Omnino HS system This User Guide provides you with the information required to set up and use your Personal Computer system It should be read in conjunction with the accompanying mothe...

Page 7: ...consists of three main components the input devices keyboard mouse output devices monitor speakers and the main system unit also called the base unit Examples are shown below It is best if you give yourself a lot of space and then unpack each box It s easier to set up the computer when everything is in front of you Please follow these illustrated instructions Step 1 Unpacking your Omnino HS ...

Page 8: ... alternatives would give as much protection Viglen cannot be held responsible for any damage that occurs during transport Step 2 The unit can be lifted out and placed on your desk depending on your personal preferences As long as there is easy access to an AC mains socket position the unit so that the rear is easily accessible Place the Omnino HS keyboard and mouse on the desk to suit your require...

Page 9: ...ed your system either has an add in sound card or no audio available Note On certain models the ports maybe arranged differently ALWAYS match the cables with the colours specified Omnino HS Rear I O Shield Step 5 Connect the Mouse to the GREEN PS2 socket and the Keyboard to the PURPLE PS2 socket If you have a printer plug the printer parallel cable into the PURPLE parallel socket If you have a USB...

Page 10: ...eaker cable to the socket labelled OUT or marked with the following icon Or Plug your microphone into the socket labelled MIC or marked with the following icon If your Omnino HS has an on board sound card the audio ports will be located on the interface panel Connect the stereo speaker cable to the GREEN socket and plug your microphone into the PINK socket Both options are shown below Omnino HS I ...

Page 11: ...Gently press the computer ON OFF button located on the side of the system as shown below You are now ready to explore the features of your new Omnino HS computer Enjoy NOTE On most systems there is a cold on off switch on the back of the base unit next to the power socket This switch physically disconnects the computer from the power supply If your Omnino HS is not switching on try checking that t...

Page 12: ...trical circuits another person who is familiar with the power off controls should be nearby to switch off the power if necessary Use only one hand when working with powered on electrical equipment This is to avoid making a complete circuit which will cause electrical shock Use extreme caution when using metal tools which can easily damage any electrical components or circuit boards they come into ...

Page 13: ...ring that all connections have been made ESD Precautions Electrostatic discharge ESD is generated by two objects with different electrical charges coming into contact with each other An electrical discharge is created to neutralise this difference which can damage electronic components and printed circuit boards The following measures are generally sufficient to neutralise this difference before c...

Page 14: ...vity between the power supply the case the mounting fasteners and the motherboard Operating Precautions Care must be taken to assure that the chassis cover is in place when the Omnino HS is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the Omnino HS system can occur if this practice is not strictly followed ...

Page 15: ...ter s storage capacity A unit of storage is known as a byte or sometimes as an octet 1024 bytes is known as a Kilobyte or KB Following on in this fashion 1024KB is known as a Megabyte or MB and 1024MB is known as a Gigabyte or GB Your computer s RAM will have in the region of 32MB to 256MB storage capacity where your hard disk will have anything from 3 4GB to 18GB storage or even higher S ONY Omni...

Page 16: ... Auto Automatically adjusts the screen Left and Right arrow Navigates though the on screen menus Menu Accesses the on screen menu Power Switch The power switch is used to turn the system On and Off The Omnino HS has an advanced power management system which includes an electronic power switch With the advanced power management system the Operating System can turn the computer off automatically if ...

Page 17: ... or non volatile Information stored in volatile memory is lost when the power is switched off but with non volatile memory the information is retained The most important type of non volatile memory is obtained by storing information on magnetic media called disks or diskettes System Information is also stored in battery backed memory where a battery supplies power to maintain the information when ...

Page 18: ...disks can be packed in a far greater density Today hard disk storage capacity is measured in GB Gigabytes One GB is equivalent to 1 073 741 824 characters of information or bytes If a book had 80 characters on each line 40 lines of text on each page and 300 pages you d be able to fit all the information in the book onto a 3 4GB hard disk not once but over 3 803 times It is advised to keep your har...

Page 19: ...ility to write to blank CD R or CD RW media A CD R disc can only be written to once where as a CD RW disc can be written to and erased many times DVD ROM Drive DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk and is the successor to the standard CD ROM technology DVD drives have the ability to access over 17GB of information on a single DVD disk while maintaining backwards compatibility with standard CD ROM ...

Page 20: ...tep 2 If you insert an audio CD into your drive your computer will automatically start to play the first track on the CD System Memory Your Omnino HS will use some of the latest memory technology available at the time The system memory is volatile memory and is used by the computer as storage whilst it is operating All the information held in this memory is lost when the power is switched off To i...

Page 21: ...e peripheral types Most of the I O ports on the back of your Omnino HS have been conveniently grouped into one area This region of the PC is known as the Interface Panel Omnino HS Interface Panel Note Your system may be configured slightly differently to the diagram above The Games Speaker Line in and Mic in ports maybe on a separate add in card or you may not have audio at all in your configurati...

Page 22: ... It has been designed with ease of use in mind allowing you to plug in a USB peripheral and use it without restarting your computer There are two USB ports on your system Parallel port Burgundy Red The parallel port is also known as a Centronics port named after the company that originated the standard and is used mainly to connect printers or scanners to your computer Serial port Turquoise The se...

Page 23: ... Microphone The record level of the microphone can be adjusted via software The Mic in port includes a small amplifier and If you are recording from a powered source Hi Fi etc it s suggested you use the Line in for better sound quality If installed this port will either be located on the I O panel or on an add in card Speakers Green optional Connect your speakers or headphones to this stereo socke...

Page 24: ...ink is an industry standard for a scalable flexible easy to use low cost digital interface that integrates the world of consumer electronics and personal computers 1394 is a digital standard and does not require the conversion of digital data into analogue which means better signal integrity It supports guaranteed delivery of time critical data which enables high quality audio and video applicatio...

Page 25: ...e cables used Standard 6 pin port Standard 4 pin port 6 6 pin cable 4 4 pin cable 4 6 pin cable Serial ATA A disk interface technology developed to replace parallel ATA When most people think serial they tend to think of the serial ports found on the rear I O of a PC These asynchronous serial ports are very slow but synchronous serial offers greatly improved data throughput A typical asynchronous ...

Page 26: ...lieves the graphics bottleneck by adding a dedicated high speed interface directly between the chipset and the graphics controller as shown below AGP Standards There are two specifications that define AGP The AGP Specification revision 2 0 defines an interface supporting 1x and 2x speeds at 3 3V and 1x 2x and 4x speeds at 1 5V signalling The AGP3 0 specification defines a new signalling scheme for...

Page 27: ... the video signal cable of the monitor to the 15 pin VGA connector on the back of your computer The VGA port will either be on the Interface Panel or mounted on an add in card The port is labelled with the following icon 3 Turn on the computer 4 If necessary adjust the front panel controls accordingly to your personal preference ...

Page 28: ...ased audio with your Viglen Omnino HS there will either be a set of speakers supplied with the computer or built into the monitor The audio ports on your Omnino HS will either be located on the Interface Panel or on a separate add in card Either way the internationally accepted port icons will be the same SPEAKERS LINE IN MICROPHONE If your Omnino HS has external speakers supplied there will be a ...

Page 29: ...me controls on your speakers see the supplied documentation for further information WARNING Ensure your speaker system volume is turned down before you connect the speakers Graphics Card If a separate graphics card has been supplied with your system this section will look at the best way to set it up It is possible you have one of a number of I O options on the back plates of your graphics card th...

Page 30: ...card The monitor connector cable will only fit one way and can normally be screwed into the graphics card itself Variant 2 shows a typical example of a VGA card with TV Out The monitor connector cable will only fit one way and can normally be screwed into the graphics card itself The TV Composite video cable plugs straight into the TV Out socket ...

Page 31: ...our modem this section will explain how to set up each of the variants VARIENT 1 This modem may or may not have voice capabilities Please consult the Supplied documentation for further information VARIENT 2 LINE Connect to your phone socket LINE Connect to your phone socket Your modem has a line and a phone socket both are labelled Connect the cable supplied to the socket labelled line The other s...

Page 32: ...itch is in the ON position No Power No Lights on Front of the main system unit Check the fuse in mains plug If it has blown replace it with one of the same rating If the fuse blows persistently then unplug the power cable to the monitor and try again Problem Action Check the power light on the monitor If this is not lit then check that the monitor power ON OFF switch is in the ON position Check th...

Page 33: ...llowing a Check that the correct hard disk type is entered in the CMOS RAM by entering the SETUP routine Refer to the System manual for further information b Check that the leads to the hard disk and from the IDE controller are plugged in fully Try to boot from the floppy drive in drive A by placing the Windows start up disk in drive A and resetting the system Once your computer has booted up you ...

Page 34: ...et labelled keyboard at the rear of the main system unit If the Caps Lock LED lights up when pressed there is an electrical connection Problem Action The mouse is not being recognised The mouse is not plugged in correctly Solution Check mouse plug make sure the plug is inserted in the correct port The plug may become loose after prolonged use ...

Page 35: ...n a character or block of characters occur during a specific time interval The start of each character block can occur at any time during this interval Contrasts with synchronous AUTOEXEC BAT A special batch file which contains a series of commands that are to be executed when the computer is started up BASIC Beginner s All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code This is a simple programming language Ba...

Page 36: ...ame as a Byte CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor A logic circuit family that uses very little power COM1 COM2 The names given to the serial communications ports in COM3 COM4 DOS CONFIG SYS A special purpose file which has the configuration details for the computer to set itself to when powered up CPS Characters per second CSA Canadian Standards Association Cursor A bar on the screen that...

Page 37: ...Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface which specifies a fast hard disk interface FCC Federal Communications Commission Firmware A program that is resident in Read Only Memory ROM Floppy Disk A storage device consisting of a flexible magnetic disk inside a protective cover G A symbol used to represent the prefix Giga i e GB Giga Byte GB Gigabyte represents 1 07...

Page 38: ...ertz 1000 Hertz LIM Lotus Intel Microsoft Expanded Memory Manager specification LED Light Emitting Diode These are normally used as the lights on a computers front panel LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 Names given to the printer ports by DOS M Prefix mega Equivalent to 1024K mA Milliampere 0 001 Ampere MB Abbreviation for Mega Byte i e 1024K Bytes Mb Abbreviation for Mega Bits i e 1024K bits Memory An electronic c...

Page 39: ...g the same frequency relationship Contrasts with asynchronous TPI Tracks Per Inch TTL Transistor Transistor Logic TUV Technischer Uberwachungs Verein Organisation which tests and certifies electronic equipment UL Underwriter Laboratories American Organisation specifying standards for safety of electronic equipment USB Universal Serial Bus V Volt Unit of measurement of potential difference VAC Volt...

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Page 44: ...may like to answer and return to Viglen This will help Viglen help to keep and improve the standard of their manuals 1 Is the information provided in this and other manuals clear enough 2 What could be added to the manual to improve it 3 Does the manual go into enough detail 4 Would you like an on line version of this manual 5 How do you rate the Viglen Technical support and Service Departments ...

Page 45: ... 6 Are there any technological improvements that could be made to the system 1 Other points you would like to mention Please return this slip to Product Development Department Viglen Ltd Viglen House Alperton Lane Alperton Middlesex HA0 1DX ...

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