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- Page 1 M2A1 User’s Manual Version 1.4 September 18, 2009 DOC REG [M2_UM_V1.4_EN]...
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Page 2: Preface
Preface Please read this section before using your computer. Retain this manual for future reference. Copyright This publication, including all photographs, illustrations and software, is protected under international copyright laws, with all rights reserved. Neither this manual nor any of the material contained herein may be reproduced without written consent of the manufacturer. -
Page 3: Declaration Of Conformity
device. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the system's manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. Declaration of Conformity This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, and This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. -
Page 4: Contact Service
Contact Service Disconnect your computer from power and contact qualified service personnel if any of the following occurs: Liquid has been spilled on your computer. Your computer does not operate correctly when operating instructions are followed. Your computer has been dropped or the case is broken open. The performance of your computer is seriously degraded. -
Page 5: Table Of Contents
Table of Content PREFACE..........................1 Copyright..............................1 Disclaimer ..............................1 Trademark Recognition ..........................1 Federal Communications Commission (FCC)..................1 Declaration of Conformity .......................... 2 FCC Caution..............................2 FCC Radiation Exposure Statement......................2 Class 1 Laser Product Caution ........................2 FCC Wireless Regulations.......................... 2 Safety Information............................ - Page 6 Use Touchpad ............................17 Use Control Center............................ 19 Use Display ..............................20 Connect to Local Area Network ....................... 21 Connect to Wireless Local Area Network ....................22 Connect to Wireless Wide Area Network (Optional)................22 Use Bluetooth Services ..........................23 Use USB Devices............................
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Page 7: Chapter 1. Taking A Tour Of Your Computer
Chapter 1. Taking A Tour of Your Computer Right View 1 Audio-out jack 2 Microphone-in jack USB connector 4 RJ-45 connector 5 AC power connector Kensington lock Left View 1 Monitor (VGA) connector 2 USB connector 3 USB connector Front View 1 Card reader 2 Power switch 3 Master power switch of built-in wireless modules... -
Page 8: Bottom View
Bottom View Memory slot Hard disk connector Battery bay - 7 -... -
Page 9: Top View
Top View 1 Web Cam 2 LCD 3 Speakers Keyboard 5 Touchpad 6 Touchpad buttons LED Lights: A1 GPS A2 WWAN A3 WiFi A4 Bluetooth A5 Caps Lock A6 NumLk A7 Hard Disk Drive A8 Battery charge - 8 -... -
Page 10: Chapter 2. Taking Care Of Your Computer
Chapter 2. Taking Care of Your Computer Safety Information When you use your computer for the first time, it is recommended that the computer should be operated with battery equipped and connected to external power. After installing battery, make sure the latch is slid to lock position, so that battery won’t fall out and get damaged. -
Page 11: Tips On Correct Use
devices and battery are disconnected. Cleaning LCD: Since LCD attracts dust due to static electricity and gets stained by fingerprints, it is recommended that you should wipe the LCD with a soft cloth made specially for cleaning LCD. If the contamination cannot be removed, moisten the cloth with water or a diluted glass cleaner. - Page 12 The booting up and shutting down of your computer are the times when the hard disk drive is most fragile because the revolutional speed of the spindle is still unstable. If vibration occurs at that moment, hard disk sectors are subject to damage.
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Page 13: Chapter 3. Getting Started With Your Computer
Chapter 3. Getting Started with Your Computer This chapter explains how to power up your computer for the first time: Install battery. Connect AC Adapter. Power on your computer. Activate operating system. Install Battery This computer is provided with a swappable chargeable battery. A standard package version provides a battery of standard capacity while an extended package version provides an extended battery of more capacity that enables longer power-consumption time. -
Page 14: Power On
Connect AC adapter: Connect the power cord to AC adapter. Connect the AC adapter to the AC power connector on your computer. Connect the power cord to an electrical outlet. (The battery charge will light.) Power On Once you are done with the connection of AC adapter, you can proceed to power on your computer. -
Page 15: Chapter 4. Using Your Computer
Chapter 4. Using Your Computer This chapter will guide you through various features of this computer and the usage. Use Keyboard Keyboard functions as the main input device. Your computer has a keyboard of 82 keys which emulates a standard keyboard with additional Fn hotkeys, Windows® key and a numeric keypad. - Page 16 To discard the selected characters or the character delete key ahead of the cursor's position. pause/break To interrupt the running program. punctuation 11 punctuation keys that are commonly used. keys numeric keys 10 numeric keys ～ This key moves the cursor one position backwards, backspace deletes the preceding character, and shifts back the text after it by one position.
- Page 17 Fn + F4: Puts your computer in suspend mode. Fn + F5: Puts your computer to hibernation mode. Fn + F6: Decreases the volume. Fn + F7: Increases the volume. Fn + F8: Mutes/enables the volume. Fn + F9: Enables/disables the built-in wireless local area networking module (WiFi).
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Page 18: Use Touchpad
To show [Windows Help and Support] window. ￭ +CTRL+F: To find computers. ￭ To open [Run] dialogue. ￭ to open Utility Manager. Use Touchpad The Touchpad consists of a pad and two click-buttons. The left and right click-buttons correspond to the left and right buttons on a mouse. Slide your finger over the Touchpad in the direction you want the pointer to move on the screen. -
Page 19: Left And Right Touchpad Buttons
Double-tap: Tap your finger twice quickly on the Touchpad to select or execute the object that is being pointed on screen. Such tapping emulates double-clicking left mouse button. Drag: Move the pointer onto the object you are going to drag. Tap on the Touchpad twice quickly and hold your finger there upon the second finger-down. -
Page 20: Use Control Center
Use Control Center With Control Center, you can easily and quickly enable/disable various commonly-used built-in modules and change settings such as volume, display brightness, putting your computer to suspend/hibernation modes. With this utility, you can also check system health such as CPU/system/battery temperatures, fan speed, and battery power. Open Control Center Control Center is a resident application program that is automatically enabled upon system’s startup and featured in the notification area by the icon,... -
Page 21: Use Display
Click to enable/disable wireless local area networking module (WiFi). (Click the button to turn on/off the module. When the blue dot besides lights, the module is turned on.) Click to enable/disable Bluetooth module. (Click the button to turn on/off the module. When the blue dot besides lights, the module is turned on.) Click to show/hide the right/right panels. -
Page 22: Connect To Local Area Network
such as resolution adjustment. Connect External Display Connect the signal cable of the external display to the D-sub connector on your computer. Press Fn+F1 to switch between displays. Press Fn+F1 repeatedly to switch among three display modes: computer display only, external display only, and both. -
Page 23: Connect To Wireless Local Area Network
Connect to Wireless Local Area Network Your computer is built-in with a wireless local area networking module that meets IEEE 802.11 b/g standard, which enables your computer to connect to any Access Point within the signal radius that meets the same communication standard and permits the accessing. Once your computer is connected to an Access Point, you will be able to access the files and services shared by the computers or devices on that network. -
Page 24: Use Bluetooth Services
bay. Insert the SIM card into the slot. SIM card would be push-locked. To remove the SIM card: Power off the computer and remove the battery pack. Push-eject the SIM card. Remove the SIM card. Note: If the SIM card cannot be push-inserted, make sure if it is inserted in the right direction before re-insertion. - Page 25 To make Bluetooth connection: Enable Bluetooth Module Press Fn+F11 or the Bluetooth button in Control Center to enable Bluetooth module. (When the module is enabled, the blue dot lights on.) Once the module is enabled, the Bluetooth icon in the notification area turns to blue and a message “Bluetooth hardware found.”...
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Page 26: Use Usb Devices
Use USB Devices There are three Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors on your computer. You can connect USB devices such as mouse, keyboards, or printer to either connector. Connect Plug your USB device to one of the USB connectors on your computer. System will detect the device you just connect. -
Page 27: Use Card Reader
Open your favorable application that supports video messaging, such as MSN and Yahoo Massage. For more information about using your web camera, see the online help of your application program. If the computer you purchased doesn’t have an operating system preinstalled, you have to install the driver for the web camera yourself. -
Page 28: Use Gps (Optional)
Note: Attentions for Using Card Reader: Distinguish the upside and downside of your memory card before inserting it. The memory card won’t be able to be inserted upside down. Do not remove the memory card before it is safely removed by the system, so as to avoid damage to the files stored in it. - Page 29 Adjust Sound To adjust sound, use the sound utility. Double-click on the icon of sound utility in the notification area to configure speaker, microphone, and line-in. For more information, check the Help of the sound utility. - 28 -...
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Page 30: Chapter 5. Advance
Chapter 5. Advance BIOS Setup Utility BIOS is the short form for Basic Input/Output System. It is the firmware interface stored on the hardware of a PC. It functions for the following: Power-On Self Test (POST): Testing if the states of CPU, memory and other controllers are normal. - Page 31 (1) Main Menu (2) Setup Options (3) Item Specific Help (4) Keyboard Operation Guide Keyboard Operation Use these left & right arrow keys to select menus on menu bar. Use these up & down arrow keys to select fields in current menu. Selects next higher value.
- Page 32 The Setup Main Menu System Time Sets system time, fields in [hh:mm:ss] System Date Sets system date, fields in [mm/dd/yyyy] IDE Channel 0 Master Displays the information of the primary IDE device that connects to computer’s Serial-ATA connector. System will generate the information of such device itself.
- Page 33 BIOS Date Displays BIOS version date. EC Firmware Displays EC Firmware version. Main board Displays motherboard version. Keyboard Displays keyboard language. CPU Type Displays the information of CPU. CPU Speed Displays CPU speed. Advanced Menu Frame Buffer Size Allocates frame buffer size, which is set to [128 MB] by default.
- Page 34 [Other] by default. Reset Configuration Data Selects if to reset extended system configuration data, which is set to [No] by default. Extended Memory Testing Selects if to test extended memory. Security Menu Supervisor Password Is Displays computer’s supervisor password state. Clear represents no password being set up yet while Set represents otherwise.
- Page 35 Virus check reminder Displays virus reminder message at boot (daily, weekly, or monthly). It is set to [Disabled] by default. System backup reminder Displays backup reminder message at boot (daily, weekly, or monthly). It is set to [Disabled] by default. Password on boot Displays the state of boot password, which is set to [Disabled] by default.
- Page 36 Boot Menu Boot priority order Configures boot device priority. The priority descends from 1 to 8. Press < + > and < - > keys to move the device up or down. Excluded from boot order Excludes or includes the device to boot. - 35 -...
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Page 37: System Recovery
Exit Menu Exit Saving Changes Exit BIOS Setup and save changes to CMOS. Exit Discarding Changes Exit BIOS Setup without saving changes to CMOS. Load Setup Defaults Load default values for all setup items. Discard Changes Load previous values from CMOS for all setup items. Save Changes Save changes to CMOS. - Page 38 If your hard disk drive is damaged already, you won’t be Note able to recover your system by its hidden partition. If the hard disk drive is still readable, be sure to back up your computer files before recovery. Make sure your computer is running on external power whether before or during the system recovery, so that system recovery won’t fail due to power outage, which further leads to the difficulty in booting up your computer.
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Page 39: Appendix
Appendix Power Specification DC-in Power Supply (through DC-in Power Jack) Input rating: 19Vdc, 3.42A AC Adapter Model No.: ADP-65HB Input rating: 110~240V, 1.5A, 50~60HZ Output rating: 19V, 3.42A Battery 48Wh 3-cell rechargeable battery pack Charging: direct DC charging - 38 -...