Table Of Contents - NEC Versa Note Series Service And Reference Manual

Battery Pack ..............................................................................................................1-35
Internal Modem Module Card....................................................................................1-36
PortBar......................................................................................................................1-36
Installation And Upgrade....................................................2-1
Overview...............................................................................................................................2-2
Notebook Drivers and Utilities...............................................................................................2-2
Notebook Drivers Installation Flowchart......................................................................2-3
Running The Phdisk Std Utility .................................................................................2-4
Installing The Cd-Rom Driver.....................................................................................2-5
Installing The Vga Device Driver................................................................................2-6
Installing The Audio Device Driver...............................................................................2-7
Installing The Glidepad Mouse Driver...........................................................................2-9
Installing The Fast Irda Driver (Windows 95 Only) ....................................................2-10
Installing The Usb Driver ..........................................................................................2-12
Installing The Intel Pci Bridge Driver (Windows 95 Only) ..........................................2-13
System Upgrades .................................................................................................................2-14
Jumper Settings .........................................................................................................2-14
Cpu Upgrade Procedure............................................................................................2-15
Memory Upgrade Procedure ......................................................................................2-16
Hard Disk Upgrade Procedure....................................................................................2-18
System Bios Upgrade Procedure ..............................................................................2-19
Software Functional Overview ..........................................3-1
Overview...............................................................................................................................3-2
Summary of the BIOS Specification.......................................................................................3-2
Subsystem Software Functions...............................................................................................3-3
Key Chipset Summary .................................................................................................3-3
System Memory...........................................................................................................3-4
Video...........................................................................................................................3-4
Enhanced Ide..............................................................................................................3-7
Audio ..........................................................................................................................3-7
Super I/O.....................................................................................................................3-7
Pcmcia .....................................................................................................................3-8
LED Indicator..............................................................................................................3-8
Customer Id Support...................................................................................................3-9
Hot Keys Definition.....................................................................................................3-9
Port Replicator (Docking Station) ..............................................................................3-10
Plug And Play.............................................................................................................3-11
Pci Device ................................................................................................................3-12
Smbus Devices .........................................................................................................3-13
Resource Allocation...................................................................................................3-13
Power Management .............................................................................................................3-15
General Requirements................................................................................................3-15
System Power Plane ..................................................................................................3-16
Power Management Mode Definitions .......................................................................3-18
Device Power Management .......................................................................................3-21
Acpi ...................................................................................................................................3-23
General Requirements................................................................................................3-23
Global System State Definitions.................................................................................3-24
Sleeping State Definitions..........................................................................................3-24
Power States ..............................................................................................................3-25
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