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This user's manual is designed to let you easily find the information you need to get the most
from your notebook.
Introduces you to the features of your notebook.
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Gives you the useful details on using your notebook.
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Tells you how to look after your notebook, whether at home or traveling.
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Introduces you to BIOS, the nervous system of your notebook, and how to change its
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fundamental settings.
There is no need to read the manual from the beginning to end. Simply find your way to the
section that interests you using the table of contents, or browse through the manual.
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Helpful pointers and tricks to get more from your notebook
To help you note and avoid possible damage to your notebook's hardware or software,
or loss of your work
Points out possible damage to property, personal injury or death
Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
© Compal Electronics, Inc. 2010. All rights reserved.
Trademarks used in this document: Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of
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About this User's Manual
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Page 1: About This User's Manual
Points out possible damage to property, personal injury or death Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © Compal Electronics, Inc. 2010. All rights reserved. Trademarks used in this document: Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
About this User’s Manual ..................... 1 Safety Instructions......................5 Specifications ......................12 Chapter 1 Introducing Your Notebook ..............16 Front and Rear Side..................... 17 1.1.2 Power LED (White) ................18 1.1.3 Battery LED (Green /Red) ( ) ............18 1.1.4 HDD accessing state Red LED ( ) .......... - Page 3 4.3 System Controls .................... 37 4.3.1 Buttons ....................37 4.3.2 System status indicators ..............37 4.4 Core BIOS Features ..................38 4.4.1 Multi Boot ..................38 4.4.2 Quiet Boot ..................38 4.4. 3 Boot Block..................38 4.5 Thermal management ..................39 4.6 Power Management for ACPI mode .............
- Page 4 4.10.2.1 CMOS Requirement for Debug Purpose........50 4.10.3 System Management BIOS(SM BIOS) version 2.7 (DMI 2.0) ..50 4.10.3.1 Default SMBIOS Value ..............51 4.10.4 EEPROM..................51 4.10.5 OEM Active 1.0/2.0/2.1 and KMS activation support..... 52 4.10.6 Multi Customer Logo Support ............52 4.11 System Setup ....................
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Page 5: Safety Instructions
Safety Instructions Use the following safety guidelines to help protect yourself and your notebook. General Warnings Do not operate your portable computer for an extended period of time with the base • resting directly on your body. With extended operation, heat can potentially build up in the base. - Page 6 If the battery pack leaks and the fluid enter your eyes, do not rub them. Instead, rinse your • eyes with clean running water and immediately seek medical attention. Otherwise, eye injury may be resulted. If acid leaking from the battery pack contacts your skin or clothing, immediately wash it •...
- Page 7 Place the AC adapter in a ventilated area, such as a desktop or on the floor, when you use • it to run the computer or to charge the battery. Do not cover the AC adapter with papers or other items that will affect its cooling; also, do not use the AC adapter while it is inside a carrying case.
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Page 8: Important Safety Instructions
Do not dispose of batteries in a fire. They may explode. Check with local authorities for disposal instructions. Do not use or leave the battery pack near a heat source. Heat can melt the insulation and damage other safety features, possibly leading it to leak acid, overheat, emit smoke, burst and/or ignite. -
Page 9: Fcc Notice
blocking these openings. This product should never be placed near or over a radiator or a heat register, or in an enclosure unless proper ventilation is provided. This product should be operated from the type of power indicated on the marking label. If you are not sure the type of power available, consult your dealer or local power company. - Page 10 particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of following measures: ·...
- Page 11 BSMI Notice (Taiwan Only) Most Compal computer products are classified by the Bureau of Standards, Meteorology and Inspection (BSMI) as Class B information technology equipment (ITE). This (marked on the product) indicates the product complies with the BSMI standard. 通告...
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Page 12: Specifications
Specifications Intel Ivy Bridge • Dual Core 2.4G/2.5G/2.6G/2.8G/2.9G • Chipset QM77 • Memory Support DDR3-1333MHz DDR3-1600MHz 2G/4G • Support 2 So-DIMMS, up to Max. 8GB • Display 14”, 3.6mm, 16:9 LED backlight LCD • HD 1366 x 768 • Graphics Chip •... -
Page 13: Pointing Device
Support Double Layer Recording is required • Blue-ray Combo DVD, high definition disc • Communication No modem • No PCI-Express • No WWAN • LAN: 10/100,1000 Giga LAN • WLAN only or W/L+BT Combo (Option)(WLAN-AMP enabled for BT3.0 • compatible) Note: For Motorola Bluetooth, please experience the BT function by Motorola's user friendly GUI, you can refer to Motorola BT help file from Taskbar -->... -
Page 14: Mini Card
1 Caps Lock (White) • 1 Num Lock (White) • 1 Power Button LED (White) • 1 LED for IDE HDD activity (Red) • 1 LED for System status (Power On / Suspend) (Green) • 1 LED for Battery status (Charging / Full / L1 / L2) (Green/Red) •... - Page 15 Regulatory EMI: FCC-B, CE, VCCI, BSMI • Safety: Compliant to UL/CSA, TUV, CB • WHQL LOGO • Environment Temperature: Operating: 5 - 35°C / Storage: -20 - 65°C • Humidity: 10 - 90% without condensation • Altitude: Operating sea level up to 10,000 ft •...
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Page 16: Chapter 1 Introducing Your Notebook
Chapter 1 Introducing Your Notebook... -
Page 17: Front And Rear Side
Front and Rear Side The following picture shows the front side of your notebook. 1 Web Camera 2 Caps Lock(White) 3 Microphone 4 Power Button 5 ON/OFF Button... -
Page 18: Power Led (White)
1.1.1 Power Key Buttons Press to turn your notebook on. Windows 7, which comes preinstalled, goes into the shutdown sequence automatically if you press the power button while on. In Windows 7, you can configure this in Control Panel > System and Maintenance or Hardware and Sound >... -
Page 19: Ac Adapter Connector
Left Side The following picture shows the left side of your notebook. DC-IN HDMI 1394(Option) eSATA USB2.0 New Card 1.1.7 AC Adapter Connector Use this connector to attach the AC adapter to your notebook. You can connect an AC adapter when your notebook is switched on or off. While the AC adapter works with electrical outlets worldwide, power connectors and power strips vary by country. -
Page 20: Right Side
Right Side The following picture shows the right side of your notebook. Smart Card ODD lED ODD Button Power USB Button Power USB*2 Kingston Lock 1.1.9 USB Ports Use this port to connect a USB device, such as a mouse, external keyboard, or printer to the computer. -
Page 21: Vga Port
While the AC adapter works with electrical outlets worldwide, power connectors and power strips vary by country. Ensure you use a compatible cable or correctly connect the cable to the power strip or electrical outlet. Failure to do so may cause fire or damage to equipment. 1.1.12 LAN (RJ-45) The LAN allows you to connect your notebook to an internet line with a standard RJ-45 connector. -
Page 22: Rear And Back Side
Rear and Back Side Kill Switch Button Bluetooth/Wireless/3D(Green) Card Reader System Status(Green) LCD Knob Battery(Green/Red) Earphone(Green) HDD(Red) Microphone(Red) Rj45... -
Page 23: Back Side
Back Side The following picture shows the back side of your notebook. Battery Knob L Battery Knob R 1.1.14 Battery latch Knob The Battery Latch Knob secures the battery pack. To release, slide the latch and then remove the battery pack from the bay. -
Page 24: Chapter 2 Caring For Your Notebook
Chapter 2 Caring for Your Notebook... -
Page 25: Caring For Your Notebook
2.1 Caring for Your Notebook Cleaning Your Notebook and Keyboard Cleaning the Display Cleaning the Touch Pad Cleaning the CD/DVD Drive Precautions... -
Page 26: Cleaning Your Notebook And Keyboard
Never spray cleaning products directly onto your notebook’s case or display. Only use products designed for cleaning computer displays. 2.1.1 Cleaning Your Notebook and Keyboard Shut your notebook down, turn it off and disconnect it from the electrical outlet and any external devices, such as the printer. -
Page 27: Precautions
2.1.5 Precautions Donot spill the liquid on the keyboard. If the liquid is spilt on the keyboard, turn • your notebook off immediately. Leave off overnight to let it completely dry out before using it again. Donot turn off your notebook if the drive light indicates the drive is active. •... -
Page 28: Traveling
2.2 Traveling Identifying Your Notebook Packing Your Notebook Traveling Tips If Your Notebook is Lost or Stolen... -
Page 29: Identifying Your Notebook
2.2.1 Identifying Your Notebook Attach a nametag or business card to your notebook, or use the permanent marker or stencil to write a unique identifying mark (such as your driver’s license number) on the case. Create a file on the Desktop called if found. Place information such as your name, address, and telephone number in this file. -
Page 30: If Your Notebook Is Lost Or Stolen
Ensure that you know which electrical outlets are used in the countries you will • visit, and prepare the appropriate power adapters. Check with your credit card company for information about any kinds of • emergency travel assistance it offers to the users of the portable computers. When traveling in the air, please ensure that you have a charged battery •... -
Page 31: Chapter 3 Peripherals
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Page 32: Sd/Mmc/Ms Cards
3.1 SD/MMC/MS Cards Installing a SD/MMC/MS Card Removing a SD/MMC/MS Card... -
Page 33: Installing A Sd/Ms/Mmc/Xd/Ms-Pro Card
Before removing an SD/MMC/MS card, stop it running from the configuration utility on the taskbar. Failure to do so could result in the data loss. 3.1.1 Installing a SD/MS/MMC/XD/MS-pro Card SD/MS/MMC/XD/MS-pro card, with hot-plug feature, allow you to install and remove cards when your notebook is running. -
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Page 35: Introduction
4.1 Introduction The BIOS (Basic Input and Output System) Setup program is a menu driven utility that enables you to make changes to the system configuration and tailor the operation of your notebook to your individual work needs. A ROM-based configuration utility displays the system’s configuration status and provides you with a tool to set system parameters. -
Page 36: Navigating Through The Bios Setup Program
4.2 Navigating through the BIOS Setup Program Accessing the BIOS Setup Program Launching Submenus Saving Changes and Exiting the Setup Program The Setup program has been designed to make it as easy to use as possible. It is a menu driven program, which means you can scroll through the various directories and make your selections among the various predetermined choices. -
Page 37: System Controls
4.3 System Controls 4.3.1 Buttons 4.3.1.1 Power Button The activity of the power button is as follows: If system is Off/Hibernate: System will be turned on while Power switch is • depressed by more than 100 ms If system is in Standby state: System will resume while Power switch is •... -
Page 38: Core Bios Features
4.4 Core BIOS Features 4.4.1 Multi Boot The notebook can support Multi-Boot for selecting the boot sequence of Hard Drive, Removable Devices, CD-ROM/DVD Drive and Network in Setup. 4.4.2 Quiet Boot Quiet Boot replaces the customary technical messages during POST with a more visually pleasing and comfortable display (OEM screen). -
Page 39: Thermal Management
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Page 40: Power Management For Acpi Mode
4.6 Power Management for ACPI mode 4.6.1 Introduction The notebook supports ACPI. The system will dynamically switch to ACPI mode for configuration and power management when an ACPI OS is loaded. When ACPI is not loaded and enabled, the power management function will be disabled. -
Page 41: Device Power Management
disk prior to power off the whole system. 4.6.4 Device Power Management Under ACPI mode, the device specific power management supported by this notebook includes the CPU throttling, monitor power management and the hard disk. 4.6.4.1 CPU power management ACPI mode •... -
Page 42: Hibernation
LAN (On board) Yes(AC mode only) Yes(AC mode only) Yes(AC mode only) Yes(AC mode only) Critical low battery Field ‘Process required’ identifies that further process for the occurred events must be processed during wake up or resumes procedure. 4.6.4.4.1 LAN LAN (On board) S3(Standby): LAN is supported wake-up from S3 w/ AC/DC mode S4(Hibernation)/S5: LAN just only support wake-up from S4/S5 w/ AC only... -
Page 43: Acpi (Advanced Configuration And Power Interface)
4.7 ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) 4.7.1 Introduction The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a well-specified power management and configuration mechanism. It evolves the existing collection of power management codes, APM, PnP BIOS, and Etc. 4.7.2 ACPI Sleep Status BIOS must support the following sleep states –... -
Page 44: Storage Devices And Batteries
RTC Alarm(Only in AC mode) Press Lid switch / Sleep Button (Fn+F2) / Power Button (depends on ACPI OS setting) User selects the Standby Option in the Windows Shut Down menu ACPI OS timer expired Critical /Low battery (depends on ACPI OS setting) Press Lid switch/ Sleep Button (Fn+F2) / Power Button (depends on ACPI OS setting) User selects the Hibernate Option in the Windows Shut... -
Page 45: Bootable Device
4.7.6 Bootable Device The system is capable of booting from onboard HDD, CD ROM, DVD-ROM, external USB Floppy and USB ATA Flash device. 4.7.7 Embedded controller The keyboard controller will act as the ACPI embedded controller and support the ACPI EC protocol and interface. -
Page 46: Pc2001
4.8 PC2001 The notebook must meet Microsoft Logo requirements in accordance with the PC2001 Guide and the Microsoft Logo test programs. -
Page 47: Miscellaneous Features
4.9 Miscellaneous Features 4.9.1 BIOS ROM It depends on the platform design architecture (sharer ROM or Non-Sharer ROM, Intel ME SKU and so on). Non-Sharer ROM: SBIOS and EC BIOS have each SPI ROM chip separately, the EEPROM is inside EC BIOS area, BIOS will copy a full set of EEPROM data to SBIOS ROM at the first POST or EEPROM data is updated to speed up the EEPROM access. -
Page 48: Vga Support
After POST, release <Fn+B> key. The system should boot from floppy and perform crisis recovery action. 4.9.5 VGA Support This section describes the expected behavior when a video monitor is connected to the VGA port on the notebook .The feature needs VGA driver support. The BIOS will use both the RGB and pin 11 methods to determine the presence of an external VGA monitor. -
Page 49: Wireless Control
the worst-case drive configuration (internal or external) and worst-case memory configuration available via the retail channels. The POST time testing environment does not include attachable devices such as USB keyboards, external monitors, printers, PC Cards, Port Replicators and etc. Note: if have TPM device, the BIOS POST Time should add extra 300 microseconds for initial. -
Page 50: Customer Specific Features
4.10 Customer Specific Features 4.10.1 Display of System Type and BIOS Version Number on Boot The development BIOS Version should start from 0.01 and the formal BIOS for MP should start from 1.00. 4.10.2 CMOS RAM management For UEFI Code, CMOS just reserve for kernel code/Chipset code, the variable storage had been replaced by flash part. -
Page 51: Default Smbios Value
4.10.3.1 Default SMBIOS Value Name Default Value System Serial Number 123456789 Manufacturer name Compal System version F.01 System product name %project code% 4.10.4 EEPROM There is one EEPROM that is used to store many important system and user data in the notebook (some data are reserved for future to use)). -
Page 52: Oem Active 1.0/2.0/2.1 And Kms Activation Support
Keyboard BIOS used 1 byte for Keyboard BIOS used Branding 1 byte for Branding. KMS active flag Reserved for keyboard F5h – F6h Reserved 2 bytes for keyboard used Unused F7h – FDh Unused Assettag number 200h – 23Fh 64 bytes for DMI Type 3 LAN MAC Address 240h –... - Page 53 To support Multi customer Logo, BIOS will merge dummy OEM logo in BIOS as default, and customer should create customized BIOS with OEM Logo. Please refer to the “How to update OEM Logo” for the detail instruction of customized BIOS creation.
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Page 54: System Setup
4.11 System Setup 4.11.1 Invoking setup The setup function can be invoked by pressing F2 when “Press <F2> to enter Setup” message is prompted on the bottom of screen during POST. During setup, all Fn function keys and power saving functions are disabled. 4.11.2 Main Menu InsydeH20 Setup Utility Main... - Page 55 Help ↑↓ Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults Esc Exit ← → Select Screen Enter Select>SubMenu F10 Save and Exit System Time and System Date The hour is displayed with 24-hour format. The values set in these two fields take effect immediately.
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Page 56: Advanced
INCREASE/REDUCE:+/-. [hh:mm:ss]This is the help for the second field. Vaild range is from 0 to 59. INCREASE/REDUCE:+/-. System Date [mm:dd:yy]This is the help for the month field. Vaild range is from 1 to 12.(Error checking will be done against month/day/year combinations that are not supported.) INCREASE/REDUCE:+/-. - Page 57 Screen Num lock Enter this menu, you can choose the ON or Off in this submenu. Peripheral Configuration Enter this menu, it can display thesubmenu: “Bluetooth <Enable>” “Wlan <Enable>” “Camera <Enable>” “Card Read <Enable>” “Azalia <Auto>” You can select Enabled or Disabled in the above submenu, and in the submenu “Azalia <Auto>”...
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Page 58: Security Menu
Peripheral Configuration Configures the peripheral devices. Virtualization Technology Enable/Disable. Configure SATA As Set Harddisk Controller Configure Type. Express Card Control the PCI Express Root Port. POST HotKey Delay Customizable amount of time for the user to press HotKey at POST. UMA Share Memory Size Select DVMT5.0 Pre-Allocated(Fixed) Graphics Memory size used by the Internal Graphics Device. -
Page 59: Boot Menu
Help ↑↓Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults Esc Exit ← → Select Enter Select >SubMenu F10 Save and Exit Screen TPM Status Show the TPM status: “Enable and Active” or “Disable and Deactive” TPM Operation Enable/Disable TPM Function. This option will automatically return to No-Operation. Supervisor Password Show the Password status: Clear or Set Set Supervisor Password... -
Page 60: Exit Menu
XXXXXXXXXX USB HDD : XXXXXXXXXX USB CDROM : XXXXXXXXXX Network boot: Boot Device Status： Floppy Drive <Enabled> CD/DVD-ROM Drive <Enabled> Network boot <Enabled> Help ↑↓Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults Esc Exit ← → Select Enter Select >SubMenu F10 Save and Exit Screen Help information... - Page 61 Exit Saving Changes Allows the user to save changes to NV Storage and reboot system. The following message is prompted when user press “Enter” on the item. Exit Saving Changes? [Yes] [No] Yes: Save Changes, Exit SETUP and reboot No: Back to previous screen Exit Discarding Changes Allows the user to discard changes and continue the boot operation.
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Page 63: Windows Update
4.13 ME Firmware Update ME FW Update allows an end user, such as an IT administrator, to update the ME firmware without having to reprogram the entire flash device. The image file that the tool uses for the update is not the image file used to create the complete SPI firmware image file.