Asus L7 User Manual

NOTEBOOK PC

DRIVERS & UTILITIES

INSTALLATION & USER’S GUIDE

(WINDOWS 98)

User’ s Notice (Support CD)

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Product Name: Support CD Manual Revision: 1.00 E312/E314 Release Date: December 1998

Contents

User’s Notice (Support CD)......................................................................2

Using New Hard Disk Drives....................................................................4

Flashing the BIOS .................................................................................... 6

New Operating System ............................................................................7

Microsoft Windows 98.......................................................................... 7

Support CD for Windows 98.....................................................................8

Y AMAHA Audio ........................................................................................9

YAMAHA Software (optional) ................................................................... 11

VGA Driver ...............................................................................................13

Setting the Display ...................................................................................15

Control Panel ...........................................................................................17

Lynx Display Properties .......................................................................18

TouchPad .................................................................................................19

Fast IR Driver ........................................................................................... 21

PC-cillin .................................................................................................... 23

Other Support CD Options ....................................................................... 24

Alps Mouse Utility .................................................................................. 25

Using New Hard Disk Drives

When you purchase a new hard disk drive, there will not be any partitions on it unless it was preconfigured for your Notebook PC by your dealer . Partitions are necessary for a hard disk drive to accept data. Booting to W indows requires that the active partition be within the maximum of 2GB, therefore at least two partitions are necessary for the standard hard disk drive of 3GB. With two partitions, you will see drive letters “C:\>” and “D:\>”. Because the Suspend-to-Disk partition is not user-accessible, it does not have a drive letter . Each additional partition will create another drive letter and the built-in CD-ROM will then add its own drive letter to the end.

NOTE: Formatting will not be allowed on non-partitioned hard disk drives and formatting hard disk drives will not remove partitions.

Creating a Bootable Diskette

A bootable system diskette is necessary to enter the command prompt when there are no active system partition on your hard disk drive. T o create a bootable floppy diskette, type “FORMAT A:/ S” from the DOS prompt or use W indow’s format (from “My Computer”) and check “Copy system files.” Y ou must copy FDISK.EXE and other DOS utilities from the “C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND” directory of W indows 95 or 98. Do not include AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS system files on the boot disk because some utilities cannot be used with memory managers usually loaded through the AUT OEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS system files.

Creating a Suspend-to-Disk Partition

If you wish to use the Suspend-to-Disk utility any time in the future, you must have a Suspend-toDisk partition. The Suspend-to-Disk partition must be created before other partitions are used because the other partitions will be removed. If you decide in the future that you do not want the Suspend-to-Disk partition, the Suspend-to-Disk partition may be removed using FDISK.EXE without affecting other partitions. The Supend-to-Disk partition will occupy its own space on the hard disk drive that cannot be used for other purposes. The “Suspend-to-Disk” function requires the “Power Management” mode to be configured for this function in the BIOS setup.

1. Boot from a system diskette with the “PHDISK.EXE” utility.

2. Type “PHDISK/CREATE 165000” then press [Enter].

Using New Hard Disk Drives (Cont’)

The option “165000” is to tell PHDISK.EXE to create a 165,000 byte partition. The reason why 165MB is required is so that the Notebook PC maximum memory size of 160Mbytes can be supported. The 165MB Suspend-to-Disk partition on the hard disk drive guarantees that all of the data in the memory can be stored on this partition regardless of your memory upgrades. If you do not specify “165000,” PHDISK.EXE will create a partition which is a slightly larger than the system’ s current memory size. Future memory upgrades will not allow the use of the Suspend-to-Disk without recreating the Suspend-to-Disk partition. The problem is that the PHDISK.EXE utility will remove all other partitions when used.

Using the FDISK.EXE Utility

The FDISK.EXE utility can add or remove partitions on a hard disk drive. This utility is only required if the hard disk drive is new and has never been formatted or used (remember the ability to format a hard disk drive means that there is at least one partition). You do not need to use this utility after formatting a hard disk drive. Be careful not to remove existing partitions that you may need, you will not be able to recover it!

1. Boot from a system diskette with the “FDISK.EXE” utility.

2. Type “FDISK” from the “A:\>” prompt, then press [Enter].

3. Create a primary partition and set it active by following the on-screen menu, and also

create extended partitions if needed.

Formatting the Hard Disk Drive

Formatting a hard disk drive actually only erases all the data on one partition. In order to erase data on other partitions, you must specify those drive letters when using the format utility . The /S command will place system files on the partition to allow bootup. T ype “FORMAT /?” for a list of other options.

1. Boot from a system diskette with the “FORMAT.COM” utility.

2. Type “FORMAT C: /S” from the “A:\>” prompt then press [Enter].

3. Type “Y”, then press [Enter] to confirm format.

4. Enter a Volume label, or press [Enter] to leave blank.

Flashing the BIOS

The BIOS contains information for the Notebook PC’ s hardware. Newer versions of the BIOS may include new features and bug fixes. New bug fixes will include all previous fixes so only the newest version is needed. Each BIOS image file is customized for a specific product and model. Do not try to use a BIOS image file that was not intended for your Notebook PC. W ith the wrong BIOS, your Notebook PC may not bootup and will require servicing. Use the utility “PHLASH.EXE” (pronounced “flash”) to update (or “flash”) your Notebook PC’s BIOS. NOTE: Any user-defined changes in the BIOS configuration will be lost. Write down specific settings that you made in the BIOS setup before using this utility .

1. Boot from a system diskette with the “PHLASH” utility, PLATFORM.BIN, and BIOS image (e.g. ls-0103a) files. (If downloading from the internet, you will have to UNZIP the files to the diskette.)

2. Type “phlash/mode=3 ls-0103a” (use the name of your new BIOS image file) and press [ENTER].

3. The PHLASH utility will automatically update the BIOS. When the BIOS has been successfully programmed, you will be asked to press any key to restart the system. If the system does not restart, power OFF the Notebook PC and then turn ON the power.

4. Assuming that you have successfully flashed the BIOS, press [F2] on system bootup to enter the BIOS setup. Select the “Load Setup Defaults” on the “Exit” menu and then [Enter]. Go back to the other menus if you require BIOS configuration changes (previous BIOS settings will be lost after updating the BIOS). Then select “Exit Saving Changes” to exit the BIOS setup. If the screen resolution has changed after you restart the Notebook PC, change your “Screen area” to 1024 by 768 pixels and “Colors” to High Color (16 bit) through Settings in “Display Properties”.

New Operating System

CD-ROM Support Under MS-DOS

When installing an operating system on an empty hard disk drive, a DOS real-mode CD-ROM driver needs to be loaded in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files in order to use the CDROM drive. The floppy disk drive can be used without any device drivers. PCMCIA cards are not recommended under DOS but, if necessary , you may consult your PCMCIA card documentation or dealer for configuration under the DOS environment. The CD-ROM device driver should be preconfigured from the factory as follows (because hardware and software are constantly improved or customized for a particular market, the examples in the software section may not exactly reflect your Notebook PC.

CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=C:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:0EMCD001 AUTOEXEC.BAT: MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:D

Microsoft Windows 98

Microsoft W indows 98 may be pre-installed on your Notebook PC. If installation or configuration changes are necessary , please refer to the documentation provided with the W indows 98 operating system. Once Windows 98 is running, you should use the Windows 98 CD-ROM device driver instead of the DOS real-mode CD-ROM driver . A DOS driver has poor performance, poor memory management, and may cause conflicts with other devices.

Removing the DOS real-mode CD-ROM driver

Removing the device line or adding “REM” (upper or lower case) in front of the line will disable the DOS driver and allow Windows 98 to use its own CD-ROM device driver. Windows 98 may already add the letters “REM” in front of the DOS CD-ROM drivers in AUTOEXEC.BA T such as:

CONFIG.SYS: rem - By W indows Setup - DEVICE=C:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:0EMCD001 AUTOEXEC.BAT: rem - By Windows Setup - MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:D

If running W indows 98 setup, it will automatically check for real-mode drivers and guide you using a wizard to remove undetected ones. If these two lines exist and do not have “REM” in front, add them yourself by opening the files with NOTEPAD.EXE provided by Windows or EDIT.COM provide by DOS or you may simply delete these two lines.

Support CD for Windows 98

The support CD included with the Notebook PC provides all the necessary drivers and utilities in order for you to use your Notebook PC. The following pages will give step-by-step installation procedures for typical system configurations. For application usage, please see the on-line help provided with each of the applications after installation. The following is what you will see when you insert the support CD. If the autorun menu does not appear, double clicking the CD-ROM disc drive icon (the letter (E:) drive on hard disk drives with two partitions) or running SETUP.EXE located in the root of the support CD, will bring up the autorun menu.

Y AMAHA Audio

This is necessary in order for your operating system to have the correct audio drivers for your Notebook PC’ s built-in audio. Windows 98 cannot contain all the device drivers from every manufacture, with every update; therefore the provided support CD will contain the best driver for your built-in audio. You may skip this software if your audio drivers were pre-configured at the time of purchase.

Installation Procedure

1. Insert the support CD. (You may exit the autorun screen.)

2. Right-click on My Computer icon and choose Properties.

3. Click the Device Manager tab.

4. Under Sound, video and game control- lers, select Gameport Joystick. (Click the plus sign or double click a component heading to expand the component items.)

5. Click Remove, and then click OK.

6. Double-click YAMAHA OPL3-SAx WDM Driver, and then click Properties.

Y AMAHA Audio (Cont’)

7. Select the Driver tab and click Update Driver.

8. Click Next to search for updated drivers.

9. Click Next again to let Windows search

for you.

10.Select Specify a location and type in the CD path: E:\AUDIO\WIN98.

11.Click Finish, and then click Close twice to exit.

YAMAHA Software (optional)

The YAMAHA YSTA TION32 software, which consists of CD, MIDI, WAVE and MIX players, is included on your support CD and supports the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, T raditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Installation Procedure

1. Insert the support CD.

2. Click Browse this CD from the autorun

menu.

3. Double-click the Audio and the Appli

folders.

4. Double-click SETUP .EXE in the “Appli”

folder.

5. Click Next on the “Welcome” screen.

6. Click Typical on the “Setup Options”

screen.

7. Click Next (or Browse to change the

destination directory) on the “Choose Destination Location” screen.

8. Click Yes to create a new directory or to

replace an existing directory.

9. Click Next to allow changes to your

AUTOEXE.BAT file. Your original file will be saved to another name.

10.Click OK on the “Information” window.

YAMAHA Software (Cont’)

11.Click Next to allow changes to your DOSSTART.BAT file. Your original file will be saved to another name.

12.Click OK on the “Information” window.

13.Wait while files are copied to your computer.

14.After copying is finished, click Next to create a program folder.

15.Click OK to exit the installation program.

You may run the YSTATION32 from the newly created program folder but future W indows sessions require you to run it through Start | Pro-

grams | Accessories | Yamaha | YSTATION32.

VGA Driver

This is necessary in order for your operating system to have the correct video drivers for your Notebook PC’s built-in graphics. Windows 98 cannot contain all the device drivers from every manufacturer, with every update; therefore the provided support CD will contain the best driver for your built-in graphics.

Installation Procedure

1. Insert the support CD. (You may exit the autorun screen.)

2. Right-click on the desktop and select Properties, then click the

Settings tab, and the Advanced button.

3. Click the Adapter tab, and then click Change.

4. Click Next to search for updated drivers.

VGA Driver (Cont’)

5. Click Next again to let Windows search

for you.

6. Select Specify a location and type in the CD path: E:\VGA\WIN98.

7. Click Next when you see “Windows driver file search for the device”

8. You may be asked for the location of the driver again.

9. Enter the location of the driver in the support CD: E:\VGA\WIN98 and then click OK.

10.Click Finish, and then click Yes to restart Windows.

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