Elitegroup EZ Install v.1

Introduction:

Thank you for purchasing this new high-performance EZ-Buddie 2 series product. The EZ-Buddie 2 is, despite its’
compactness, a combination of a computer and personal entertaining unit. Some of the great features are:

EZ-Cinema and remote control

The EZ-Buddie 2 series comes with an operating mode called “EZ-Cinema”. This makes your EZ-Buddie 2 not only a
mini-sized computer but also an entertaining unit. The ready-to-go feature of the EZ-Cinema spares you the long wait
for the Windows booting, and allows you to directly play your favorite music, movies, pictures (optional), and even TV
programs (optional), a pleasure to get a easier digital life. Your EZ-Buddie2 comes with an ultra-thin remote control.
Using this remote control you can remotely choose to play a song or movie. As for the usage of the controls, the
simplified user’s interface delivers the instant familiarization. Furthermore, you can switch between the EZ-Cinema
mode and your Windows desktop any time – work when you need to, ease whe n you want to. As a special of fer, a copy
of WIN-Cinema is also bundled, and you can also control it with the remote control.

FM Radio

This FM Radio feature provided by your EZ-Buddie 2 is a special designed one. It only required you to power on the
system and speaker to play your favorite radio station, and you don’t even need to boot up the system. This feature
facilitates you performing an auto-search, tuning–in to a radio station using the remote control, and setting six memory
channels for your favorite radio stations. This will keep you on the latest news and trends all the time. When the FM
Radio feature is off, the present time will be shown instead of radio frequency. Furthermore, a radio-alarm function is
provided. You can set the EZ-Buddie 2 to start playing a FM radio st ation at your pre set time. Can you imagine wake up
listening to your favorite radio station every morning? Let the EZ-Buddie 2 make your dream come true.

EZ-Watcher providing real-time hardware detecting

Thanks to the unique EZ-Watcher technology the EZ-Buddie 2 series becomes the first computer has the ability to
self-diagnosis. The EZ-Watcher can perform pre-boot hardware testing to make sure the hardware is ready for normal
operation, and provide an easy way for you to debug. After booting into Windows, the EZ-Watcher will monitor the
temperature of the CPU and system. When detecting CPU overheat or system overheats, it will warn you in time for you
to take proper measure to prevent a system crash and data lo ss.

Magic Tuner

The EZ-Watcher comes with a “Magic Tuner”. Using this tuner, you can adjust the CPU processing rate to suit your
need. One push on the tuner allows you to adjust the processing rate for better performance, and another push to lock
the adjusted rate. Then, the system will apply the locked processing rate after every boot unless another adjustment is
made. The tuner is a very efficient tool for adjusting the system performance. However, the variety of the hardware
specification restricts such adjustment. Theor etically, a n Intel CPU system can tol erate ±10% variation in performance,
and an AMD and VIA system ±5%. The hardware requirement of installed software may further restrict, even reject
such adjustment. When this happens, you should restore the default processing-rate to ensure the normal operation.
However, neither increasing the rate nor decreasing is recommended. The performance with the processing rate being
adjusted is not guaranteed, and you shall cautiously test and utilize such adjustment.

Plugs and Card slots

On the sides of the front panel, you can find USB/ IEEE1394/ Earphone/ Microphone plugs, as well as card slots
supporting CFI/CFII, SD, SM, MS, and MMC. These plugs and slots allow you to upload and download files from all
kinds of peripheral devices such as digital cameras, DVs, and MP3 players.

Compact and silent

The dimensions of the EZ-Buddie 2 are space-saving 18x22x31cm (W x L x H). You can easily put your EZ-Budddie 2
on your desk. Such compactness is made possible by an advanced heat sink design consisting of heat-pipe, a
technology originally designed for notebooks, and one smart fan. This design delivers efficient and quiet cooling. The
external power source design of the EZ-Buddie 2 series also help to reducing the operating noise and stabilizing the
system.

Expandability

The advanced design of the EZ-Budddie 2 not only provides best performance and stability but also the expandability,

including one AGP slot and one PCI slot for future upgrading.
Thus, you will find your digital life getting more free and comfortable with the EZ-Buddie 2.
Before operating your EZ-Buddie 2, you should read through this manual and keep this man ual in hand for future

reference.

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Features

Speaking of features，this EZ-Buddie 2 series is the innovative combination of a powerful processing computer and
personal entertaining unit, distinguishing itself from the others. The innovations provided by the EZ-Buddie 2 series will be
discussed in two scopes - the first scope is about the status viewer, panel controls, and remote control, and the second is
about the usage of the FM Radio/Clock feature. For the EZ-Cinema feature, it is exclusively discussed in the EZ-Cinema
user’s book, the quickest and easiest way to familiar with this unique feature.

Status viewer, front-panel controls, and remote control

Status viewer

First, let yourself familiar with the LED icons shown in the status viewer, the EZ-Wat cher. You can refer to Fig.1 and List 1.

Fig.1 The LED icons shown in the

EZ-Watcher

1 AM 2 PM 3 Radio 4 Alarm
5 Volume 6 Stereo 7 FM Volume status 8

9 System temp. status 10 CPU temp. status 11 Overheating Display 12 Light Stick
13 CPU operating speed 14 Mainbo ard icon 15 Hard Drive icon 16 Memory icon
17 ODD icon 18 Repair Needed icon 19 Over clock Lock 20 PC mode
21 EZ-Cinema mode 22 Movies mode 23 Music mode 24 Pictures mode
25 Media from ODD 26 Media from Card 27 Previous 28 Play / Pause
29 Next
List1. The function of each LED icon shown in the EZ-Watcher

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Front-panel controls

Fig. 2 The functions of the front-panel controls

Control name Function
1 ODD Eject Button Pushing this button will eject the ODD Track tray, and pushing again will retract it.
2 PC Power Button Pushing this button will start the PC mode (boot into Windows).
3 Reset Button In the PC/EZ-Cinema mode pushing this button will reboot the system into PC mode.
4 Magic Tuner

unique tuner feature provided by the EZ-Buddie 2 for adjusting the volume and CPU

requency. The factory default of the tuner is for adjusting volume - turn clockwise to
increase the volume, and counterclockwise to decrease. When you want to adjust the
CPU frequency, just push the Magic Tuner once, which unlock the “LOCK” status, and

hen you can turn the tuner clockwise to increase the frequency (overclock) and
counterclockwise to decrease (downclock).（For the upper and lower limit of this

requency adjusting, please refer to following sections.）
How to overclock/downclock

1. Lightly push the Magic Tuner once.

2. Make sure the [EZ-Watcher clock adju st] of the [PC Health S t atus] item in the BIOS is
set to [Enabled] (default is [Disabled].).

3. Turn the tuner clockwise to increase the CPU FSB frequency, and counterclockwise

to decrease.

4. Push the tuner again to lock the resulted frequency. The lock will be confirmed by the

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