Resetting the OmniBook

1.Use a pen or a straightened paper clip to push the system-off button on the right side of the OmniBook. (The switch is on the motherboard.)

–or–

Press and hold the blue power button until the display shuts down. (The switch is on the icon PCA.)

2.After the computer shuts down, press the blue power button to turn it back on.

Note

The OmniBook can boot from a CD if all these conditions are true:

∙You have an internal CD-ROM/floppy drive installed,

∙You have a bootable CD in the drive, such as the OmniBook Recovery CD, and

∙You select the CD-ROM drive as the boot device. You can do this during reboot by pressing ESC to cancel the OmniBook screen, then ESC to display the boot-device menu for a one- time selection.

System Resources

Below are default values for system resources. To see other, non-default possibilities, use the BIOS Setup utility (see page 3-22), which lists port and audio device configurations in the System Devices menu.

The tables in this section show typical resource usage as set up by the OmniBook BIOS. Plug-and- play operating systems, drivers, and BIOS Setup settings may change some of the entries.

 

Table 1-7. System Interrupts

0

System timer

1

Keyboard

2

Cascade IRQ 9

3

Free (or COM2 infrared port, if enabled)

4

COM1 (serial port)

5

Crystal sound

6

Floppy drive

7

LPT1 (ECP parallel port)

8

Real-time clock

9

Free

10

USB and CardBus - assigned by Windows driver

11

Free (or MIDI, if enabled)

12

Pointing device

13

Numeric data processor

14

Internal hard disk (primary IDE controller)

15

Internal CD-ROM drive (secondary IDE controller)

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