Hard drive specifications

95

DVD±RW and CD-RW Super Multi Double-Layer Combo Drive specifications

96

System DMA specifications

97

System interrupt specifications—Intel processors

98

System interrupt specifications—AMD processors

99

System I/O address specifications—Intel processors

100

System I/O address specifications—AMD processors

102

System memory map specifications—Intel processors

104

System memory map specifications—AMD processors

104

7 Screw listing

 

Black Phillips PM2.5×4.0 screw

107

Black Phillips PM2.5×6.0 captive screw

109

Black Phillips PM2.0×2.0 broad head screw

110

Silver Phillips PM1.5×9.0 screw

111

Black Phillips PM2.5×3.0 screw

112

Black Phillips PM2.5×17.0 screw

113

Black Phillips PM2.5×6.0 screw

114

Black Phillips PM2.5×7.0 screw

115

Silver Phillips PM3.0×4.0 screw

118

Silver Phillips PM2.0×4.0 screw

119

Black Phillips PM2.0×4.0 screw

120

Silver Phillips PM2.0×10.0 captive screw

123

8 Backup and recovery

 

Recovering system information

124

Backing up your information

124

When to back up

124

Backup suggestions

125

Using system restore points

125

When to create restore points

125

Create a system restore point

125

Restore to a previous date and time

126

Creating recovery discs

126

Performing a recovery

127

Recovering from the recovery discs

127

Recovering from the dedicated recovery partition (select models only)

127

9 Connector pin assignments

 

Audio-out (headphone)

129

Audio-in (microphone)

129

External monitor

130

RJ-11 (modem)

131

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