NEC LXI manual Notes for Using Windows NT, Warm Swapping Devices, Using Screen Savers

Notes for Using Windows 95

Be sure to read the following notes when using Windows 95 on your NEC Versa LXi.

Warm Swapping Devices

In Windows 95, warm swapping of devices is only supported when the system enters a Save-to RAM (STR) state. Save-to-RAM is the default setting in Windows 95. NEC does not recommend that you warm swap a device when the system is in a Save-to-File (STF) state.

Using Screen Savers

Some third party screen savers are known to cause a system to hang or to be unresponsive. If your screen saver is running and your NEC Versa displays an error message and/or hangs, reboot your system. The condition is not due to a malfunction of your NEC Versa notebook. If the error recurs, switch to an alternate manufacturer's screen saver that does not cause this condition.

Notes for Using Windows NT

Be sure to read the following notes when using Windows NT on your NEC Versa LXi.

Using the Save-to-File Function

Your NEC Versa LXi ships with BIOS default power management settings that include the Auto Save- to-File (STF) parameter set to disabled. We recommend that you do not enable the Auto Save-to-File parameter when running the Windows NT operating system on your NEC Versa LXi. If the Auto Save-to-File parameter is enabled, severe video corruption may occur when resuming from an auto Save-to-File state.

Video corruption will not occur when:

Tresuming from a manually invoked Save-to-File.

an auto Save-to-File occurs due to a low battery condition.

If video corruption occurs after resuming from an auto Save-to-File (BIOS parameter enabled), perform a manual Save-to-File, then resume from the Save-to-File state to eliminate the video corruption.

To invoke a manual Save-to-File on your NEC Versa LXi running the Windows NT operating system, simply press the Fn-Powerkey combination.

Using the HDPREPEZ Utility

The power management state referred to as Save-to-File (STF) saves the system's current working environment to the system's hard drive, then powers down the system to conserve battery power. The HDPREPEZ function creates a file large enough (256 MB) to accommodate the entire memory contents of your system. The STF file is created the first time that you run your system's setup program.

If you increase the memory capacity of your NEC Versa beyond 256 MB or you install a generic Windows NT operating system on your NEC Versa LXi, use the Application and Driver (A&D) CD to load the HDPREPEZ utility to increase the size of or to create the STF file. Follow the on-screen instructions on the A&D CD to run the HDPREPEZ utility.

NEC Versa LXi Release Notes 9