Installing

Providing the required system environment

System requirements

The following system environment is required in order to use the SonicStage Ver. 3.1/MD Simple Burner Ver. 2.0 software for the MD Walkman.

Computer

IBM PC/AT or Compatible

 

 

 

• CPU: Pentium III 450 MHz or higher

 

• Hard disk drive space: 200 MB or more (1.5 GB or more is

 

recommended) (The amount of free space will vary according to

 

Windows version and the number of music files stored on the hard

 

disk.)

 

• RAM: 128 MB or more

 

 

 

Others

 

• CD drive (capable of digital playback by WDM) (A CD-R/RW drive

 

is necessary for CD writing)

 

• Sound Board

 

• USB port

 

 

Operating

Factory installed:

System

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005/Windows XP Media Center

 

Edition 2004/Windows XP Media Center Edition/Windows XP

 

Professional/Windows XP Home Edition/Windows 2000 Professional

 

(Service Pack 3 or later)/Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98

 

Second Edition

 

 

Display

High Color (16bit) or higher, 800 600 dots or better (1,024 768 dots

 

or better is recommended)

 

 

Others

• Internet access: for Web registration, EMD services and CDDB

 

• Windows Media Player (version 7.0 or higher) installed for playing

 

WMA files

 

 

This software is not supported by the following environments:

OSs other than those indicated above

Personally constructed PCs or operating systems

An environment that is an upgrade of the original manufacturer-installed operating system

Multi-boot environment

Multi-monitor environment

Macintosh

Notes

We do not ensure trouble-free operation on all computers that satisfy the system requirements.

The NTFS format of Windows XP/Windows 2000 Professional can be used only with the standard (factory) settings.

We do not ensure trouble-free operation on computers which have changed to the system suspend, sleep, or hibernation mode.

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