Epson 5000 manual

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 speed light power light power light hard disk hard disk drive bays drive bays reset button reset button I diskette drive button /- inlet AC outlet MOUSE COM2 VGA power power light speed light hard disk access light drive bays PARALLEL COM1 MOUSE Km AC Inlet option skits AC &let voltage switch Computer[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Cache Math coprocessor Clock/ calendar Controllers Video Diskette Hard disk Interfaces Monitor Parallel Serial Keyboard Mouse Optional game port 8KB of internal cache; supports 64KB, 128KB, or 256KB of external cache using 28-pin, 8 x 8 or 32 x 8, 20ns DIP chips; in 486DX/50 or Pentium OverDrive systems, us[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 SETUP Stored in ROM; accessible by pressing F2 Program during boot System security User and Supervisor level passwords (8 characters) available for system boot or diskette access Virus protection Write protection feature for the hard disk drive boot sector; periodic reminder message for running virus detect[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 System Board Components The diagram below illustrates the components on the ActionPC 5000/ActionTower 5000 system board. The table following it describes these components. nrnnnnnnn I I I I I U49 I 9 mm CN16 mmcmn CN18 4 - NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 8/94[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 components External cache jumper settings Socket I component U1, U2, U4, I SIMM sockets U6 U5 U12, U13 Keyboard/mouse controller Super I/O controller (UMC82C863,865); supports up to two diskette drives. two serial pods, and one parallel port U15 Microprocessor (ZIF socket) U17 Clock generator: 4V to 7V oper[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 SIMM Installation The computer comes with 4MB or 8MB of memory on a SIMM. You can increase the memory in this computer up to 64MB by installing additional SIMMs. There are four SIMM sockets on the main system board, and each can contain one SIMM. You can install 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, and 32MB SIMMs. The[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Hard Disk Drive Types Drive Option Information Your computer comes with a hard disk auto-sensing feature. When you select the Autotype Fixed Disk option, the system detects the type of hard disk drive you have installed and fills in the drive information using values in the following table. IDE hard disk dr[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Diskette and magnet-optical drive specifications DMA Assignments Level DMA0 DMA1 DMA2 DMA3 DMA4 DMA5 DMA6 DMA7 Assigned device Reserved (8-bit) Reserved (8-bit) FDD controller (8-bit) Reserved (8-bit) Cascade for DMA controller 1 Reserved (16-bit) Resewed (16-bit) Resewed (16-bit) Hardware Interrupts System[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 System l/O Address Map Connector Pin Assignments Parallel port connector pin assignments (CN12) Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Strobe’ 10 ACK * 19 Signal ground 2 Data 0 11 Busy 20 Signal ground -Hex address 000-01F 020 - 03F 022 - 024 034,03B,03C 040 - 05F 060-06F Assigned device DMA controller 1,823[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Diskette drive connector pin assignments (CN4) Option card riser board connector pin assignment: (S1) (continued) Pin* 2 4 6 Signal NC NC NC Pin* 20 22 24 Signal Step Write data Write enable * Ail odd-numbered pins are grounds Hard disk drive connector pin assignments (CN13) 13 ID2 14 ID13 *Active low ioglc[...]

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    NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Option slot connector pin assignments SA16 S415 S414 SA13 SA12 SA11 SA10 SA9 SA8 IA25 IS48 1 B19 1 C13 1 SD10 I 1 *Active low logic VL-bus slot connectors pin assignments l Active low logic l Active low logic Tested Operating Environments Although your system will run most software applications, the followi[...]

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    Software Problems Cl When installing a copy-protected software package, first try the installation at high speed. If this does not work properly, select low speed by pressing Ctrl Alt - (using the numeric keypad). Try loading the program at low speed and then switching to high speed, if possible. D When runnin g a software package that uses a key d[...]