Seanix 900 manual

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Front View Video RAM Rear Panel and Left Side security keyboard or mouse port Cache Clock/calendar Controllers Video Diskette drive Hard disk PC Card Notebook Specifications CPU and Memory CPU 5x86 QFP CPU on L2 cache daughterboard; CPU includes 16KB of write-back unified data and instruction cache and integrated math co[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Interfaces External VGA Parallel Serial External keyboard/mouse Infrared Speaker Internal; automatically disabled when line-out is used Audio input and Connectors for stereo line-in and line- output out and for monaural microphone Port replicator Connector for optional ActionPort™ Replicator Security Keyboard ActionPoi[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Infrared Specifications Power Sources Specification Compatibility COM Operating IrDA TM -compliant COM1 COM2 (default) AC Power Adapters Operating Range Operating Distance Speed 30° radius 3.3 ft (1m) Up to 115.2 Kbps LED Panel con Name Meaning ’ , Power Green-Computer is on 9: Flashing green-Very low battery; syste[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Major Subassemblies Optional Equipment I 4 MB, 8MB or 16MB snap-in memory expansion module I 1.2 GB user-removable hard disk drive I Additional NiMH batteries I Extra AC adapter or international AC adapter I Adapter for an automobile cigarette lighter I External battery charger I External keyboard I External numeric keyp[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series System board components Serial port connector (J2) Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Carder Detect 4 Data Terminal 7 Request to Send Ready 2 Receive Data 5 Signal Ground 8 Clear to Send 3 Transmit Data 6 Data Set Ready 9 Ring indicator VGA connectorfor an external monitor (J3) Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Red 6 Gr[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series External keyboard/mouse connector (J7) HDD IDE connector (J23) Pin No. Signal Name 1 RESET DRV 2 GND Pin No. Signal Name 21 GND 22 IOWR Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 AUX-DATA 3 GND 5 AUX-CLK 2 NC 4 +5 v 6 NC Microphone connector (J8) 3 IDE D7 23 GND 4 GND 24 IORD Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 AGND 3 BMIC 5 MICI[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series 10/21/95 AN900-8[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Main board connector to power converter (J17) Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 GND 7 DOCKON 13 VCC5 19 ADPR 2 GND 3 GND 8 SUSHDD 14 VCC5 20 DOCK PR 9 CLKOFF 15 VCC3 21 DOCK PR 4 GND 10 DOCKPLG 16 12V 22 DCCK PR 5 SWON 11 ADPTR 17 VCC3 6 GND 12 VCC5 18 CHAR ID Touchpad connector (J19) Pin Signal Pin Signal Pi[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Port Replicator connector (J6) (continued) Hardware Interrupts CPU Configuration Information Switch S1 CPU Type Cyrix 5x86 QFP daughterboard Cyrix 5x86 PGA S2 Speed (Motherboard speed) DC board voltage (on DC board) 1, ON 2, OFF 3, OFF 4, ON 1, ON 2, ON 3, OFF 4, ON left center right left center right Description setting[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series System I/O Address Map Installation/Support Tips Hexadecimal Address 000-01F Device DMA Controller 1 020-03F interrupt Controller 040-05F 060-06F 070-07F Timer/Counter Keyboard Controller RTC NMI 080-09F DMA Page Register Interrupt Controller 2 DMA Controller 2 Clear Math Coprocessor Busy Reset Math Coprocessor Math Copr[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Information Reference List Engineering Change Notices None Technical Information Bulletins None Product Support Bulletins None Related Documentation 400521900 EPSON ActionNote 900 Series User’s Guide 400526900 About Your Software 400527000 Choosing Your Operating System PL-AN900S EPSON ActionNote 900 Series Parts Price[...]

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    EPSON ActionNote 900 Series AN900-13 10/21/95[...]