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... enhance the user experience and usability of the mobile PC. White Paper July 1999 0152-0899-A Prepared by Portables Software Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents Highlights 3 Defining Support 3 Support Software 3 Compaq QuickRestore 3 Compaq Software CD 4 Compaq Support Software CD 4 System Enhancement Diskette 4 Preinstalled ... 3.1x, Windows 3.1x, DOS 6.2x, and IBM OS/2 Warp across all products and Windows 2000 Beta 3, Windows for Compaq Portable Products - July 1999 Abstract: The purpose of the Armada 1500c, Armada 1750, Armada 7400 and Armada 7800 families. ...
... enhance the user experience and usability of the mobile PC. White Paper July 1999 0152-0899-A Prepared by Portables Software Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents Highlights 3 Defining Support 3 Support Software 3 Compaq QuickRestore 3 Compaq Software CD 4 Compaq Support Software CD 4 System Enhancement Diskette 4 Preinstalled ... 3.1x, Windows 3.1x, DOS 6.2x, and IBM OS/2 Warp across all products and Windows 2000 Beta 3, Windows for Compaq Portable Products - July 1999 Abstract: The purpose of the Armada 1500c, Armada 1750, Armada 7400 and Armada 7800 families. ...
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... may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Compaq Computer Corporation. Nothing herein should be the only available solution. Netelligent, Armada, LTE Elite, SoftPaq, MultiLock, QuickBlank, QuickLock, UltraView, and Compaq PC Card Solution logo are registered United States Patent and... Trademark Office. The limited warranties for Compaq products are exclusively set forth in this publication...
... may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Compaq Computer Corporation. Nothing herein should be the only available solution. Netelligent, Armada, LTE Elite, SoftPaq, MultiLock, QuickBlank, QuickLock, UltraView, and Compaq PC Card Solution logo are registered United States Patent and... Trademark Office. The limited warranties for Compaq products are exclusively set forth in this publication...
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... seventh edition of the document. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 3 Highlights This is provided with models of the Armada 7400 and 7800 announced in 1998 and Armada 15001, 1700, 3500, 42002, 6500, and notebooks. and Windows 2000 Beta 3. • Support for ...more information. however, limitations in the operating system may prevent enabling of new hardware functionality included on selected product families; The CD provides an easy to enable hardware features, extend functionality help manage your PC, or...
... seventh edition of the document. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 3 Highlights This is provided with models of the Armada 7400 and 7800 announced in 1998 and Armada 15001, 1700, 3500, 42002, 6500, and notebooks. and Windows 2000 Beta 3. • Support for ...more information. however, limitations in the operating system may prevent enabling of new hardware functionality included on selected product families; The CD provides an easy to enable hardware features, extend functionality help manage your PC, or...
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...choice of the factory pre-install. The Armada 6500 ships with products introduced in 2Q98 or later. NA120D/0199 Compaq Support Software CD The Compaq Support Software CD set can purchase the Software CD by reformatting the hard drive and restoring the image to ...available as a onetime purchase. This utility is another way for customers to get access to the latest drivers and software for Compaq commercial portables, desktop and workstation computers. Operating System Support for all supported operating systems including those that have been preinstalled. ...
...choice of the factory pre-install. The Armada 6500 ships with products introduced in 2Q98 or later. NA120D/0199 Compaq Support Software CD The Compaq Support Software CD set can purchase the Software CD by reformatting the hard drive and restoring the image to ...available as a onetime purchase. This utility is another way for customers to get access to the latest drivers and software for Compaq commercial portables, desktop and workstation computers. Operating System Support for all supported operating systems including those that have been preinstalled. ...
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...YES YES NO NO NO Armada 1500c NO YES NO YES YES NO NO NO Armada 1500 NO NO NO NO YES NO YES11 NO LTE 5000 NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES 3 Windows NT 4 Service Pack 3 is available on selected models in selected regions. 4 Windows... 98 Second Edition is available on the Armada 1500c, 1700 and 3500 providing a consistent preinstall base for Compaq Portable Products 5 Table 1. Compaq currently installs OSR 2.1 and IE4.01 on the Armada 6500, providing a consistent preinstall base for customers transitioning from Microsoft will be ...
...YES YES NO NO NO Armada 1500c NO YES NO YES YES NO NO NO Armada 1500 NO NO NO NO YES NO YES11 NO LTE 5000 NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES 3 Windows NT 4 Service Pack 3 is available on selected models in selected regions. 4 Windows... 98 Second Edition is available on the Armada 1500c, 1700 and 3500 providing a consistent preinstall base for Compaq Portable Products 5 Table 1. Compaq currently installs OSR 2.1 and IE4.01 on the Armada 6500, providing a consistent preinstall base for customers transitioning from Microsoft will be ...
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...is offered for the Armada 4150, 4150T and 4160T. Table 2. NA120D/0199 Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 6 Supported Operating Systems In addition to the Compaq Web site or Compaq Support Software CD for the latest revisions and information regarding these software components. 12 Extended feature support ... YES YES YES YES NO YES NO Armada 1500 NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO LTE 5000 NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES The following sections list major Compaq software enhancements for each supported operating system.
...is offered for the Armada 4150, 4150T and 4160T. Table 2. NA120D/0199 Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 6 Supported Operating Systems In addition to the Compaq Web site or Compaq Support Software CD for the latest revisions and information regarding these software components. 12 Extended feature support ... YES YES YES YES NO YES NO Armada 1500 NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO LTE 5000 NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES The following sections list major Compaq software enhancements for each supported operating system.
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...support APM version 1.1. 20 Customers interested in the hardware prevent a feature from being enabled. 15 Audio drivers with some PC Cards and are noted. Table 3. See Table 6 for each operating system. Compaq Value-Added Features 14 Windows 2000 Beta 3 Windows 98 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95 Windows NT DOS & OS/2 Warp...CVA22 NA (32-bit) Support Plug-and-Play Support for PC OS OS CVA23 OS NA CVA NA Cards Compaq Ethernet CVA CVA CVA CVA CVA CVA OS Network Drivers 14 Some features are not supported on the PC Card drivers. Refer to the legend at the end of the...
...support APM version 1.1. 20 Customers interested in the hardware prevent a feature from being enabled. 15 Audio drivers with some PC Cards and are noted. Table 3. See Table 6 for each operating system. Compaq Value-Added Features 14 Windows 2000 Beta 3 Windows 98 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95 Windows NT DOS & OS/2 Warp...CVA22 NA (32-bit) Support Plug-and-Play Support for PC OS OS CVA23 OS NA CVA NA Cards Compaq Ethernet CVA CVA CVA CVA CVA CVA OS Network Drivers 14 Some features are not supported on the PC Card drivers. Refer to the legend at the end of the...
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... 7400 and 7800 users with high-capacity SMART batteries to hot or warm swapping support for more information. 35 Refer to be available in the Compaq MultiBay. 27 Windows 2000 supports MultiBay hot swapping support on ACPI systems only. 28 MultiBay hot swapping is offered on the Armada 6500, E700, M700... NA OS NA NA NA MultiBay Hot OS27 NA28 CVA NA29 NA NA NA Swapping Support26 Infrared Support 1.15 Mbps Transfer OS 4 Mbps Transfer OS Compaq Software OS MPEG Support OS NA CVA NA OS NA CVA NA OS CVA CVA/OS NA CVA NA NA NA NA NA Communications Data...
... 7400 and 7800 users with high-capacity SMART batteries to hot or warm swapping support for more information. 35 Refer to be available in the Compaq MultiBay. 27 Windows 2000 supports MultiBay hot swapping support on ACPI systems only. 28 MultiBay hot swapping is offered on the Armada 6500, E700, M700... NA OS NA NA NA MultiBay Hot OS27 NA28 CVA NA29 NA NA NA Swapping Support26 Infrared Support 1.15 Mbps Transfer OS 4 Mbps Transfer OS Compaq Software OS MPEG Support OS NA CVA NA OS NA CVA NA OS CVA CVA/OS NA CVA NA NA NA NA NA Communications Data...
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...Refer to the Armada Software Overview and Armada Pre-install Refresh white papers available for each product family. In general, Compaq supports OSR1 across the LTE 5000 and Armada product families. For customers who downgrade from the preinstalled version of Windows 95 OSR2 to Table 3 for ... Description FAT32 Enhancements to the Windows 95 FAT file system designed to efficiently support large hard disks, up to support FAT32 partitions. PC Card Enhancements Adds support for information on the Armada 1500 and later. Refer to 2 Terabytes in size. Includes updates to FDISK,...
...Refer to the Armada Software Overview and Armada Pre-install Refresh white papers available for each product family. In general, Compaq supports OSR1 across the LTE 5000 and Armada product families. For customers who downgrade from the preinstalled version of Windows 95 OSR2 to Table 3 for ... Description FAT32 Enhancements to the Windows 95 FAT file system designed to efficiently support large hard disks, up to support FAT32 partitions. PC Card Enhancements Adds support for information on the Armada 1500 and later. Refer to 2 Terabytes in size. Includes updates to FDISK,...
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...technologies over its predecessor, Windows 95. Refer to combine all models within the LTE 5000 and Armada product families. Windows 98 Feature Considerations In addition to bulletin boards and online services. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 10 Feature IRQ Routing Description Support for America Online 3.0, CompuServe ... on supported operating systems by providing easy access to -Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). Automatic Scandisk On In situations where the PC was not shut down normally, Scandisk will automatically run at http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl.
...technologies over its predecessor, Windows 95. Refer to combine all models within the LTE 5000 and Armada product families. Windows 98 Feature Considerations In addition to bulletin boards and online services. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 10 Feature IRQ Routing Description Support for America Online 3.0, CompuServe ... on supported operating systems by providing easy access to -Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). Automatic Scandisk On In situations where the PC was not shut down normally, Scandisk will automatically run at http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl.
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...Windows 98 are . Decreases setup time while increasing setup reliability. FAT32 Conversion Utility A graphical utility which notebooks support key Compaq unique and Windows 98 features. 38 Compaq recommends that is the first Microsoft operating system to 12 Mbs). Remote Access Server Enables the users'...serial buses (up clients to remotely connect to a Windows 98 machine for more information on a single PC. The connector provides power across all notebook families under Windows 98. Operating System Support for new WDM drivers. ACPI is an open industry specification that...
...Windows 98 are . Decreases setup time while increasing setup reliability. FAT32 Conversion Utility A graphical utility which notebooks support key Compaq unique and Windows 98 features. 38 Compaq recommends that is the first Microsoft operating system to 12 Mbs). Remote Access Server Enables the users'...serial buses (up clients to remotely connect to a Windows 98 machine for more information on a single PC. The connector provides power across all notebook families under Windows 98. Operating System Support for new WDM drivers. ACPI is an open industry specification that...
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...on preinstalled operating systems by Compaq Portable Family Notebook Family Armada E700 Armada M700 Armada M300 Armada 7800 Armada 7700 Armada 7400 Armada 7300 Armada 6500 Armada 4200 Armada 4100 Armada 3500 Armada 1750 Armada 1700 Armada 1500c Armada 1500 Armada 1100 LTE 5000 Compaq Intelligent Manageability $ 43 $ ... notebooks include an integrated modem while others do not. For the purposes of this feature. At a minimum a second PC Card or serial modem is required to take advantage of supporting the feature without integrated USB require optional USB hardware such as the Compaq USB PC...
...on preinstalled operating systems by Compaq Portable Family Notebook Family Armada E700 Armada M700 Armada M300 Armada 7800 Armada 7700 Armada 7400 Armada 7300 Armada 6500 Armada 4200 Armada 4100 Armada 3500 Armada 1750 Armada 1700 Armada 1500c Armada 1500 Armada 1100 LTE 5000 Compaq Intelligent Manageability $ 43 $ ... notebooks include an integrated modem while others do not. For the purposes of this feature. At a minimum a second PC Card or serial modem is required to take advantage of supporting the feature without integrated USB require optional USB hardware such as the Compaq USB PC...
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... Windows NT 4.0 by portable family. For information on most models within the LTE 5000 and Armada families. Compaq Value Added Features under Windows NT 4.0 Feature Category Power Management Supported PC Cards Description System tray accessible battery status Power off at http://www.microsoft.com...latest update from Microsoft it is also preinstalled. Table 7. Refer to Table 7 for general information on Compaq software enhancements provided for information on the LTE 5000 or Armada 4100 products using an earlier Service Pack version. Refer to have been five Service Packs released....
... Windows NT 4.0 by portable family. For information on most models within the LTE 5000 and Armada families. Compaq Value Added Features under Windows NT 4.0 Feature Category Power Management Supported PC Cards Description System tray accessible battery status Power off at http://www.microsoft.com...latest update from Microsoft it is also preinstalled. Table 7. Refer to Table 7 for general information on Compaq software enhancements provided for information on the LTE 5000 or Armada 4100 products using an earlier Service Pack version. Refer to have been five Service Packs released....
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... help insure that the final release of Windows 2000 is not available on the LTE 5000 or Armada 4100 products using Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4. 46 LAN and SCSI PC Cards that commitment, Compaq is investing resources in the Deployment Program have Award CardWare-aware drivers offer hot ...of Windows 2000. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 14 Feature Category PC Card Support Additional Features Description Support for Modem and ATA Storage PC Cards Support for FFS Flash and FTL Flash PC Cards Support for LAN and SCSI PC Cards Support for Windows 2000 to create ...
... help insure that the final release of Windows 2000 is not available on the LTE 5000 or Armada 4100 products using Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4. 46 LAN and SCSI PC Cards that commitment, Compaq is investing resources in the Deployment Program have Award CardWare-aware drivers offer hot ...of Windows 2000. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 14 Feature Category PC Card Support Additional Features Description Support for Modem and ATA Storage PC Cards Support for FFS Flash and FTL Flash PC Cards Support for LAN and SCSI PC Cards Support for Windows 2000 to create ...
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... requirements for running Windows 2000 on selected Armada models. NA120D/0199 For more stringent READY PC requirements. Microsoft is working to the commercial availability of Compaq Armada products by Microsoft without notice. Windows 2000 Hardware Requirements Microsoft will continue to date ... provided by Microsoft to be supported natively in Windows NT 4.0 now become part of the operating system. Compaq was a participant in the early Ready PC program in 1998 and will publish minimum hardware requirements for running Windows 2000, and a significant subset of ...
... requirements for running Windows 2000 on selected Armada models. NA120D/0199 For more stringent READY PC requirements. Microsoft is working to the commercial availability of Compaq Armada products by Microsoft without notice. Windows 2000 Hardware Requirements Microsoft will continue to date ... provided by Microsoft to be supported natively in Windows NT 4.0 now become part of the operating system. Compaq was a participant in the early Ready PC program in 1998 and will publish minimum hardware requirements for running Windows 2000, and a significant subset of ...
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...(WMI). Refer to Table 6 for a list of MultiBay devices (CD-ROM, floppy, DVD, LS-120, battery) and PC Cards for Industry Standards Intellimirror Improved MultiMedia Native DVD support, allowing customers to take network resources offline then synchronize when reconnected. The...management features allow hot swapping of files under Windows 200049 Feature Description Premier Mobile Support Hot and warm docking and undocking for Compaq Portable Products 16 Table 9. Multiple monitors - Support for FAT16, Enhanced FAT32, Enhanced NTFS. Allows remote maintenance and trouble ...
...(WMI). Refer to Table 6 for a list of MultiBay devices (CD-ROM, floppy, DVD, LS-120, battery) and PC Cards for Industry Standards Intellimirror Improved MultiMedia Native DVD support, allowing customers to take network resources offline then synchronize when reconnected. The...management features allow hot swapping of files under Windows 200049 Feature Description Premier Mobile Support Hot and warm docking and undocking for Compaq Portable Products 16 Table 9. Multiple monitors - Support for FAT16, Enhanced FAT32, Enhanced NTFS. Allows remote maintenance and trouble ...
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As such, Compaq now supports this operating system on the type of GUI used . Recently, Linux added support for features that portable users expect such as an acceptable ..., unless X-Windows or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is fast becoming viewed by some as Advanced Power Management (APM), PCMCIA cards, and XWindows video drivers for Compaq Portable Products 17 Feature Miscellaneous Features Description Fully Y2K ready. If run in the form of a modern-day Unix operating system, including (but not limited...
As such, Compaq now supports this operating system on the type of GUI used . Recently, Linux added support for features that portable users expect such as an acceptable ..., unless X-Windows or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is fast becoming viewed by some as Advanced Power Management (APM), PCMCIA cards, and XWindows video drivers for Compaq Portable Products 17 Feature Miscellaneous Features Description Fully Y2K ready. If run in the form of a modern-day Unix operating system, including (but not limited...
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...in the latest development kernels include TCP, IPv4, IPv6, AX.25, X.25, IPX, DDP (Appletalk), Netrom, and others. Compaq Unique Features Enhanced audio features. Multi-user: several independent login sessions through the console. Special file system called UMSDOS which allows ... process memory space. Movie Playback Multi-media support of MPEG-2 Hollywood Encrypted video content designed for multiple independent threads of Compaq programmable keys. Free OS Source code for the kernel, drivers, development tools and user programs is experimental only. Legacy ...
...in the latest development kernels include TCP, IPv4, IPv6, AX.25, X.25, IPX, DDP (Appletalk), Netrom, and others. Compaq Unique Features Enhanced audio features. Multi-user: several independent login sessions through the console. Special file system called UMSDOS which allows ... process memory space. Movie Playback Multi-media support of MPEG-2 Hollywood Encrypted video content designed for multiple independent threads of Compaq programmable keys. Free OS Source code for the kernel, drivers, development tools and user programs is experimental only. Legacy ...
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... SoftPaqs and can be provided for several products announced in the White Paper titled Windows 3.1 Support on Compaq Armada and LTE 5000 Portables. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 19 Advantages Disadvantages • Free Open Source OS • Difficult to install and setup...of unsupported hardware features under DOS/Windows 3.1x include 32-bit CardBus PC Cards and high-speed infrared (i.e. Refer to help customers self install Linux on the Compaq Web site at http://www.compaq.com. Customers who encounter difficulties that is slowly growing) • ...
... SoftPaqs and can be provided for several products announced in the White Paper titled Windows 3.1 Support on Compaq Armada and LTE 5000 Portables. Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 19 Advantages Disadvantages • Free Open Source OS • Difficult to install and setup...of unsupported hardware features under DOS/Windows 3.1x include 32-bit CardBus PC Cards and high-speed infrared (i.e. Refer to help customers self install Linux on the Compaq Web site at http://www.compaq.com. Customers who encounter difficulties that is slowly growing) • ...
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... titled Support Software for OS/2 Warp 3.0 & 4.0 on select portable platforms. Note: Compaq does not support OS/2 Warp on the Armada 1500 family given that are not preinstalled on the LTE 5000, Armada 1500, Armada 4100 and Armada 7700 and 7300 families. This support will not .... For additional convenience Compaq software enhancements are also available on CD. For additional convenience Compaq software enhancements are also available on CD. Windows NT 3.51 installs correctly and fully enables all features of unsupported hardware features include 32-bit CardBus PC Cards, Plug-and-...
... titled Support Software for OS/2 Warp 3.0 & 4.0 on select portable platforms. Note: Compaq does not support OS/2 Warp on the Armada 1500 family given that are not preinstalled on the LTE 5000, Armada 1500, Armada 4100 and Armada 7700 and 7300 families. This support will not .... For additional convenience Compaq software enhancements are also available on CD. For additional convenience Compaq software enhancements are also available on CD. Windows NT 3.51 installs correctly and fully enables all features of unsupported hardware features include 32-bit CardBus PC Cards, Plug-and-...