Acer acernote 950

                                                                                                                                           

Getting Started

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Follow these steps when you use the notebook for the first time, to ensure
top performance right from the start.

1.

Condition the battery pack.

Conditioning battery packs optimizes battery life and improves recharge
efficiency.  Following are six quick steps on battery conditioning:

a.

Install the battery pack into the notebook.

b.

Connect a powered AC adapter to the notebook.

c.

Power on the notebook.

d.

Press the no-reboot Setup button (

) to access Setup.

e.

Press 

U

 to access the battery discharge utility.

f.

Press 

H

 to run the battery discharge utility.

The battery begins discharging.  After discharging, the notebook powers
off and battery charging begins.  The battery LEDs light up from one to
five, then turn completely off when the notebook finishes charging.
Repeat steps c to f once or twice.  See section 2.4.2 for more details.

2.

Power on the system.

If your notebook has pre-installed software (including zero-volt
suspend), turn on the system and go directly to item 4;

otherwise

1

, insert MS-DOS

diskette #1 into the diskette drive
and boot up the system.  Follow
the screen instructions to install
MS-DOS.

                                                     

1

PHDISK, the suspend-to-disk utility reserves disk space in the form of a partition or file.  If you wish
to reserve a partition, install PHDISK first before formatting your hard disk and installing MS-DOS
and other software.  (See step 3).