Advent 3501 PC

Motherboard Information

• Form Factor: Micro ATX Form Factor: 20.8CM * 24.3CM
• CPU Support: Socket A for AMD Duron / Athlon processor. Supports 600MHz~850MHz or higher processor
• System Memory: Supports four two 168-pin unbuffered DIMM using four memory banks. Supports a maximum memory size of 1GB (32M x 8). Supports 3.3v SDRAM DIMM. 100MHz clocks are supported. (200MHz Internal System Bus)
• Chipset: VIA KT133 552 BGA
  • FSB @200MHz
  • AGP 4x and PCI Advanced high performance memory controller
  • Supports PC100/133 SDRAM, & VCM technology
• IO Controller: VIA(R)VT82C686A chipset. (352 BGA)
  • Enhanced Power Management Features
  • Integrated Super I/O (FDC, LPT, COM 1/2, and IR)
  • Dual bus Master IDE Ultra DMA33/66
  • DirectSound AC'97 Audio
  • ACPI
• Audio Chipset: Chip Integrated DirectSound AC'97 Audio
  • Sigmatel 9708. AC97 2.1 Compliant, Support 4 Channels Audio.
  • Creative CT5880(Optional). PCI 2.2 compliant, 3D audio effects, 32-voice XG wavetable synthesizer, Direct Sound/Music Hardware Accelerator, Full-Duplex Stereo
• Expansion Slots:
  • One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot. AGP specification compliant. Supports AGP 2.0 1x/2x/4x.
  • One CNR (Communication Network Riser) slot.
  • Three 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots (wherein one shared slot can be used PCI or ISA (optional)). Supports 3.3v/5v PCI Bus Interface.
• Internal Connectors:
  • 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.
  • 2 Serial ports (COM A + COM B) or 1 serial port with 1 VGA port
  • 1 Parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
  • 4 USB ports ( 2 Rear Connectors/ 2 USB Front Pin Header)
  • 1 IrDA connector for SIR/CIR/ASKIR/HPSIR.
  • 1 Audio/Game port

Jumpers. JBAT1 (Clear CMOS). 1-2 Keep Data, 2-3 Clear Data.

In the Box

Disks Supplied

• Advent recovery CD
• InterVideo WinDVD
• Microsoft Works 2000
• McAfee virus scan deluxe
• 3D navigator (video drivers)
• SuperVoice (modem drivers)
• Chipset drivers CD (ver. 1.4)
• Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
• Premier Manager 99
• Dance eJay
• Time Almanac
• Team Apache
• V Rally
• Creaturers 2

Items Supplied

• Advent base unit
• UK mains power cable
• UK modem cable
• Active stereo speakers
• Mouse (PS/2)
• Internet keyboard (PS/2)
• Advent mouse mat

Documentation Supplied

• Top sheet - "Setting up your computer"
• Advent user manual
• CD recovery procedure
• Freeserve preload leaflet

Recovery Disc

Warning: The recovery process will restore your computer to its "out of the box" state. This will delete all your personal files. Make sure that you save these to disk before you begin. Once the computer has been recovered you will not be able to retreive these files.

How to restore Windows Me on your Advent pc using the recovery disc.

• Insert the Advent recovery CD and restart your computer (if you have 2 drives the disc needs to go into the DVD drive).
• The computer will boot from the CD and the recovery program will load.
• You will be presented with several blue warning screens - read these carefully.
• Press Y to proceed past each screen. The recovery will now begin.
• Once complete remove the disc and press the CTRL, ALT and DEL keys to restart.
• You must now install the individual software titles from the discs supplied with your computer.
• The recovery process takes approximately 90 minutes.

Hard Drive Recovery

• Insert the Windows Millennium boot floppy disk and restart your computer.
• Wait for the disk to load, your will see a warning screen about data loss. Press Y.
• The license agreement will then be displayed. Press 1 to agree.
• Recovery will now begin. The process takes around 20 minutes.