Advent T9101 PC

Case Disassembly

Release the side of the case by removing the 2 screws on the right hand side at the back, then slide the side of the case backwards. The panel is a tight fit and may require firm pressure to remove. The front bezel has to be removed before the drives can be slid out. It is retained by 4 clips.

Drivers

Your PC should have a backup copy of all the drivers, you can find it by browsing to the c:\applications\drivers folder.

Motherboard Information

• CPU: Socket 478 for P4 Celeron/Celeron D(FSB 400/533 Mhz)/Northwood/Prescott CPUs with FSB400/533/800MHz up to 3.4GHz
• Main Memory:
  • Supports two memory banks using two 184-pin unbuffered DDR DIMMs
  • Supports up to 2GB memory size without ECC
  • Supports DDR266/333/400
• Chipset: SiS 661FX
  • Supports Intel Pentium 4 processors with data transfer rate up to 800MHz
  • Supports 64-bit high performance DDR400/DDR333/DDR266 memory controller
  • Supports high performance & high quality 3D Graphic Accelerator
  • Supports AGP 8x/4x interface
  • Supports bi-directional 16-bit data bus with 1GHz bandwidth
• Slots:
  • One 8x/4x AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) universal slot
  • Three PCI 2.2 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots
• On-Board IDE:
  • Dual IDE controllers integrated in SiS® 964L
  • Support Bus Master, Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 operation modes
• On-Board Peripherals:
  • 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
  • 1 serial port
  • 1 VGA port
  • 1 PS2 keyboard + 1 PS2 mouse connectors
  • 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
  • 7 high speed USB 2.0/1.1 ports (Rear * 4 / Front * 3)
  • 1 audio (Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In) port
  • 1 RJ-45 LAN connector
  • 2 IEEE 1394 ports (Real * 1/ Front * 1 with pinheader) (Optional)

In the Box

Disks Supplied

• Advent Recovery CD version 3
• Microsoft Works 7 CD

Items Supplied

• Advent keyboard and optical mouse
• UK mains power cable
• UK modem cable

Documentation Supplied

• Advent users manual
• Microsoft Windows XP "Start here" guide

Recovery Disc

To recover your Advent PC you will need your Advent System Recovery CD.

• Place the CD into the DVD drive and restart your computer.
• Press R on the keyboard when prompted.
• The recovery will load and display a menu of options:
  • Non-destructive recovery: this option will restore Windows, supplied applications, and drivers. This option will not destroy your documents or programs. These will be backed up along with the registry. These are restored at the end of the recovery process.
  • System Recovery - No format: this will reinstall Windows, supplied applications and drivers. It will move your files to a folder called "My old disk structure". Any applications (except those supplied) will need to be reinstalled.
  • System Recovery - Quick format: this option will erase your hard drive including your personal files. Windows, supplied applications and drivers will be reinstalled.
• Select the Non-destructive recovery option and press Next.
• You will be informed about System Restore in Windows, click Yes.
• The recovery will begin. Once this is complete you should eject the CD and click Restart.

Due to the nature of the recovery process you should not use FDISK or any other partition management software to delete the partition on your Advent computer. Doing so will prevent the recovery from functioning correctly. If the recovery asks for a second CD you will need to obtain an Update CD from Advent.

Additional information.

Press the ALT and D keys at the recovery menu to access a command prompt. This will allow access to C: drive. The command prompt will default to E:\i386\system32 where you can run a variety of tools including CHKDSK.EXE.

Pressing CTRL + BACKSPACE at the ‘Press R to display system recovery options’ will display the manufacturers hidden menu. This menu contains a number of tools to delete or recreate the partitions on the hard disk drive.

Reinstalling applications

From version 2.x of the recovery system onwards you can install applications from the c:\applications folder. Drivers can be installed from the c:\applications\drivers folder and utilities from the c:\applications\tools folder. You will still need to install Microsoft Works from the supplied CD.