Advent T9300 PC

* You cannot use both front firewire ports at the same time

Case Disassembly

Remove the 2 screws from the right hand side on the back and slide the side panel backwards to gain access to the PC. 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

• Form Factor: Micro ATX Form Factor: 24.5 cm (L) x 24.5 cm (W)
• CPU Support: Supports 64-bit AMD Athlon64 processor (Socket 754), including 3200+, 3400+ or higher.
• System Memory: DDR266/333/400 DDR SDRAM for two 184-pin DDR DIMMs. Maximum memory size 2GB.
• Core Logic (Chipset):
  • VIA K8T800 chipset
    • HyperTransport connection to AMD Athlon64 processor
    • 8 or 16 bit control/address/data transfer both directions
    • 800/600/400/200 MHz “Double Data Rate” operation in both directions
    • AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode
  • VIA VT8237 chipset
    • Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
    • Integrated Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
    • Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
    • ACPI
    • (Optional) 2 Serial ATA ports
    • Up to 8 USB2.0 ports
• IO Controller:
  • Up to 2 1394 ports (up to 400Mbps transfer rate) Controlled by VIA VT6307 chipset
  • 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
  • 1 serial port (COMA)
  • 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
  • 8 USB ports (Rear * 4/Front * 4)
  • 2 IEEE 1394 ports (Rear * 1/Front * 1)
  • 1 audio port - 1 RJ-45 LAN jack VIA® VT6103 Ethernet Controller
  • Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip
  • Supports 10Mbps & 100Mbps
• Audio Chipset:
  • C-Media 9761 6-channel software audio codec
  • Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec
  • Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement

Clear CMOS Jumper: JBAT1

Jumper has 2 settings: 1-2 Keep Data, 2-3 Clear Data

In the Box

Disks Supplied

• Advent Recovery CD version 3
• Microsoft Works 7

Items Supplied

• PS/2 keyboard
• PS/2 mouse
• FM radio antenna
• Mouse mat
• Composite to S-Video converter cable
• Advent SP-120N powered speakers
• Remote control (including 2 AAA batteries)
• USB Remote control RF reciever
• Wireless LAN antenna

Documentation Supplied

• Advent setup topsheet
• Advent user manual
• Microsoft Windows XP "Start here" guide
• "Instructions for PC Remote Controller"
• FireWire ports addendum
• "Advent system recovery and DirectX" addendum
• Cyberlink DVD solution card - containing the product key for PowerDVD

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.