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Mouse and Keyboard
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When attaching the mouse and keyboard connectors, be
careful to attach them to the proper connectors. Although
they
are physically identical, they are not interchangeable.
Installing Floppy Disk Drives
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When installing a floppy disk drive as drive B, remember to
set the drive select jumper to the second position and attach
the
pass-through connector on the floppy drive controller
cable to the drive, not to
the
end connector.
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If
the drive does
IID(
function normally, make sure that the
drive
ty-pe
has been correctly selected in SETUP. Also check
that
any special drivers that may be necessary havebeen
installed correctly.
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ff you have installed two floppy disk drives, remember that
the
Equity
38&5X/20
PLUS will boot from drive B when a disk
isitlser~indriveBandnodiskisinsertedindriveA.
Installing Hard Disk Drives
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It is recommended that a
l&bit
AT-type hard disk controller
be used in the Equity
38&5X/20
PLUS, if you are installing
a
drive that cannot make use of the internal hard disk controIIer.
Also remember to disable the onboard hard disk cormoIler
when installing such a drive.
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If you are having
difficrilty
in formatting the hard disk drive,
try starting over with the Unconditional Format option in
diagnostics.
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When installing a hard disk drive, be sure to consult the drive
type tables for the drive type which fits the drive you are
installing. If there is no match for your drive, use the User
Defked drive
opticm
Software Problems
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When installing a copy-protected software package on the
Equity 3%5X/20 PLUS,
first
try
the
installation
at
2OMHz.
If
this does not work properly, try switching to 8MHz for the
installation If you are still unable to load the program at
2OMHz,
h-y
loading at
8MHz
and then switching to
2OMHz.
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When using a software package that uses a
keydisk
as its
copy-protection method, try loading it at
2OMHz.
If this does
not work, enable the Auto
Sped
option in SETUP.
Power-on Password
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Make sure that you do not forget the
Poweron
Password
should you set one up. If you do, it will be necessary to disable
itbymovingjumperJ3onthemaincircuitboard
totheA
position.
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