SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP14837 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: Power Management Enhancements for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000 VERSION: 1.00 Rev. B LANGUAGE: GR CATEGORY: Operating System Enhancements DIVISIONS: Portables PRODUCTS AFFECTED: Compaq Armada E700 Series Compaq Armada M700 Series Compaq Armada M300 Series Compaq Armada E500 Series Compaq Armada V300 Series OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: 11 Jul 2000 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 4.0 SUPERSEDES: SP11340 DESCRIPTION: This software supports turning off the 3COM Mini-PCI network card and the SMART II Off-line Diagnostics when on battery power. The features are turned back on when the system sees is on AC power. Enhancements/Fixes: This utility no longer opens the disk driver under Windows NT and Windows 2000 and holds it open. The utility now only opens the disk driver when it needs to access the drive. This fixed a problem with Windows 2000 and ejecting ATA PC Cards theat were present at system power up. HOW TO USE: 1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive. The file downloaded is a self-extracting executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. Entering "Y" to confirm the unpacking of files creates a new directory folder in the download directory. All files are unpacked into this newly created directory. To create the one optional installation diskette, run MAKEDISK.BAT and follow on-screen instructions. 3. After the directory has been created, you may delete the self-extracting file downloaded in step 1. 4. To install, run SETUP.EXE. For example, enter: \SETUP where is the drive and directory created in step 2 - or - a diskette drive letter if using the optional installation diskette Follow the on-screen instructions. 5. After the installation is completed, you may delete the directory created in step 2 if you wish. Copyright 1999-2001, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies