CD TRAVELER USER’S MANUAL W/ CD-ROM+ CARD
EXP COMPUTER, INC. EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS. NON-TRANSFERABLE LIMITED WARRANTY EXP COMPUTER INC., AND EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS("EXP") warrants that the Quadruple Speed Portable CD-ROM (“products”) manufactured or distributed by EXP to be free from failures due to defects in materials or workmanship for full one year from the date of purchase of the products.
FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
CONTENTS PRECAUTIONS ...................................................................................... 2 CD-ROM DRIVE .................................................................................. 2 CD ...................................................................................... 2 PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS............................................................... 3 TOP PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE.................................................
precautions Read this section carefully before starting to use the portable PCMCIA CD-ROM. CD-ROM DRIVE • Do not place heavy objects on the CD-ROM drive. • Do not shake or subject to intense vibration. • Keep disc cover closed to protect from dust. • Do not disassemble the player. • Do not spill liquid on the player. • Do not touch the lens. • Only clean the outside of the player with a soft, dry cloth. • Clean the lens with a dry cotton swab or a lens blower.
CD-ROM PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS TOP PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE: • Open button: Press this button to open the disc cover. ‚ On/Busy led: • This indicator will light dimly with a green LED when the power is on. • This LED will light brightly when the drive is ready. • This LED will blink when the drive is accessing the disc. • This LED will blink every 2 seconds when the disc cover is opened. ƒ External Power led: • This LED will light when AC adapter or batteries are used.
… Next/Previous button: (for CD audio operation only) • When the drive is in play state, pressing the right edge of the button will skip to the next track. • When the drive is in play state, pressing the left edge of the button will skip to the previous track. † Headphone Volume Control knob: Turn this rotary knob to adjust the headphone volume. ‡ Headphone jack: This is a 3.5mm audio headphone jack. ˆ Line-out jack: Audio outputs signal to an amplifier.
BOTTOM OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE: • PCMCIA Interface Card Holder: Store the PCMCIA interface card when not used. ‚ Battery Lid: Slide and lift up the lid to install or remove the batteries.
CD-ROM POWER There are three power source options to choose to power the CD Traveler: 1. PCMCIA socket power direct 2. AC adapter 3. Battery. However, you can use only AC adapter or batteries when the CD-ROM is used as a stand-alone CD player. SELECTING THE POWER SOURCE The POWER SOURCE SWITCH (as shown in ‚ of Figure 2) is for selecting which power source to use. POWER SOURCE SWITCH is set to “PC” (Figure 4.a) The PCMCIA power direct is selected.
CONNECTING THE AC ADAPTER Remove the PCMCIA interface card from your computer. 2. 3. Attach the AC adapter to the AC outlet. CAUTION Use only the AC adapter provided with this unit or refer to the rear panel of the drive for the correct AC adapter. Using the incorrect AC adapter will cause permanent and unpredictable damage to the CD-ROM. INSTALLING THE BATTERIES The CD-ROM requires six AA size batteries (not included) for operation. The Alkaline batteries may last longer than other batteries.
POWER SWITCH Stand-alone CD player Pressing the POWER button (as shown in „ of Figure 2) will switch the CD drive power ‘on’ or ‘off’. The drive also has an inactivity timer which automatically powered off if it has been idle more than 40 seconds. CD-ROM operation The POWER button will not function because the drive power is controlled by the computer. ON/BUSY LED (as shown in ‚ of Figure 1) The LED indicate four status of the CD-Drive: 1. Power On: The LED will light dimly 2.
NOTICE • Use only the AC adapter provided with this unit or refer to the rear panel of the drive for the correct AC adapter specification. • If you are not using the unit with the AC adapter for a long period of time, disconnect it from the AC power outlet. • Do not mix old and new batteries, or different type of batteries (Ni-Cad and alkaline, etc.) • Always remove old, weak or worn-out batteries promptly and dispose of them properly.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Before you begin, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the PCMCIA CD-ROM to your computer. 1. Turn over the CD-ROM drive, locate the PCMCIA interface card at the back of the CDROM drive. Lift and take out the card from the holder as shown in Figure 6. 2. Place the CD-ROM drive upright in the horizontal position. 3. Make sure that the PCMCIA interface cable is firmly connected to the interface connector at the back panel of the CD-ROM drive. Figure 6 4.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.1 AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION This INSTALL program helps you install the device driver into your computer easily. Please follow the instructions below to proceed with the automatic installation. 1. Insert the device driver diskette into the floppy disk drive on your computer 2. Change the working directory to the floppy drive containing the device driver diskette by typing “A:” or “B:”, then press ENTER. 3.
NOTE: 1. INSTALL.EXE is only for DOS/Windows 3.x Mode, DO NOT use it under Windows 95, unless you want to use this device under pure MS-DOS. Please see APPENDIX B for detail. 2. If the device is not working properly, please refer to APPENDIX D to see if your system’s PCMCIA driver has been installed correctly.
MANUAL INSTALLATION You may manually install the device driver if the default setting conflicts with your system. Try the following procedure to complete the manual installation. 1) Copy the file named EXPCDG.EXE to a directory on your main hard disk. ( i.e. C:\CDROM). 2) Edit the config.sys add the following line at the end of the file. DEVICE=[drive] [path] EXPCDG.EXE /P:320 [/G] /P is used to set the I/O ports, and the valid numbers are 320, 340 and 360.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95 The following dialog box will appear when you are using the CD-ROM+ card under Windows 95 for the very first time. If the dialog box does not appear, either you have to remove the old driver installed before or the PCMCIA driver is not activated, please refer to the section titled “Enabling 32-Bit Card Support” or “Removing and Reinstalling the Driver”.
When the next dialog box appears, select “Portable CD-ROM” or “Portable CDROM + Game “ and click on the OK bottom. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue. After finishing, you need to calibrate your joystick or game-pad before you use it. REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DEVICE DRIVER You can always change your configuration by removing the driver and reinstalling again. To remove the driver A.
B.) If previously installed as “CD-ROM + GAME”: With the CD-ROM drive connected, go to the Control Panel. Click on “System”. Then choose “Device Manager, under “Multifunction adapters” click at the “+” sign to expand this list and then highlight “EXP PORTABLE MULTIMEDIA KIT: CD-ROM+GAME”, then click the “Remove” button.
BASIC OPERATING PROCEDURES Follow the instructions listed below to open the disc cover and insert/remove a CD. 1. Press the OPEN button. The disc cover will open slightly, and the ON/BUSY LED will blink as a warning signal. 2. If there is no disc inside, go to next step. Otherwise, wait until the drive stops spinning. You may check if the disc stop by looking through the disc cover window. 3. Lift the disc cover by the edges as shown in Figure 24. Figure 24 4.
USING THE PCMCIA CD-ROM AS A STAND-ALONE CD PLAYER In a stand-alone audio CD player operation, the CD need either the AC adapter or batteries for its power source, remember to set the POWER SOURCE SWITCH to “DC/BATT”. Refer to the section titled “CD-ROM POWER SOURCE” for details. It is not necessary to remove the PCMCIA interface card from the CD-ROM drive when the CD-ROM is in stand-alone mode. You may store the card in the card holder at the back panel of the drive.
Headphone Jack • Connect your headphone to his jack for listening to audio CD. Line-Out Jack • Connect this jack to the LINE-IN jack of the sound card in your computer or an amplifier with a 3.5 mm audio cable for better sound quality from the audio CD. USING THE PCMCIA CD-ROM WITH A COMPUTER Check the power source switch set it according to the power source.
2) Choose the Drivers icon from Control Panel, and choose the Add button to set up the driver [MCI] CD Audio. 3) Start the Media Player. 4) Select Device CD Audio from the menu bar. 5) Click the play button on the screen to start it. 6) Connect headphones set to the Headphone Jack 7) If your computer is equipped with a sound card, you can also connect the LINEOUT jack of your CD-ROM to the LINE-IN jack of the sound card with a 3.5 mm audio cable.
INSTALL A CD TITLE DOS/Windows 3.x Most of the CD-ROM titles for Windows 3.1/3.11 contain the SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE program in the CD disc. You need to start either one of the programs to add a Program Group and its icons into your computer, and perform the following, 1) In Program Manager click File => Run 2) Type in D: (or the drive letter assigned for CD-ROM) SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE. 3) Follow the on-screen instructions. 4) After complete setting up, click the icon for the program.
Windows 95 The hot-swapping is allowed with more limitation. To avoid system failure, always follow the below steps to hot remove the PCMCIA CD-ROM in Windows 95, 1) Click the PC card indicator on the task bar at the right bottom of screen. 2) Click the command to stop the card you want to remove. 3) Read the screen prompts instruction carefully. If the system prompts you not to remove the card, DO NOT remove the card. You should exit the present application and return to step 1.
APPENDIX A INSTALLING THE CD-ROM WITH THE GAME PORT ADAPTER (FOR CDG-820 MODEL ONLY) • CD-ROM Connector: This connector connects to the CDROM drive. ‚ Game Port: This port connects to a joystick or game-pad. ƒ PC Card Connector: Connector to the PCMCIA(PC Card) interface card - CD-ROM+ card 1. Connect the game adapter to your CD-ROM drive, and tighten the two screws on the game adapter. 2. Connect a joystick or game-pad to game port 3.
Incompatible List The following notebooks have been tested and has been confirmed as incompatible with the Game Port connected to the CD-ROM kit: Dell Gateway 2000 IBM Micron NEC TI Latitude LM Solo 2100 Thinkpad 760, Thinkpad 365CS Millennia Versa 2450 TravelMate 4000M If your notebook already has a built-in game port, due to the I/O conflict, you will NOT be able to use the Game Port adapter. For the latest update, please check our Web site at www.expnet.
APPENDIX B The following procedures will allow you to use the device in a pure MS-DOS environment for those applications that will not run in Windows 95 An MS-DOS mode icon is set up with a separate config.sys and autoexec.bat which will be run when the icon is used. The requirements are that your system’s PCMCIA controller has to be INTEL (PCIC) and compatible or the DOS PCMCIA socket drivers(contact your notebook manufacturer) are loaded before the EXP device DOS drivers.
• Click on "Finish" • Click on the right mouse button on the new MS-DOS Prompt icon Go to "Properties" Go to "Program" • •
• Click on the "Advanced" • Click the "MS-DOS mode" Click on "Specify a new MS-DOS configuration" Click on "OK". Then click "OK" again. This is the end of the DOS mode icon setup.
• • The Next steps are to configure the DOS mode session for the DOS drivers that are needed to run the CD-ROM/Game card. If you have a config.dos and autoexec.dos file on the "C" drive. Just put the lines that are missing in the corresponding boxes. If you do not have these files just continue without it. This just means that certain devices may not function without first loading the DOS drivers for this DOS mode session.
APPENDIX C ENABLING 32-BIT CARD SUPPORT OF WINDOWS 95 Your system should be ready for PCMCIA socket support prior to operating the CDROM and Game Port. To check whether your computer is PCMCIA Socket supported, first, double-click on the “System” icon from the “Control Panel” folder (you can select the “Control Panel” under “Settings” from the “Start” menu to open the “Control Panel” folder). Click on the Device Manager Tab.
In this case, double click on the PCMCIA Controller, and a dialog box will be displayed as below. Please place a check mark next to the current configuration of the Device usage box, and then select OK. After the PCMCIA 32-Bit Card support is installed, Windows will then ask you to reboot your computer. You should now refer to the first section in the manual entitled “Software Installation For Windows 95” to configure the CD-ROM and Game Port.
APPENDIX D PCMCIA SOFTWARE(DOS/WINDOWS3.X) INFORMATION If you have installed the PCMCIA software, such as SystemSoft’s CardSoft or Databook’s Cardtalk, then EXPCDG.EXE will call these PCMCIA software to enable the card. If you don’t have one, EXPCDG.EXE still can directly access your hardware to enable the card. In this case, your computer should have an Intel 82365SL Personal Computer Interface Controller (PCIC) or another compatible controller.
The device driver names of the major PCMCIA software are listed below: Software/Device SystemSoft Driver CardSoft Award IBM Cardware ThinkPad PCMSS.EXE SSPCIC.EXE IBMDSS02.SYS CS.EXE PCMCS.EXE PCCS.EXE IBMDOSCS.SYS CSALLOC.EXE PCMRMAN.SYS PCRM.EXE DICRMU02.SYS IDE/ATA Driver ATADRV.EXE PCMATA.SYS SRAM Card Driver MTSRAM.EXE Flash Card Support MTAA.EXE, Socket Services SS365SL.EXE, Phoenix SS365LP.EXE, SSCIRRUS.EXE, SSDBOOK.EXE, SVADEM.EXE, SSVLSI.
SYSTEMSOFT PCMCIA SOFTWARE SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS FILE LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-D3FF FILES=40 BUFFERS=20 STACKS=9,256 DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARSOFT\SS36SSL.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CS.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CSALLOC.EXE REM** The REM’s should be removed from thefollwing REM** lines to enable memory and hard drive card support REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTSRAM.EXE REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.
STACKS=9,256 DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\SSPCIC.EXE DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCCS.EXE DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCRM.EXE/AUTODETECT DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCENABLE.EXE REM CDROM+GAME I/O 320-32F, GAME DISABLE DEVICE=C:\CDROM\EXPCDG.EXE /P:320 IBM PCMCIA SOFTWARE SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS FILE LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEN.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF /MACHINE:2 DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF BUFFERS=40 FILES=40 STACKS=9,256 DOS=HIGH DEVICEHIGH=C:\THINKPAD\IBMDSS02.SYS /S0=2 DEVICEHIGH=C:\THINKPAD\IBMDOSCS.
