Asus X72VM - Manual (Page 18)

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Knowing the Parts
Optical Drive
The Notebook PC comes in various models with different optical drives. The Notebook
PC’s optical drive may support compact discs (CD) and/or digital video discs (DVD) and
may have recordable (R) or re-writable (RW) capabilities. See the marketing specifica-
tions for details on each model.
Optical Drive Emergency Eject (location varies by model)
The emergency eject is used to eject the optical drive tray in case the electronic eject does
not work. Do not use the emergency eject in place of the electronic eject.
Optical Drive Electronic Eject
The optical drive eject has an electronic eject button for opening the tray. You can also eject
the optical drive tray through any software player or by right clicking the optical drive in
Windows “Computer” and selecting Eject.
Optical Drive Activity Indicator (location varies by model)
The optical drive activity indicator shows when data is being transferred by the optical disk drive.
This indicator will light in proportion to the data size transferred.
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Flash Memory Slot
Normally an external memory card reader must be purchased separately in order to use
memory cards from devices such as digital cameras, MP3 players, mobile phones, and
PDAs. This Notebook PC has a built-in high-speed memory card reader that can conveniently
read from and write to many flash memory cards as mentioned later in this manual.
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