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ENGLISH

Thank you for purchasing the DVD-ROM Drive Pack for the Panasonic CF-37 notebook
computer series.

When mounted in the multimedia pocket of the computer in place of a CD-ROM drive, this

product functions as an internal DVD-ROM drive. Store this manual in a safe place after
reading it.

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• When using a ZV card, a SMI VPM driver is required to play DVD-Video or MPEG2 files.

Installing the SMI VPM driver "Reference Manual"

# The region code has been set to the following:

Region code is set to “1”.

Region code is set to “2”.

Use of another region code or alteration of the region code invalidates the warranty.

For more information, contact Panasonic Technical Support.

# If commercially available DVD playback software asks you the region code, set to the follow­

ing:

Set to "1".

Set to "2".

• When using CF-37VB***** or CF-37LB***** model, the setting of [CD-ROM/DVD-ROM

Drive Speed] in [Power] menu of the Setup Utility is not available.

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Refer to the Operating Instructions and Reference Manual accompanying the computer about

precautions, mounting, unmounting, software preparation and troubleshooting.

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Supplementary instructions for the Reference Manual

This section explains the case where the operation of computer differs from "CD-ROM/
DVD-ROM drive" in the Reference Manual.

• In "Software Preparation (first time only)", the name of has been

changed as following.

[MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8173] ^ [MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-****]

• Replace "Power-saving mode" for the following.

Power-saving mode

If the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive has not been accessed within 30 seconds (in the case

of CD-ROM drive) or 90 seconds (in the case of DVD-ROM drive), the drive motor will
automatically shut down to reduce the power consumption. When the CD-ROM drive is

accessed once again, the power of the drive motor is turned on. However, approximately

30 seconds arc required until data is actually read from the disc.

The following procedure is needed, (first time only)

1 Select [Start] - [Settings] - [Control Panel] - [System] - [Hardware] - [Device Manager].

2 Select [Primary IDE Channel] in [IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers],

3 Select [Advanced Settings], and set [Transfer Mode] in [Device 1] to [DMA if available].

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