HiNote VP Documentation
HiNote VP Documentation describes the Digital Equipment Corporation user's and service guides for the HiNote VP notebooks, with the PDF of each. All five came from DEC's support site, later Compaq's and HP's legacy support pages, and were copied from a mirror of those pages.[1]
Digital HiNote VP User's Guide (ER-P90WW-UA.A01)
DEC's user's guide for the first Pentium HiNote VP, 120 pages with a text layer; Manx dates the part number to January 1996.[2][3] It covers features, installation and set-up, the NiMH battery and AC power system, power management, the BIOS setup program, PCMCIA cards and options, and troubleshooting.[2]
Download: Digital HiNote VP User's Guide (ER-P90WW-UA.A01).pdf
Digital HiNote VP 500 Series User's Guide (ER-PD1WF-UA.A01)
DEC's user's guide for the VP 500 series, March 1997, 141 pages: features; battery care in chapter 2 (NiMH memory effect, battery life and forming, lithium-ion, the smart battery gauge, low battery activity); power management and suspend modes; BIOS setup; options; and a troubleshooting chapter of questions and answers.[4] A 13-page addendum (ER-PD1WF-AA.A01) supersedes parts of it; it is on the same mirror and not hosted here.[1]
Download: Digital HiNote VP 500 Series User's Guide (ER-PD1WF-UA.A01).pdf
DIGITAL HiNote VP 550-575 Series Service Quick Reference Guide (ER-PD1WF-SR.A01)
DEC's service guide for the VP 550 and 575 (models VSS5120, VSS5133, VTS5150 and VTS5166), October 1997, 120 pages, written for DIGITAL-approved on-site engineers and for repair to module level only.[5] Chapters: 1 overview (CPU and chipset, memory, BIOS, video, ports, component views); 2 system restoration; 3 the BIOS setup program and flash BIOS; 4 troubleshooting tips, checkpoints and Phoenix BIOS test points with beep codes, and BIOS messages; 5 FRU replacement (battery, CD/diskette module and second battery, hard disk, keyboard, CPU, shell); 6 specifications; 7 device mapping; appendix A service notes with the FRU part numbers.[5] It has no schematics or component-level information.[5]
Download: Digital HiNote VP 550-575 Series Service Quick Reference Guide (ER-PD1WF-SR.A01).pdf
DIGITAL HiNote VP 700 Series User's Guide (ER-PJ1WW-UA.A01)
DEC's user's guide for the VP 700 series, September 1997, 139 pages: features and the LCD status display, battery care including lithium-ion conditioning, power management, BIOS setup, options, troubleshooting, caring for the notebook (chapter 7) and an appendix covering the CMOS battery.[6]
Download: Digital HiNote VP 700 Series User's Guide (ER-PJ1WW-UA.A01).pdf
DIGITAL HiNote VP 700 Series Service Quick Reference Guide (ER-PJ1WW-SR.A01)
DEC's service guide for the VP 700 series (models MSX5166M, MTX5166M and MTX5233M), December 1997, 149 pages: overview with battery care (pp. 1-21 to 1-25); system restoration; BIOS setup with the CMOS battery note (p. 3-1); troubleshooting by symptom (power supply, boot-up, POST, LCD, CRT, keyboard, mouse, hard disk, diskette and other failures) with BIOS test points; FRU replacement with part numbers; and specifications in appendix A.[7]
Download: Digital HiNote VP 700 Series Service Quick Reference Guide (ER-PJ1WW-SR.A01).pdf
Not hosted here
The mirror also holds quick reference cards for the VP 500 and 700 series and a Windows NT addendum for the VP 700.[1] Manx catalogues DEC's HiNote field service and field training material and a VP 500 series user's guide addendum for models 510 to 545 (ER-PB1WF-AA.B01), without working copies.[3] Wikipedia cites a VP 500 series service guide (September 1996) on Manx at an address that no longer serves the file.[8]
Pages that cite these documents
- HiNote VP – models, hardware, batteries
- HiNote VP General Maintenance – cleaning, battery routine, modules
- HiNote VP Troubleshooting Guide – symptom tables, BIOS codes and messages
- HiNote VP Battery Replacement – battery types, part numbers, forming, CMOS battery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Directory listing of the mirror of h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupport/digital/pdf/ at zx.net.nz, retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital HiNote VP User's Guide, ER-P90WW-UA.A01, title page and contents.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Manx catalogue entries for "Digital HiNote VP User's Guide" (ER-P90WW-UA.A01, 1996-01), "Digital HiNote VP 500 Series User's Guide Addendum (510-545)" and "HiNote Field Service/Field Training", manx-docs.org, retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital HiNote VP 500 Series User's Guide, ER-PD1WF-UA.A01, title page and contents.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Digital Equipment Corporation, DIGITAL HiNote VP 550-575 Series Service Quick Reference Guide, ER-PD1WF-SR.A01, title page, preface and contents.
- ↑ Digital Equipment Corporation, DIGITAL HiNote VP 700 Series User's Guide, ER-PJ1WW-UA.A01, title page and contents.
- ↑ Digital Equipment Corporation, DIGITAL HiNote VP 700 Series Service Quick Reference Guide, ER-PJ1WW-SR.A01, title page and contents.
- ↑ "Digital HiNote", Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_HiNote, reference to the Digital HiNote VP 500 Series Service Guide, September 1996.