[hemmerling] SIS630 Computers 1/4 - The Clevo 2700c Notebook Family

My Clevo 2700c Notebook

I bought my “Clevo 2700c” notebook, branded as ”Baycom Worldbook” notebook, at ATELCO Computer. Later, tronic'5 was using the trademark “Baycom”, in Germany.
It was a premature budget decision to buy this notebook. With a little more money, I might have bought a notebook of DELL - with a longer guarantee / warrenty period, better support, a bigger display, better technical data and better performance when running LINUX. How about you ?

A note about Clevo. I was told, that there was a sort of discontinuity in 1999 or so. The old company Clevo was closed down, but the name was assigned to a new company which continued business. Must be very easy in Taiwan...
The Clevo 2700c / 2200c, 2700s / 2200s and Clevo 2700t / 2200t notebooks are sister models. The single differences:
- The 2700c / 2200c models have a non-mobile CPU, SIS630S chipset, S-Video (“TV”) output, a standard parallel printer port and a standard PCI 1394 firewire interface. They haven't any serial RS-232 interface ( “COM1” ).
- The 2700s / 2200s models have a mobile CPU, SIS630S chipset, a standard parallel printer port and a serial RS-232 interface ( “COM1” ). They have no S-Video (“TV”) output and are not equipped with a standard PCI 1394 firewire interface.
- The 2700t / 2200t models are like the 2700c / 2200c models, but are equipped with a SIS630ST chipset.
- 2700 models differ from 2200 modells by the case color ! Tell me if you know about other differences!
Clevo once offered drivers and both user manuals and technical for free download, by FTP ( FTP "ftp.clevo.com.tw" ).

Gericom "Overdose 2200c" - Win95/98, W2K and WinXP drivers are offered for free download.

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp ( SIS ) offers once Win95/98 and W2K drivers for graphics cards with SIS630S chipset for free download.
- SiS Download Center - Select:
  - “WinXP”, “IGP Graphics Drivers”, “SiS630 & SiS730 series”.
  - “Windows 2000”, “IGP Graphics Drivers”, “SiS630 & SiS730 series”.
  - “Windows 98SE”, “IGP Graphics Drivers”, “SiS630 & SiS730 series”.

The built-in DVD drive of my notebook is a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2402, Firmware 1J09.
- NetCom Direct "Toshiba SDC2402 8X24X IDE Slim Line DVD-ROM Drive (SD-C2402)".
- Archive.org "Dell Spezifikationen: Toshiba SD-C2402 DVD-ROM-Laufwerk - Bedienungsanleitung".
- According to the specifications, the DVD drive can read CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-R media, but not DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW media .

The original “CLEVO 2700C” accu: “Li-ion 14.8V 3600mAH 87-2208S-42G”.
Amazon.DE "Akku für AddscreenTyp 87-2208S-42C, 14,8V, Li-Ion".
aku-shop.cz "Akumulátor pro FOSA typ M22BAT-8".
nabaterie.cz "Baterie pro Addscreentyp 87-2208S-42C (4400mAh/65Wh)".
~~AQ Vertrieb-Bacher~~.
- ~~Archive.org "AQ Vertrieb-Bacher - Clevo"~~ ( - 2006 ) - Accus for Clevo notebooks.
Mobility rating: The accumulator of my notebook is sufficient for playing a DVD video for 90 minutes on the internal TFT display. Mobility Extension: Get an ordinary extra notebooks-specific accumulator or get external accumlators

SIS integrated a Chrontel CH7005 compatible hardware into the SIS630 chipset ( see “Display / Configuration” of Win98SE, if the S-Video output is activated by attaching a TV set to the notebook ).
- Archive.org "CH7005 Digital PC to TV Encoder - Chrontel - The world's leading supplier of PC-TV encoders".
The Video Live tools ( - 2007-12-16 ) support the Chrontel 7005 chipset !
With “S-Video > FBAS” converters, my notebook may be connected to RGB monitors, TV sets and video recorders without S-Video input.
- SVID, a S-Video > FBAS converter.
- Henrik Haftmann - “S-VHS-zu-FBAS-Konverter (ganz einfach!?)”.
A “line to microphone” ( "Line level signal to microphone input adapter" ( - 2007-01-27 ), Archive.org "EDCOR Electronics - Line to Microphone Output" ( - 2004-03-10 ) ) converter may adapt an audio signal with line-in level, like that of TV adapters with USB interface, to microphone input level. Note that many notebooks don't have a line-in input, but just a microphone input !

With Archive.org "IRAssistant" ( - 2008-09-11 ), you may control your notebook by an infrared remote control.

Win98SE works fine and stable on my notebook. The driver CD claims complete to provide W2K support, too ( untested ).
Installation note: The file “sis630.cat” is located on the driver CD at “Z:\video\win2000\win2000\sis630.cat” but not at “Z:\video\win9x\” nore at “Z:\video\win9x\german\”.
Installation advice: Please copy the LAN and AUDIO driver directory from the driver CD onto the harddisk, so that concurrent access both to the driver files and the original WIN98 CD is possible - else you risk a failure of the installation process.
Installation advice by André Ballentin: Please install the sound card prior to the modem !
For my notebook with SiS630S chipset, the utility SISIDE.EXE of the archive “W2kdma.exe”, which was once available at SiS, helps changing the SiS IDE controller running in PIO mode to run in DMA mode under Win95/98 and W2K.

Archive.org "Dino Fratelli - Modem Smartlink HAMR5600 56K AMR".
Linux Notebook HQ → Reference link to my old SIS630 fanpage.
Linux on Laptops → Reference link to my old SIS630 fanpage.
Alfonso Martone - Notebook with SIS630 graphics → Reference link to my old SIS630 fanpage.
Microsoft Help and Support "CardBus Device Not Enumerated with TI 14xx or 44xx CardBus Controllers".
Bryan Moffit "Getting the PC-Chips 756LMRT Motherboard to work with Linux 2.4.* and Xfree86 4.0.*" - With SIS630 graphics card.
Archive.org "NotebooksOnly - Technical Notes for 2273" ( - 2005-10-29 ) - Additional technical notes for the Clevo 2200 notebook family, here: brand name “2273”.
tronic'5 - German support for “Baycom” branded Clevo 2700c notebooks. Once there was a free download of WIN95/98 and W2K drivers.