Quick Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Reference
- Checking Out Your Notebook
- Setting Up and Getting Started
- Working safely and comfortably
- Connecting the AC adapter
- Connecting the dial-up modem
- Connecting to a broadband modem or network
- Starting your notebook
- Turning off your notebook
- Restarting (rebooting) your notebook
- Using the status indicators
- Using the keyboard
- Using the EZ Pad touchpad
- Adjusting brightness
- Adjusting the volume
- Turning your wireless radio on or off
- Using Drives and Accessories
- Managing Power
- Traveling with Your Notebook
- Maintaining Your Notebook
- Upgrading Your Notebook
- Troubleshooting
- Safety guidelines
- First steps
- Troubleshooting
- Audio
- Battery
- CD drives
- Diskette drive (external)
- Display
- DVD drives
- Ethernet
- Express cards
- File management
- Hard drive
- Internet
- Keyboard
- Media Center
- The Media Center video display looks bad on your TV
- You need to configure your Media Center to output to a TV
- You want to change display settings to get better TV or DVD image quality
- You want to know whether you can burn videos that were recorded with your Media Center computer to a DVD
- You want to know whether you can play recorded videos on other computers
- You want to know whether you can play recorded videos on your home DVD player
- Memory
- Memory card reader
- Modem (cable or DSL)
- Modem (dial-up)
- Your modem does not dial or does not connect
- You cannot connect to the Internet
- Your 56K modem does not connect at 56K
- Your fax communications program only sends and receives faxes at 14,400 bps when you have a 56K modem
- The modem is not recognized by your notebook
- The modem is noisy when it dials and connects
- Mouse
- Networks (wired)
- Networks (wireless)
- You turned wireless networking on, but it takes a while to connect
- Your connection on the network seems intermittent or your wireless network is running slower than you expect
- You are in a wireless network, you can see the network, but cannot communicate, send files, print, or get to the Web
- You are in a wireless network, but no available networks are listed in the Connect to a network dialog box
- Your wireless network is listed as a preferred network, but it has an “x” on it
- Internet Explorer is unable to access the Internet
- You cannot see other computers on your network
- You cannot connect to your network
- Passwords
- Pointing device
- Power
- Printer
- Sound
- Status indicators
- Touchpad or pointing device
- Video
- Telephone support
- Legal Information
- Index
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Index
CD drive
See DVD drive
cellular phone
memory cards 38
Certificate of Authenticity 3
cleaning
audio CD
68
case 65
CD 68
DVD 68
keyboard 66
LCD panel 66
notebook exterior 65
screen 66
clicking 30
closing unresponsive program
22
connecting
AC adapter
16
dial-up modem 18
external keyboard 25
external monitor 42
keyboard 25
mouse 29
printer 41
projector 42
scanner 41
to cable modem 19
to DSL modem 19
to Ethernet 19
to network 19
video camera 41
connections
audio
6
broadband Internet 8, 19
cable modem 8, 19
dial-up modem 8, 18
digital camera 7
DSL modem 8, 19
Ethernet 8, 19
external audio 6
external diskette drive 7, 41
external speakers 6
flash drive 7, 41
headphone 6
keyboard 7
microphone 6
modem (dial-up) 8, 18
monitor (VGA) 8, 42
mouse 7
network 8, 19
power 9, 16
printer 7
projector 42
scanner 7
speaker 6
USB 7, 41
VGA 8, 42
copyright notice 126
D
default printer 112
dialing codes 58
dial-up modem 8, 18
digital camera
memory card reader
7, 38
USB port 7
digital video camera
connecting
41
directional keys 26
disc drive indicator 25
diskette
troubleshooting 92
diskette drive
troubleshooting 92
display
brightness 31
switching 27
troubleshooting 92
double-clicking 30
dragging 31
drivers
recovering 69
drives
CD 36
DVD 36
DVD/CD-RW 8, 36
DVD±RW 8, 37
hard drive 10, 86
identifying drive types 36
multi-format DVD±RW 8, 37