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
- 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
- PC Cards
- Pointing device
- Power
- Printer
- Sound
- Status indicators
- Touchpad or pointing device
- Video
- Telephone support
- Legal Information
- Index
133
A
AC adapter
connecting
16
connector 9
international adapters 56
accessories
purchasing
48
safety precautions 125
acoustic handset coupler 62
airplane power adapters 48
application key 25
arrow keys 25
audio
adjusting volume
28, 31
back button 27
headphone jack 6
microphone jack 6
muting 28, 31
next button 27
pause button 27
play button 27
stop button 27
troubleshooting 119
volume down button 28
volume up button 28
audio CD
cleaning
72
inserting 38
automobile power adapter 56
automobile power adapters 48
B
battery
alternate power sources
56
bay 53
changing 53
charge indicator 6, 52
charge status 52
charging 16, 52
conserving power 55
icons 52
installing 53
latch 10
locating 10
managing power 55
monitoring charge 52
purchasing 48
recalibrating 54
recharging 16, 52
release latch 10
replacing 53
bays
battery 53
hard drive 10
memory 10, 87
BIOS Setup utility 54
Bluetooth 27
brightness
adjusting 27, 28, 31
system keys 27, 28
C
cable lock 7
cable modem 9, 19
camera
See digital camera
See digital video camera
Caps Lock indicator
23
cards
inserting memory card
39
inserting PC Card 40
memory card slot 6
memory cards supported
39
PC Card slot 7
removing memory card 39
removing PC Card 40
slots 39, 40
troubleshooting memory
card
108
troubleshooting PC Card
117
Index