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 (external)
- Diskette drive (external)
- Display
- DVD drives (external)
- 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
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static electricity 82
status indicators
battery charge
6, 24, 48
Caps Lock 24
drive activity 23
hard drive 23
location 12
numeric keypad 24
Pad Lock 24
power 6, 23
toggle on or off 26, 114
troubleshooting 114
supervisor password 60
surge protector 17
Suspend 26
system identification label 3
system keys
combinations 26
locating 25
system recovery 68, 79
T
technical support
Support
3
tips before contacting 115
telephone
acoustic handset coupler 58
line protector 58
line tester 58
telephone support 115
touchpad
buttons
28
clicking 29
double-clicking 29
dragging screen objects 30
locating 12
moving pointer 28, 29
moving screen objects 30
opening files, folders, and
programs 29
opening shortcut menu 29
right-clicking 29
scroll zone 28
selecting screen objects 29
travel tips 57
troubleshooting
audio
113
diskette drive 91
display 92
DVD drive 93
faxes 104
files 95
general guidelines 90
hard drive 96
Internet connection 97, 104
keyboard 98
LCD panel 92
Media Center 99
memory 101
memory card reader 102
modem 102
mouse 106
network 107, 108
passwords 110
PC Cards 111
power 111
printer 112
safety guidelines 90
screen 92, 114
screen area 92
screen resolution 92
sound 113
status indicators 114
technical support 115
telephone support 115
touchpad 114
video 114
Web site connection speed
97
turning off
notebook
21, 22
wireless network 26, 32
turning on
notebook
20
wireless network 26, 32
U
upgrading 81
USB port 9, 39
user password 60