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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Adjusting brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Turning your wireless radio on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
IEEE 802.11 wireless network radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Bluetooth radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 4: Using Drives and Accessories . . . . . 35
Using the memory card reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Memory card types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Inserting a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Removing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Adding and removing a PC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using an optional port replicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing a printer or other peripheral device . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connecting an IEEE 1394 device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Viewing the display on a projector or monitor . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adjusting the display properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the projector or monitor for a presentation . . . . 43
Ordering accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 5: Managing Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Monitoring the battery charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Recharging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Changing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Recalibrating the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Getting the most from your battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Maximizing battery performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Conserving battery power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using alternate power sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Changing power modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Changing notebook power settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing the power plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55