Dell Inspiron 8600 Manual de usuario

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Dell™ Inspiron™ 8600

Owner’s Manual

Model PP02X

Notes, Notices, and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your

computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you

how to avoid the problem.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

For a complete list of abbreviations and acronyms, see the Tell Me How help file (see

page 94).

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Dimension, OptiPlex, and Latitude are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation; Intel, Pentium, and Celeron are

registered trademarks of Intel Corporation; Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation;

Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell Computer Corporation under license; EMC

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Model PP02X

July 2003 P/N D2513 Rev. A00

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Contents

CAUTION: Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Air Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

EMC Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

California Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

When Using Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ergonomic Computing Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

When Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

1A Tour of Your Computer

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Left View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Right View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Back View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

2Setting Up Your Computer

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Modem and Internet Connection Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . . . . . . 36

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a Parallel Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting Up the Docking Device to Connect to a Network . . . . 41

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

3Using Batteries and Module Bay Devices

Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Installing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Removing and Installing a Reserve Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

About the Module Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Checking the Charge on the Second Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Removing and Installing Devices While the Computer

Is Turned Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Removing and Installing Devices While the Computer

Is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4Using the Keyboard and Touchpad

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

CD or DVD Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Radios (Including Wireless Networking and Bluetooth™) . . . . 61

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Speaker Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

External Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Unexpected Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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5Using CDs, DVDs, and Other Multimedia

Using CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

CD or DVD problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

If you cannot play a CD, CD-RW, or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . 68

If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive tray . . . . . 69

If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . 69

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

If you have a problem with integrated speakers . . . . . . . . . 69

If you have a problem with external speakers . . . . . . . . . . 69

Copying CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using Easy CD Creator Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Blank CD-R Discs or Blank CD-RW Discs . . . . . . . . 71

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How to Copy a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Connecting a Television to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

S-Video and Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Composite Video and Digital Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Enabling the Display Settings for a Television . . . . . . . . . 82

Enabling Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio for DVD Playback . . . . . . 84

6Setting Up a Home and Office Network

Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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7Solving Problems

Finding Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Accessing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

E-Mail Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

If Your Computer Gets Wet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . 105

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Using System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . 106

Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . 108

Reinstalling Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Reinstalling Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

8Adding and Replacing Parts

Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Adding a Mini PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Adding a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

9Appendix

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Standard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Viewing the System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Commonly Used Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Dell Technical Support Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals . . . . . 139

Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . 139

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

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Regulatory Noticesthe help file, see . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

NOM Information (Mexico Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Limited Warranties and Return Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Limited Warranty for Dell-Branded Hardware Products

(U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . 162

Limited Warranty Terms for Dell-Branded Hardware

Products (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . 165

Dell Software and Peripherals (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . 166

1-Year End-User Manufacturer Guarantee

(Latin America and the Caribbean Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Intel®Warranty Statement for Pentium®and

Celeron®Processors Only (U.S. and Canada Only) . . . . . . . 169

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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