Dell VOSTRO 1000 PP23LB Manual de usuario

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Dell™ Vostro™ 1000 Owner’s Manual

Model PP23LB

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Notes, Notices, and Cautions

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your computer.

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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 "Glossary" on page 159.

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Model PP23LB

May 2007 P/N WY122 Rev. A00

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Contents

1 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Determining Your Computer’s Configuration . . . . . . 17

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 29

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 30

Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

With the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . . 31

Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

Without the Operating System Media . . . . . . . 32

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 36

4 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Switching the Video Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting Display Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

5 Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad . . . . 39

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

CD or DVD Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Speaker Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . 41

Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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6 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Dell™ QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Microsoft®Windows®Power Meter . . . . . . . 46

Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Power Management Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . 50

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Playing a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Copying CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using Blank CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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8 Using Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . 61

Media Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Installing a Media Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . 62

Removing a Media Memory Card . . . . . . . . . 63

9 Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Physically Connecting to a Network or Broadband

Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) . . . . . . . . . 66

What You Need to Establish a WLAN

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 67

Setting Up a New WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Connecting to a Wireless Local Area

Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Enabling/Disabling the Wireless

Network Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

10 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Computer Tracking Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . 74

11 Solving Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

CD and DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . 82

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

The computer does not start up . . . . . . . . . . 91

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 91

A program stops responding or crashes

repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft®

Windows®operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 92

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Ensuring Sufficient Power for Your Computer . . . 95

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 97

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 97

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 99

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 100

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 101

Resolving Software and Hardware

Incompatibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using Microsoft Windows XP System

Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using Dell PC Restore by Symantec . . . . . . . . 106

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 108

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12 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 111

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . 112

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Wireless Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

13 Dell™ QuickSet Features . . . . . . . . . . . 133

14 Traveling With Your Computer . . . . . . . 135

Identifying Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Packing the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Travel Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Traveling by Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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

16 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

17 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Entering System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Commonly Used Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Cleaning Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Computer, Keyboard, and Display . . . . . . . . . 153

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

FCC Notice (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

FCC Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Macrovision Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

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