Dell XPS PP06XA Manual de usuario

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Dell™ XPS™ M1730 Owner’s Manual

Model PP06XA

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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.

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Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries; Bluetooth is a registered trademark

owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell under license. Logitech, the Logitech logo, and the

LogitechproductsreferredtohereinareeitherthetrademarksortheregisteredtrademarksofLogitech.

Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming

the marks and names or their products. Dell Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and

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Model PP06XA

April 2008 P/N TM373 Rev. A04

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Contents

Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 33

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 34

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 38

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3 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using a Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Making Images and Text Look Bigger or Sharper . . . 40

Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Windows Vista™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . 41

Microsoft Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

4 Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Keyboard Illumination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Keyboard Illumination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . 44

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Dell™ QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Microsoft®Windows®Battery Meter . . . . . . . 48

Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Power Management Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Standby and Sleep Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Hibernate Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . . . 52

Accessing Power Options Properties . . . . . . . 52

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Removing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

6 Using the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Accessing the Camera’s Help File . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Manually Adjusting the Camera Settings . . . . . . . . 56

Creating a Picture or a Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

7 Using GamePanel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

GamePanel Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Playing Media Using Dell Express Card Remote Control (Optional)

Copying CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) Media . . . 62

How to Copy a CD, DVD or BD . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using Blank CD, DVD, and BD Media . . . . . . . 63

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Connecting Your Computer to a TV or Audio Device . . 68

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

S-Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . 72

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . 74

Composite Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 76

Component Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . 78

Component Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 80

DVI to HDMI and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . 82

Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 83

9 Using Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . 87

Memory Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Memory Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Installing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Memory Card or Blank . . . . . . . . 90

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10 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 91

Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem Cable . . 91

Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

What You Need to Establish a WLAN Connection . 93

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 93

Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless Router and a

Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide Area Network) . 98

What You Need to Establish a Mobile Broadband Network

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . 99

Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 100

Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile Broadband Card 100

Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 101

11 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

12 Cleaning Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Computer, Keyboard, and Display . . . . . . . . . 105

CDs, DVDs and BDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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13 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Dell Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Dell Support Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Optical drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

E-Mail and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 123

A program stops responding or crashes repeatedly 123

A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft®Windows®

operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area Network [WWAN]) 127

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Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 131

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 131

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 134

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 135

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting Software and Hardware Problems in the Microsoft®

Windows®XP and Microsoft Windows Vista™ Operating Systems

139

Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . 141

Starting System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using Dell™ PC Restore and Dell Factory Image Restore 143

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 146

14 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 149

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . 150

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Removing the Hard Drive Cage . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Replacing a Hard Drive in the Hard Drive Cage . . 154

Replacing the Hard Drive Cage . . . . . . . . . . 155

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Internal Card With Bluetooth™ Wireless Technology . 160

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

15 Traveling With Your Computer . . . . . . . . 163

Identifying Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Packing the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Travel Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Traveling by Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Obtaining Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Technical Support and Customer Service . . . . . 166

DellConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Online Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

AutoTech Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Automated Order-Status Service . . . . . . . . . 167

Problems With Your Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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