User manual DELL INSPIRON 4150

[. . . ] DellTM InspironTM 4150 Owner's Manual w w w. c o m Hints, Notices, and Cautions HINT: A HINT 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. [. . . ] 4 From the Windows desktop, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and click Notepad. 5 Type some characters on the external keyboard and verify that they appear on the display. If the characters appear now but did not with the external keyboard, you may have a defective external keyboard. Contact Dell (see page 108). Unexpected Characters DIS A B L E T H E N U M E R I C K E Y P A D -- Press to disable the numeric keypad if numbers are displayed instead of letters. Verify that the numbers lock light is not lit. Drive Problems HINT: For information on saving files to a floppy disk, see the Tell Me How help file. To access the help file, see page 56. If you cannot save a file to a floppy disk drive E N S U R E T H A T W I N D O W S ® R E C O G N I Z E S T H E D R I V E -- Click the Start button and click My Computer. If the drive is not listed, perform a full scan with your antivirus software to check for and remove viruses. Viruses can sometimes prevent Windows from recognizing the drive. Insert a bootable disk and restart the computer. Verify that the light is blinking, indicating normal operation. 66 So l vi n g Pro b l em s E N S U R E T H A T T H E D I S K I S N O T W R I T E - P R O T E C T E D -- You cannot save data to a write-protected disk. back of floppy disk write-protected not write-protected TR Y A N O T H E R F L O P P Y D I S K -- Insert another disk to eliminate the possibility that the original disk is defective. RE I N S T A L L T H E D R I V E -- 1 Save and close any open files, exit any open programs, and shut down the computer. See "About the Module Bay" on page 38 for instructions. C L E A N T H E D R I V E -- See "Cleaning Your Computer" in the Tell Me How help file for instructions. To access the help file, see page 56. If you cannot play a CD, CD-RW, or DVD High-speed CD drive vibration is normal and may cause noise. This noise does not indicate a defect with the drive or the CD. HINT: Because of different worldwide file types, not all DVD titles work in all DVD drives. So l vi n g Pro b l em s 67 w w w. c o m E N S U R E T H A T W I N D O W S ® R E C O G N I Z E S T H E D R I V E -- Click the Start button and click My Computer. If the drive is not listed, perform a full scan with your antivirus software to check for and remove viruses. Viruses can sometimes prevent Windows from recognizing the drive. Insert a bootable disk and restart the computer. Verify that the light is blinking, indicating normal operation. TR Y A N O T H E R D I S C -- Insert another disc to eliminate the possibility that the original disc is defective. A D J U S T T H E W I N D O W S V O L U M E C O N T R O L -- Double-click the speaker icon in the lower-right corner of your screen. [. . . ] Intel's Commitment to Quality Intel is committed to producing the highest quality processors available. That's why we have hundreds of people dedicated to continuously improve our design, manufacturing, and testing technology. We put every one of our Pentium® and Celeron® processors through a rigorous battery of tests during the design and manufacturing processes. To verify that the new chip will correctly run the software written for Intel Architecture processors, a team of Intel engineers is dedicated to compatibility testing. [. . . ]