User manual TOSHIBA QOSMIO F30 (PQF32)

[. . . ] TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION SYSTEMS ("TOSHIBA"), ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU AGREE THAT TOSHIBA, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF ANY BUSINESS, PROFITS, PROGRAMS, DATA OR REMOVABLE STORAGE MEDIA ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. Protection of Stored Data For your important data, please make periodic back-up copies of all the data stored on the hard disk or other storage devices as a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of the data. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM. WHEN COPYING OR TRANSFERRING YOUR DATA, PLEASE BE SURE TO CONFIRM WHETHER THE DATA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COPIED OR TRANSFERRED. [. . . ] An Uninstall QosmioPlayer dialog box appears. When an Uninstall QosmioPlayer warning dialog box appears. A final window appears for the uninstall procedure. 7 8 Click Uninstall to complete the process. Click OK when the reboot window appears, to restart your computer. After your computer has restarted, a dialog box appears to confirm that it is okay to format the hard disk drive. You may also remove QosmioPlayer from your computer using the QosmioPlayer Recovery Media. To do so, simply Exploring Your Options Installing the QosmioPlayer Recovery media 173 boot up the computer with the QosmioPlayer disc in the drive and select option 3: Delete "QosmioPlayer. " NOTE If you delete the QosmioPlayer using the Qosmio player media, you will not retrieve the approximately 100MB of storage space on your hard disk drive under Windows. If you want to restore the QosmioPlayer after deleting it using the QosmioPlayer media, see "Installing the QosmioPlayer Recovery media" below. Installing the QosmioPlayer Recovery media You can install the QosmioPlayer program in one of two ways (depending upon if QosmioPlayer was previously removed from your computer). On systems with QosmioPlayer currently installed To recover or repair QosmioPlayer on a computer that still has the application installed: 1 2 3 Insert the QosmioPlayer Recovery media into the drive, close the drive tray, and restart your computer from the CD. Press the 1 key on the computer's keyboard to recover to the initial configuration. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the recovery. 174 Exploring Your Options Installing the QosmioPlayer Recovery media On systems with QosmioPlayer previously uninstalled using the Windows® "Add/Remove Programs" If you have previously removed QosmioPlayer from your computer, and wish to reinstall it, doing so will require you to recover the entire system using the Recovery media that shipped with your computer after the QosmioPlayer installation has been completed. After completing the QosmioPlayer recovery procedure, you must use your system's Recovery media to recover the Windows operating system. Performing the recovery procedure on your computer removes all data files. If your TV accepts component video inputs: Connect the component video adapter cable (included with your computer) to the TV's component video input. Connect the adapter cable to the D-connector on the back of your computer. If your TV accepts S-video inputs: Connect an S-video cable (not shipped with your computer) from the TV's S-video input connection to the S-video Out connector on the back of your computer. 3 Connect an audio cable (not shipped with your computer or system) from the TV's audio connection to the headphone jack on the right side of your computer. Turn on the TV, then turn on the computer. To send the display signal to the TV, press the "Instant TV Out" button, which is the furthest right button of the Media control buttons above the keyboard (or press FN+F5), and then toggle to the TV icon. This step must be taken before launching the Media Center or the InterVideo WinDVDTM Player. 4 5 NOTE Getting to Know the Windows ® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Media Center Setup 179 Connecting the TV Signal Source When You Have an Existing Setup This section describes how to connect the signal source from the wall to a VCR/DVD player to a TV using two coaxial cables (not shipped with your computer or system). 1 Remove the coaxial cable from the VCR/DVD player input, and connect it to the input of a coaxial cable signal splitter (not shipped with your computer or system). Connect two coaxial cables to the splitter outputs. Connect one of the coaxial cables to the VCR/DVD player input, and the other end to coaxial adapter cable (included with your computer). Connect the adapter cable to the Antenna In port on the back of the computer. To connect your computer to a TV, you need an S-video cable (not included with your computer or system). 2 3 NOTE Connecting a VCR/DVD player or Set-Top Box to the Computer There are three different ways you can connect a VCR/DVD player or Set-Top box to the computer: Connect the AV Composite cable (not included) from the VCR/DVD player or Set-top box to the Composite Video/Audio adapter cable (included with your computer). Connect the adapter cable to the RGB (monitor) port on the back of the computer. [. . . ] A diskette is one example of a removable disk. resolution--A measure of the sharpness of the images that can be produced by a printer or displayed on a screen. For a printer, resolution is expressed in dots per inch (dpi). For a screen, it is expressed as the number of pixels available horizontally and vertically. [. . . ]