Game Controllers, Audio CDs, Connections, Installation

*your PC user guide

•Burn slower: Record at a slower speed, which does not empty the buffer as fast as high- speed burning. This is especially important when copying many small files or copying a CD from a CD-ROM drive that is slower than the burner drive.

•Test first: while CD-Rs are relatively inexpensive, other media formats can be expensive. It’s a shame wasting them during unsuccessful burns. So before burning, have the software do a test burn.

•Test last: While this has nothing to do with buffer underrun, it’s a good way of avoiding unpleasant surprises, and it’s easy. When you’ve burned a disc, try to play it on the intended player.

Audio CDs:

When you place a music CD in the CD drive, the

Windows Media Player (WMP) will automatically run.

It looks like a normal CD player, with buttons for controlling the tracks you listen to.

You can:

•‘Play’, ‘pause’ and ‘stop’ a CD from playing and use the skip buttons to move between tracks or parts of tracks.

•Play many other types of multimedia files including MP3, WAV and MID audio files and AVI, ASF and MPEG movie files.

•Organize all the multimedia files on your PC for easier storage and retrieval.

•Listen to radio stations from all over the world and find other multimedia content quickly and easily, when you’re connected to the Internet.

•Transfer multimedia files to your hard drive, and also to many of the latest portables and handheld PCs.

*your PC user guide

Game Controllers

Connections:

USB game controllers plug into the USB port on the connector panel at the back of the PC. If you have both a game pad and joystick, have only one of these devices plugged in at any one time.

Game controllers will work only with software that is designed to use these devices. With some software (especially games) you may be asked to select the keyboard, game pad or joystick before you can use it.

Installation:

These instructions refer to the game controllers supplied with certain PCs. If you have purchased a different game controller you should follow the instructions that were supplied with it.

Plug the game controller into USB port 2. We recommend that you always use this port for the game controller. A message box saying that new hardware has been detected will appear on-screen.

The game controller is now ready for use.

Testing and calibrating:

Follow the installation procedures for the game controller before installing any games.

Some games software will automatically respond to the controller being used.

However, you may need to:

•Choose the ‘Configure Game Controllers’.

•Choose the controller you wish to use from the game’s Option Menu.

Once the game controller is installed check that it is working.

• Go to Control Panel.

•Double-click on ‘Printers and Other Hardware’.

•Double-click ‘Game Controllers’.

•Click on the controller you want to check and click

‘Properties’.

From the ‘Test’ tab check your joystick is working properly by testing the movement and all the button functions.

To calibrate the controller for optimum performance:

Click the ‘Settings’ tab.

When you have followed the instructions for the tests, click on ‘OK’ and ‘OK’ again to return to the Control Panel.