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About This User’s Manual.......................................................................................................

iv

Notes for This Manual..............................................................................................................

iv

Safety Precautions.....................................................................................................................

v

Transportation Precautions....................................................................................

vi

Charging Your Batteries..........................................................................................

vii

Airplane Precautions................................................................................................

vii

Chapter 1:

Knowing the Parts

 

Top Side.....................................................................................................................................

1-2

Bottom Side.............................................................................................................................

1-5

Front Side..................................................................................................................................

1-6

Right Side..................................................................................................................................

1-7

Left Side.....................................................................................................................................

1-8

Keyboard Usage.....................................................................................................................

1-9

Special Function Keys............................................................................................

1-9

Touchpad Usage...................................................................................................................

1-11

Multi-finger gesture input (on selected models)......................................

1-11

Chapter 2:

Getting Started

 

Powering on your Eee PC....................................................................................................

2-2

First-time Startup...................................................................................................................

2-3

Desktop.....................................................................................................................................

2-4

ASUS EeePC Tray Utility........................................................................................................

2-5

Enabling and Disabling Devices........................................................................

2-5

Adjusting the display resolution.......................................................................

2-5

Network Connection............................................................................................................

2-6

Configuring a wireless network connection.................................................

2-6

Local Area Network................................................................................................

2-7

Browsing web pages............................................................................................

2-10

WLAN Setup FAQ (Windows XP)....................................................................................

2-11

Chapter 3:

Using the Eee PC

 

ASUS Update.

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3-2

Updating the BIOS through the Internet........................................................

3-2

Updating the BIOS through a BIOS file...........................................................

3-3

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