6Contents
8 Setting Up a Home and Office Network
Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Network Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Connecting to a Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Determining Your Network Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Connecting to a Wireless Network in Microsoft® Windows® XP. . . . . 69
Configuring Security Settings (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
9 Solving Problems
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
If the display is difficult to read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
If only part of the display is readable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Scanner Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Hard Drive Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
External Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Power Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Unexpected Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Touch Pad or Mouse Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Printer Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Network Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
General Program Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
A program stops responding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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