Note

If you or your dealer has made a major change to your system, such as adding a disk drive, the computer may take a few minutes to complete power-on diagnostics the first time you turn it on.

When the system has successfully completed its diagnostics, you see the following prompt:

Press <DEL> to start SETUP

Note

If your computer’s configuration does not match the information stored in the computer’s CMOS RAM (defined through the SETUP program), you see an error message and a prompt to press the m key. Press [ to continue. Then run the SETUP program to correct the information. (See Chapter 2 of the Setup Guide for instructions.)

If you do not want to run SETUP, ignore the prompt. After a few seconds, the computer either loads the operating system from the hard disk or the diskette in drive A or prompts you for the password (if you have set one). When you enter the correct password, the computer loads the operating system.

What happens next depends on how your computer is set up. If it is configured to automatically load a program (such as Microsoft Windows or a word processing program), you see the first menu or screen display of that program. If not, you may see the operating system prompt, such as C : \> or A>. See your application program manuals for further instructions.

1-4 Using Your Computer