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| The Optical Drive | The Windows auto insertion | This is normal. However, you may disable this feature. (See |
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| the Status Indicator | checking to see if a disc is | mation) |
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| You cannot access | You tried to write to a write | Eject the floppy disk and set it to write enable. |
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| Security is set to protect | Verify your password and security settings. |
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| You cannot access | The setup utility is incor- | Revise BIOS settings to set both drives correctly. (See BIOS |
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| your hard drive. | rectly set for your internal or | Setup Utility on page 27 for more information) |
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| optional second hard drive. |
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| The wrong drive designator | Verify drive designator used by application is in use by the |
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| Security is set so your oper- | Verify your password and security settings. |
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| The | The notebook has gone into | Push the Suspend/Resume/Power On button. |
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| Your application has locked | Try to use your integrated pointing device to restart your |
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| out your keyboard. | system. If this fails, turn your notebook off by pressing the |
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| the system has been off at least 10 seconds, turn it back on. |
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| The characters that | NumLk is set in the BIOS. | Go to the BIOS and make sure that NumLk is disabled. (See |
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| You have installed an | Your external device is not |
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| mouse, and it does not |
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| set up with the correct soft- | and activate the proper driver. |
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| You have connected | Your operating system soft- | Check your device and operating system documentation |
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| or a mouse and it | correct software driver for |
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| seems to be locking up | that device. |
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