Drive care ...........................................................................................................................................

36

IDE drive light .....................................................................................................................................

37

Hard drive ...........................................................................................................................................

38

Optical drives ......................................................................................................................................

41

Inserting an optical disc .....................................................................................................

42

Removing an optical disc (with power) ..............................................................................

43

Removing an optical disc (without power) .........................................................................

44

Avoiding the Sleep state or Hibernation ............................................................................

45

5 Multimedia

 

Multimedia hardware ..........................................................................................................................

46

Using the optical drive .......................................................................................................

46

Identifying the installed optical drive .................................................................

46

Inserting an optical disc .....................................................................................

47

Removing an optical disc (with power) ..............................................................

48

Removing an optical disc (without power) .........................................................

49

Using media activity hotkeys .............................................................................................

50

Using the audio features ....................................................................................................

51

Using the audio-in (microphone) jack ................................................................

51

Using the audio-out (headphone) jack ..............................................................

51

Adjusting the volume .........................................................................................

52

Using the video features ....................................................................................................

53

Using the external monitor port .........................................................................

53

Using the S-Video-out jack ................................................................................

54

Multimedia software ...........................................................................................................................

55

Identifying preinstalled multimedia software ......................................................................

55

Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only) .........................................

55

Using DVDPlay ..................................................................................................................

55

Using multimedia software .................................................................................................

56

Preventing playback disruptions ........................................................................................

57

Protecting the CD or DVD write process ...........................................................................

57

Changing DVD region settings ..........................................................................................

58

Observing the copyright warning .......................................................................................

58

6 External Devices

 

Using a USB device ...........................................................................................................................

59

Connecting a USB device ..................................................................................................

59

Stopping a USB device ......................................................................................................

60

Required USB software .....................................................................................................

60

7 Memory Modules

 

Adding or replacing memory modules ................................................................................................

61

Index ...................................................................................................................................................................

64

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