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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