Related service information, Service Web site

Related service information

This section provides information about the following:

v“Service Web site”

v“Using Recovery CD”

v“Passwords” on page 22

v“Power management” on page 24

Service Web site

When the latest maintenance diskette and the system

program service diskette are available, a notice will be posted on http://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/

To create Service Partition and install the preloaded system from Recovery CD, do the following;

1.Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive using FDISK or similar application.

2.Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required).

3.A menu will appear stating “Your computer originally included a Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the Product Recovery Program? (Y/N) [ ]”.

Note: If the hard-disk drive contains any partitions, you

will not receive this menu — go to step 1.

4.Enter “Y” and Service Partition will be created and loaded with D2D files.

Note: If you do not want to create Service Partition, press “N”, and then go to step 8.

5.Press “ENTER” at next window to continue.

v Service Partition will be created. System will automatically reboot during this precess.

vRecovery process will copy some files to the Service Partition, PKUNZIP others

vFollow prompts — you may be prompted to change CDs.

vSystem will reboot when complete, continue to step 6 to install preloaded system.

6.Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required)

7.If the hard-disk drive is blank, a menu will appear stating “Your computer originally included a

Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the Product Recovery Program? (Y/N) [ ]”.

vTo install Service Partition, go to step 4.

vTo preload hard-disk drive without installing Service Partition, press “N”.

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