Document Outline

• Notebook Tour
  • Components
    • Top components
      • Keys
      • TouchPad
      • Buttons and switches
      • Lights
      • Display components
    • Front components
    • Rear components
    • Right-side components
    • Left-side components
    • Bottom components
    • Wireless antennae (select models only)
    • Additional hardware components
    • Labels
  • Specifications
    • Operating environment
    • Rated input power
• TouchPad and Keyboard
  • TouchPad
    • Using the TouchPad
    • Using an external mouse
    • Setting TouchPad preferences
  • Keyboard
    • Hotkeys
      • Hotkey quick reference
      • Hotkey procedures
      • Displaying and clearing system information (fn+esc)
      • Opening Help and Support (fn+f1)
      • Opening the Print Options window (fn+f2)
      • Opening a Web browser (fn+f3)
      • Switching the screen image (fn+f4)
      • Initiating Hibernation (fn+f5)
      • Initiating QuickLock (fn+f6)
      • Decreasing screen brightness (fn+f7)
      • Increasing screen brightness (fn+f8)
      • Playing, pausing or resuming an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f9)
      • Stopping an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f10)
      • Playing previous track or section of an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f11)
      • Playing next track or section of an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f12)
  • Keypads
    • Using the embedded numeric keypad
      • Enabling and disabling the embedded numeric keypad
      • Switching key functions on the embedded numeric keypad
    • Using an external numeric keypad
      • Enabling or disabling num lock mode as you work
• Power management
  • Setting power options
    • Using power-saving states
      • Initiating and exiting Sleep
      • Initiating and exiting Hibernation
    • Using the battery meter
    • Using power plans
      • Viewing the current power plan
      • Selecting a different power plan
      • Customizing power plans
    • Setting password protection on wakeup
  • Using battery power
    • Using Battery Health in Help and Support
    • Displaying the remaining battery charge
    • Inserting or removing the battery
    • Charging a battery
    • Managing low battery levels
      • Identifying low battery levels
      • Resolving a low battery level
        • Resolving a low battery level when external power is available
        • Resolving a low battery level when a charged battery is available
        • Resolving a low battery level when no power source is available
        • Resolving a low battery level when the computer cannot exit Hibernation
    • Calibrating a battery
      • Step 1: Fully charge the battery
      • Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep
      • Step 3: Discharge the battery
      • Step 4: Fully recharge the battery
      • Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep
    • Conserving battery power
    • Storing a battery
    • Disposing of a used battery
  • Using external AC power
    • Connecting the AC adapter
  • Shutting down the computer
• Drives
  • Drive care
  • IDE drive light
  • Hard drive
  • Optical drives
    • Inserting an optical disc
    • Removing an optical disc (with power)
    • Removing an optical disc (without power)
    • Avoiding the Sleep state or Hibernation
• Multimedia
  • Multimedia hardware
    • Using the optical drive
      • Identifying the installed optical drive
      • Inserting an optical disc
      • Removing an optical disc (with power)
      • Removing an optical disc (without power)
    • Using media activity hotkeys
    • Using the audio features
      • Using the audio-in (microphone) jack
      • Using the audio-out (headphone) jack
      • Adjusting the volume
    • Using the video features
      • Using the external monitor port
      • Using the S-Video-out jack
  • Multimedia software
    • Identifying preinstalled multimedia software
    • Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only)
    • Using DVDPlay
    • Using multimedia software
    • Preventing playback disruptions
    • Protecting the CD or DVD write process
    • Changing DVD region settings
    • Observing the copyright warning
• External Devices
  • Using a USB device
    • Connecting a USB device
    • Stopping a USB device
    • Required USB software
• Memory Modules
  • Adding or replacing memory modules
• Index