Dell 1700 - Personal Laser Printer B/W User manual

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DELL CONFIDENTIAL – PRELIMINARY 4/30/07 – FOR PROOF ONLY

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Dell™ Vostro™ 1700 Owner’s Manual

Model PP22X

Notes, Notices, and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data

and tells you how to avoid the problem.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury,

or death.

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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.

Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly

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Microsoft,Windows,Outlook, and Windows Vista are either trademarks or registered trademarks of

Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries; Bluetooth is a registered trademark

owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell under license.

Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming

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Model PP22X

May 2007 P/N TT565 Rev. A00

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Contents

1 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Determining Your Computer’s Configuration . . . . . . 21

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

3 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 36

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 37

Microsoft®Windows®Easy Transfer . . . . . . . 37

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 40

4 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Switching the Video Image From Your Computer Display to a

Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . 41

5 Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad . . . . 43

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . 44

Dell™ QuickSet Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . 44

Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

6 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Dell™ QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Microsoft®Windows®Battery Meter . . . . . . . 49

Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . 50

Using the Sleep Power State . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Copying CD and DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using Blank CD or DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Connecting Your Computer to a TV or Audio Device . . 61

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

S-Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . 65

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . 67

Composite Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 69

Component Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . 71

Component Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 74

Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 77

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8 Using ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 81

9 Using the Memory Card Reader . . . . . . . 83

Memory Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing a Memory Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 84

10 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 85

Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem Cable . . 85

Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

What You Need to Establish a WLAN Connection .86

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 87

Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless Router and a

Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide Area Network) .90

What You Need to Establish a Mobile Broadband Network

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Checking Your Dell™ Mobile Broadband Card . . . 91

Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 92

Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile Broadband Card 93

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Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 93

11 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . 96

12 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Dell™ Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Dell Support Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Optical drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . 106

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 115

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A program stops responding or crashes repeatedly 116

A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft®Windows®

operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area Network [WWAN]) 119

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 123

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 123

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 125

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 126

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 127

Troubleshooting Software and Hardware Problems . . 130

Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . 131

Using Dell Factory Image Restore . . . . . . . . . 131

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 133

13 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 135

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . 136

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Removing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Removing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Replacing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Removing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . 146

Replacing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . 147

Removing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . 148

Replacing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . 150

Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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Wireless Mini-Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Removing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Replacing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing a Mobile Broadband or WWAN Card . . 156

Replacing a Mobile Broadband or WWAN Card . . 159

Removing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Replacing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Flash Cache Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing the FCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Replacing the FCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Internal Card With Bluetooth®Wireless Technology . 163

Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Removing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 164

Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 165

14 Dell™ QuickSet Features . . . . . . . . . . . 167

15 Traveling With Your Computer . . . . . . . . 169

Identifying Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Packing the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Travel Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Traveling by Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

16 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Obtaining Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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