Dell Inspiron PP22L User manual

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Dell™ Inspiron™ 1521 Owner’s Manual

Model PP22L

Notes, Notices, and Cautions

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Model PP22L

September 2007 P/N RT722 Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

1 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Determining Your Computer’s Configuration . . . . . . 19

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 34

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 35

Windows Easy Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 38

4 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Switching the Video Image From Your Computer Display To a

Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . 39

5 Using the Keyboard and Touchpad . . . . . 41

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Microsoft® Windows® Logo Key Functions . . . 43

Dell™ QuickSet Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . 43

Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

Playing Media Using Dell Travel Remote . . . . . . . . 57

Copying CD and DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using Blank CD and DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . 59

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Connecting Your Computer to a TV or Audio Device . . 62

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

S-Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . 66

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . 68

Composite Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 70

Component Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . 72

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Component Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 75

Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 78

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 . . . . . . . . . . . 85

10 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 87

Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem Cable . . 87

Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

What You Need to Establish a WLAN Connection . 88

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 89

Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless Router and a

Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide Area Network) . 93

What You Need to Establish a Mobile Broadband Network

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . 94

Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 94

Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile Broadband Card 95

Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 96

11 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . 99

12 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Dell Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Dell Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Dell Support 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Dell PC Tune-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Dell PC CheckUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Dell Network Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

DellConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Optical drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . 111

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

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IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 120

A program stops responding or crashes repeatedly 120

A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft®Windows®

operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area Network [WWAN]) 124

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 127

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 128

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 130

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If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 131

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 132

Troubleshooting Software and Hardware Problems in the Windows

Vista®Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Restoring Your Microsoft®Windows Vista®Operating System 135

Using Windows Vista System Restore . . . . . . . 136

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 139

13 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 141

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . 142

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Removing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Replacing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Removing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Replacing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Removing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . . 150

Replacing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . 152

Removing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . . 153

Replacing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . 154

Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Wireless Mini Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Removing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Replacing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Removing a Mobile Broadband or WWAN Card . . 160

Replacing a WWAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Removing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Replacing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Internal Card With Bluetooth®Wireless Technology . 165

Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Replacing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Removing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 167

Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 167

14 Dell™ QuickSet Features . . . . . . . . . . . 169

15 Traveling With Your Computer . . . . . . . . 171

Identifying Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Packing the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Travel Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

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