HP 5/xx Series 4 User manual

User’s Guide

HP Vectra VL

5/xx Series 4

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User’s Guide

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Welcome to Your HP Vectra PC

Congratulations on the purchase of your new Hewlett-Packard desktop

PC. Your high-performance PC provides:

•a PentiumTM processor in a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for

easy processor upgrades

•an integrated level-two cache of 256 KB for high performance

•a main memory of 8 MB or 16 MB, upgradeable to 128 MB

•an Ultra VGA PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) video

controller with 1 MB of video memory upgradeable to 2 MB. Some

models have a Matrox MGA Millennium video adapter board with

2MB as standard, upgradeable to 4MB or 8MB.

•an integrated Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)

controller on the PCI bus supporting Fast IDE and Standard IDE

•three front-access drive shelves (one can be used as an internal

shelf)

•one internal drive shelf

•four free slots for accessory boards:

❒one 32-bit PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) slot

❒two 16-bit ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) slots

❒one combination ISA or PCI slot

•one parallel port, and two serial ports

•preloaded HP utilities to ease system configuration tasks

•BIOS stored in Flash ROM

•BIOS support for ISA “Plug and Play”

•pre-installed Operating system and Software.

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Your HP Vectra has other important attributes:

•DMI compliant

•designed for Windows®95

•Vectra Ergonomic Power Solution—Windows 95 soft power-down

using the mouse, and keyboard power-on.

•Energy Star compliant power management.

The PC range described in this manual has a power saving capability

which complies with the Environment Protection Agency’s (EPA) 30

watt maximum power consumption in sleep mode, with the

exception of those models which are fully loaded multimedia PCs.

The fully loaded multimedia PCs also have energy saving capabilities,

but use slightly more than the maximum 30 watt limit in power

saving mode, required for the Energy Star label approval.

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Contents

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1 Setting Up Your PC

Unpacking Your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Connecting the Mouse, Keyboard, and Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Connecting a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Connecting the Power Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Starting the PC for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Creating Master Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Using Your PC

Starting and Stopping Your PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The HP Vectra Keyboard for Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

HP Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Accessing HP User Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Advanced Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Personalizing Your Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Desktop Management Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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3 How to Install Accessories In Your PC

Supported HP Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Removing the Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Replacing the Cover after Installing Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Moving and Replacing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Replacing the Power Supply after Installing Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Main Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Installing a Video Memory Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Installing Accessory Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Configuring Accessory Boards with Plug and Play (Windows 3.11) . . . 31

Configuring non-Plug and Play ISA Accessory Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Installing the Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Installing Mass Storage Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Installing a Flexible Disk Drive or a CD-ROM Drive

in the Middle Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Installing an IDE Hard Disk Drive in the Rear Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Installing a 3.5-inch Disk Drive in the Bottom Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Installing a 5.25-inch Drive in the Bottom Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configuring the Device or Devices you have installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Installing an Upgrade Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Installing the Security Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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4 The HP Setup Program

Using the HP Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Starting the Setup Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Understanding the SETUP Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Setting Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Setting Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

After Installing an IDE Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

5 Troubleshooting Your PC

Solving Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

If Your PC Does Not Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

If Your Display is Blank and There Are No Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 67

If you are Unable to Change any Values in Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

If a POST Error Message is Displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

To Clear the CMOS Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Power-On-Self-Test Errors that May Prevent Your PC From Starting . .69

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If Your PC Has a Hardware Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

If Your Display Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

If Your Display is Blurred or Unreadable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

If Your Keyboard or Mouse Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

If Your Printer Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

If the Flexible Disk Drive Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

If the Hard Disk Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

If the Hard Disk Activity Light Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

If the CD-ROM Drive Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

If an Accessory Board Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

If Your PC Has a Software Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

If You Have Forgotten Your Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

If Your Application Software Does Not Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

If Power Management Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

If the Date and Time are Incorrect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Changing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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