Dell Inspiron GU051 Bedienungsanleitung

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Dell™ Inspiron™ 1721 Owner’s Manual

Model PP22X

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Model PP22X

September 2007 P/N GU051 Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

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

1 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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

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

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

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2 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

4Contents

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

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

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

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

3 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

4 Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad . . . . 41

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

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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

Microsoft® Windows® Logo Key Functions . . . 42

Dell™ QuickSet Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . 42

Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Contents 5

5 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Dell QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Microsoft®Windows®Battery Meter . . . . . . . 47

Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . 49

Using the Sleep Power State . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Playing Media Using Dell Travel Remote . . . . . . . . 55

Copying CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using Blank CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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

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

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6Contents

Connecting Your Computer to a TV or

Audio Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

S-Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . 64

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . 66

Composite Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 68

Component Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . 70

Component Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 72

Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 75

7 Using ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 79

8 Using the Memory Card Reader . . . . . . . 81

Memory Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing a Memory Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 82

9 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 83

Connecting a Network or Broadband

Modem Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Contents 7

Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

What You Need to Establish a

WLAN Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 85

Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless

Router and a Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . 86

Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide

Area Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

What You Need to Establish a Mobile

Broadband Network Connection . . . . . . . . . 89

Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . 90

Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 90

Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile

roadband Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 92

10 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

If Your Computer is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . 94

11 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Dell Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Dell Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Dell Support 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

DellConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Network Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8Contents

PC TuneUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

PC CheckUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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

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

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . 107

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

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

IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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

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

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

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 116

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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

Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area

Network [WWAN]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Contents 9

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 124

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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

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

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

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 126

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 127

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

What is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 128

Troubleshooting Software and Hardware Problems

in the Windows Vista™ Operating System . . . . . . . 130

Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Using Windows Vista System Restore . . . . . . . 132

12 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 141

10 Contents

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Replacing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Removing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Replacing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Removing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . . 147

Replacing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . 148

Removing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . . 149

Replacing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . 151

Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Wireless Mini Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Removing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Replacing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Removing a Mobile Broadband or

WWAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Replacing a WWAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Removing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Replacing a WPAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Internal Card With Bluetooth®Wireless

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Replacing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

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

Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 164

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