Dell Vostro 1400 Bedienungsanleitung

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Dell™ Vostro™ 1400 Owner’s Manual

Model PP26L

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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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trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries; Bluetooth is a

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Model PP26L

September 2009 P/N WY106 Rev. A02

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Contents

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

2 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Determining Your Computer’s Configuration . . . . . . 23

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

3 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 38

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 39

Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Microsoft Windows Vista™ . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 46

4 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Switching the Video Image From Your Computer

Display To a Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . 47

Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Windows Vista™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

5 Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad . . . . 49

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . 50

Dell™ QuickSet Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . 51

Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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6 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Dell QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Microsoft®Windows®XP Battery Meter . . . . . 58

Microsoft®Windows®Vista Battery Meter . . . . 58

Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Power Management Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Standby and Sleep Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Hibernate Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . . . 60

Accessing Power Options Properties . . . . . . . 60

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

7 Using the Optional Camera . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Accessing the Camera’s Help File . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Manually Adjusting the Camera Settings . . . . . . . . 64

Creating a Picture or a Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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8 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Playing Media Using Dell Express Card

Remote Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Copying CD and DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Blank CD and DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . 72

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using Dell Media Experience™ and

Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

If the computer is turned on or in standby

or sleep mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

If the computer is turned off or in

hibernate mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Dell MediaDirect and Dell Media

Experience Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Connecting Your Computer to a TV or Audio Device . . 76

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

S-Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . 80

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . 82

Composite Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 84

Component Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . 86

Component Video and S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . 88

Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 91

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9 Using ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . . . 95

10 Using the Memory Card Reader . . . . . . . 97

Memory Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Installing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing a Memory Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 98

11 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 99

Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem

Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Setting Up a Network in the Microsoft®

Windows®XP Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Setting Up a Network in the Microsoft

Windows Vista™ Operating System . . . . . . . . . . 100

Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

What You Need to Establish a WLAN

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 101

Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless

Router and a Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . 102

Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide Area

Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

What You Need to Establish a Mobile

Broadband Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . 106

Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . 107

Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 107

Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile Broadband

Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 108

12 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

13 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Dell Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Dell Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Dell Support 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Dell PC Tune-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Dell PC Checkup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Dell Network Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

DellConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Optical drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . 125

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . 135

A program stops responding or crashes

repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

A program is designed for an earlier

Microsoft®Windows®operating system . . . . . 136

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area

Network [WWAN]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 143

No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 143

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Remote Control Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 146

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 147

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using the Drivers and Utilities Media . . . . . . . 150

Manually Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Troubleshooting Software and Hardware Problems . . 152

Restoring Your Microsoft®Windows Vista™

Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using Windows Vista System Restore . . . . . . . 153

Restoring the Computer to the Default Factory Configuration 155

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 156

Restoring Your Microsoft®Windows®XP

Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . 158

Starting System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Using Dell™ PC Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 161

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