Dell LATITUDE D630 PP24L User manual

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Dell™ Latitude™ D630/D630c
User’s Guide
Model PP24L

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Model PP24L
September 2009 P/N HN566 Rev. A04

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Contents
1 Finding Information
2 About Your Computer
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Back View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Bottom View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 Transferring Information to a New Computer
Microsoft®Windows®XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard With the
Operating System Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard Without the
Operating System Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Microsoft Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Easy Transfer Cable for Windows Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4 Using a Battery
Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dell™ QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Microsoft®Windows®Power Meter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Conserving Battery Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Power Management Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Standby and Sleep Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Hibernate Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Accessing Power Options Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Battery Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5 Using the Keyboard
Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
System Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Microsoft® Windows® Logo Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Customizing the Touch Pad and Track Stick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing the Track Stick Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6 Using the Display
Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using the Ambient Light Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Switching the Video Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Dual Independent Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Swapping Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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7 Setting Up and Using Networks
Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Setting Up a Network in the Microsoft®Windows®XP Operating System . . . 52
Setting Up a Network in the Microsoft Windows Vista®Operating System. . . 52
Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
What You Need to Establish a WLAN Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless Router and a
Broadband Modem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide Area Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
What You Need to Establish a Mobile Broadband Network Connection. . 56
Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Enabling/Disabling the Dell™ Mobile Broadband Card . . . . . . . . . . 58
Managing Your Network Settings Through the Dell QuickSet
Location Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Microsoft®Windows®Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
8 Using Multimedia
Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Copying Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
How to Copy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using Blank Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Microsoft® Windows® XP Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Microsoft Windows Vista® Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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9 Using Cards
Card Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
PC Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Smart Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Extended Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installing a PC Card or ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
PC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Removing a Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
10 Securing Your Computer
Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Smart Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
About Smart Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installing a Smart Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
About Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Using a Primary (or System) Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Using an Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using a Hard Drive Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Enabling the TPM Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Security Management Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Activating the Security Management Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using the Security Management Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Computer Tracking Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Cleaning Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Computer, Keyboard, and Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
11 Troubleshooting
Diagnostic Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Diagnostic Light Codes During POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Dell™ Technical Update Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
When to Use the Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Starting the Dell Diagnostics from the Drivers and Utilities Media . . . . 85
Dell Diagnostics Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Dell Support Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Accessing the Dell Support Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Clicking the Dell Support Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Double-Clicking the Dell Support Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Media drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, DVD, or DVD+RW drive tray . . . . . 88
If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The computer does not start up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
A program stops responding or crashes repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . 96
A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft®Windows®
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Memory Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Power Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Ensuring Sufficient Power for Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Docking Power Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Scanner Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
12 Intel®Active Management Technology
13 System Setup Program
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Viewing the System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
System Setup Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Commonly Used Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Changing the Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Changing Printer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Changing COM Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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14 Reinstalling Software
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
What Is a Driver?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Using the Hardware Troubleshooter Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Microsoft Windows XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Microsoft Windows Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Using Microsoft® Windows® System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
15 Adding and Replacing Parts
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Internal Card With Bluetooth®Wireless Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Mobile Broadband Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Media Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Removing Media Bay Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
FCM (Flash Cache Module) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

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16 Dell™ QuickSet
17 Traveling With Your Computer
Identifying Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Packing the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Travel Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Traveling by Air. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
18 Specifications
19 Getting Help
Obtaining Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Technical Support and Customer Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
DellConnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Online Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
AutoTech Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Automated Order-Status Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Problems With Your Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Returning Items for Warranty Repair or Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Before You Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
20 Appendix
FCC Notice (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
FCC Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Macrovision Product Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167