Dell Latitude UY691 User manual

Dell™ Latitude™ D830
User’s Guide
Model PP04X

Notes, Notices, and Cautions
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operating systems are not applicable.
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Model PP04X
September 2009 P/N UY691 Rev. A04

Contents 3
Contents
1 Finding Information
2 About Your Computer
Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
With the Operating System CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
Without the Operating System CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Windows Vista® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 Using a Battery
Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dell™ QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Microsoft®Windows®Power Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Charge Gauge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Power Management Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Standby Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hibernate Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4Contents
Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4 Using the Keyboard
Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Customizing the Touch Pad and Track Stick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Changing the Track Stick Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5 Using Multimedia
Playing CDs or DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Volume Control Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Volume Control Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6 Using the Display
Adjusting Brightness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching the Video Image From Your Computer Display to a Projector. . . . 43
Making Images and Text Look Bigger or Sharper on the Screen:
Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Windows Vista® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using an External Monitor Simultaneously as an Extension
of Your Computer Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Windows Vista® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using an External Monitor as Your Primary Display: Swapping
Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Windows Vista® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the Ambient Light Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
7 Setting Up and Using Networks
Connecting a Network or Broadband Modem Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting Up a Network in Microsoft Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting Up a Network in Microsoft Windows Vista® . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
What You Need to Establish a WLAN Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Checking Your Wireless Network Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless Router and a
Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Monitoring the Status of Wireless Network Connections
Through Dell™ QuickSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Mobile Broadband or Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN). . . . . . . . . 54
What You Need to Establish a Mobile Broadband
Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Checking Your Mobile Broadband Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile Broadband Network Card. . . . . . . 55
Managing Your Network Settings Through the
Dell QuickSet Location Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Dell™ Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Internet Connection Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8UsingCards
Card Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59