Dell M1330 - XPS - Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz User manual

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Dell™ XPS™ M1330 Owner’s Manual

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Model PP25L
June 2007 P/N RW491 Rev. A00

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Contents
1 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Setting Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . 20
Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . 21
Windows Easy Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 24
3 About Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Determining Your Computer’s Configuration . . . . . . 25
Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4 Using the Keyboard and Touchpad . . . . . 37
Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Microsoft® Windows® Logo Key Functions . . . 38
Dell™ QuickSet Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . 38
Adjusting Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5 Using the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adjusting Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching the Video Image From Your Computer
Display To a Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting Display Resolution and Refresh Rate . . . . . . 41

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6 Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Dell QuickSet Battery Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Microsoft®Windows®Battery Meter . . . . . . . 45
Charge Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Conserving Battery Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring Power Management Settings . . . . . 46
Using the Sleep Power State . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
7 Using Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
How to Copy a CD and DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Blank CD and DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using Dell MediaDirect™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Connecting Your Computer to a TV or Audio
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Enabling the Display Settings for a TV . . . . . . . 58
8 Using ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
ExpressCard Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing an ExpressCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Removing an ExpressCard or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 61
9 Using the Memory Card Reader . . . . . . . 63
Memory Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Removing a Memory Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 64
10 Setting Up and Using Networks . . . . . . . 65
Connecting a Network or Broadband
Modem Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Setting Up a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
What You Need to Establish a WLAN
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Checking Your Wireless Network Card . . . . . . 66
Setting Up a New WLAN Using a Wireless
Router and a Broadband Modem . . . . . . . . . 67
Connecting to a WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Mobile Broadband (or Wireless Wide
Area Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
What You Need to Establish a Mobile
Broadband Network Connection . . . . . . . . . 70
Checking Your Dell Mobile Broadband Card . . . . 71
Connecting to a Mobile Broadband Network . . . 71
Enabling/Disabling the Dell Mobile
Broadband Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Dell Wi-Fi Catcher™ Network Locator . . . . . . . . . 73
11 Securing Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Security Cable Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
If Your Computer Is Lost or Stolen . . . . . . . . . . . 76
12 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Dell Technical Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Dell Support Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Optical drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . 86
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
ExpressCard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
External Keyboard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Unexpected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The computer does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Dell MediaDirect problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Mobile Broadband (Wireless Wide Area
Network [WWAN]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
No sound from integrated speakers . . . . . . . . 103
No sound from external speakers . . . . . . . . . 103
No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . 105
If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . 106
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 107
Troubleshooting Software and Hardware
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . 111
Using Dell PC Restore by Symantec . . . . . . . . 111
Using the Operating System Media . . . . . . . . 114
13 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 117
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . 118
Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Removing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Hinge Covers and Center Control Cover . . . . . . . . 122
Removing the Hinge Covers and Center
Control Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Replacing the Hinge Covers and Center
Control Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Removing the DIMM 1 Memory Module . . . . . . 127
Replacing the DIMM 1Memory Module . . . . . . 129
Removing the DIMM 2 Memory Module . . . . . . 130
Replacing the DIMM 2 Memory Module . . . . . . 132
Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Wireless Mini Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Removing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Replacing a WLAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Removing a Mobile Broadband or
WWAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Replacing a WWAN Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Flash Cache Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Removing the FCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Replacing the FCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Internal Card With Bluetooth®Wireless
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Replacing the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Removing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 144
Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . 144