User's Manual

vi Quick Reference
Contents
The computer screen is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2
Software is functioning abnormally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3
The computer is turned on but not responding . . . . . 3–4
The computer is unusually warm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–4
An external device is not working. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
The home wireless network connection is not working . .
3–5
Contacting Customer Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
4 Software backup and recovery
Backing up your information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2
When to back up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2
Back up suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2
Using system restore points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3
When to create restore points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3
Create a system restore point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3
Restore to a previous date and time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4
Creating recovery discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4
Reinstalling software programs and drivers. . . . . . . . . . . 4–5
Reinstalling preinstalled programs or drivers . . . . . . 4–6
Reinstalling programs from discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6
Performing a recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7
Recovering from the recovery discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7
Recovering from the partition on the hard drive . . . . 4–7
Deleting the recovery partition on the hard drive . . . . . . 4–8
Updating reinstalled software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9
A Using the optical drive
Inserting an optical disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1
Removing an optical disc (with power) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2
Removing an optical disc (without power) . . . . . . . . . . . A–2
B Specifications
Operating environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–1