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Dell™ Inspiron™ 5100 and 5150

Owner’s Manual

Model PP07L and PP08L

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.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

For a complete list of abbreviations and acronyms, see the Tell Me How help file. To access

the help file, see page 80.

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OptiPlex, Latitude, Dell TrueMobile, and DellNet are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation; Intel, Pentium,and

Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation; Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation; EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation; Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG,

Inc. and is used by Dell Computer Corporation under license.

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other than its own.

Model PP07L and PP08L

July 2003 P/N M1708 Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

CAUTION: Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Air Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

EMC Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

When Using Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ergonomic Computing Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

When Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

1A Tour of Your Computer

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Left Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Right Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2Setting Up Your Computer

Adjusting Font and Icon Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adjusting Font Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adjusting Icon Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4Contents

Dell™ QuickSet Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Clicking the QuickSet Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Double-Clicking the QuickSet Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Right-Clicking the QuickSet Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting Up Your Internet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Modem and Internet Connection Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

E-Mail Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . . . . . . 36

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3Using a Battery

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Power Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Low-Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Removing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Installing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Battery and Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

If the battery is not charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

If battery life is short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

4Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad

Dell™ AccessDirect™ Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Reprogramming the Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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

Speaker Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

External Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Unexpected Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

5Using CDs, DVDs, and Other Multimedia

Using CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

CD or DVD Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

If you cannot play a CD, CD-RW, DVD, or DVD+RW . . . . . . 56

If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, DVD, or DVD+RW drive tray 56

If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . 56

If the CD-RW or DVD+RW drive stops writing . . . . . . . . . 56

6Contents

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

If you have a problem with integrated speakers . . . . . . . . . 57

If you have a problem with external speakers . . . . . . . . . . 57

Connecting a Television to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

S-Video Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Composite Video Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Enabling the Display Settings for a Television . . . . . . . . . 62

6Setting Up a Home and Office Network

Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Connecting to Wireless Local Area Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Determining Your Network Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Connecting to a Network in Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Finalizing Your Network Connection (Security Settings) . . . . 71

7Solving Problems

Finding Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Accessing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

If Your Computer Gets Wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . . 91

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . 92

Using System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . 93

Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Reinstalling Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

8Adding and Replacing Parts

Before You Add or Replace Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Modem and Mini PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Adding a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8Contents

Adding a Mini PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

CD or DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

9Appendix

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Viewing the System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Commonly Used Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

System and Battery Performance Optimization . . . . . . . . . 124

System Performance Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Optimizing Power Consumption and Battery Charge Time . . . 124

Variable Speed Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Dell Technical Support Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals . . . . . 125

Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . 126

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Regulatory Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

NOM Information (Mexico Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Limited Warranties and Return Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Limited Warranty for Dell-Branded Hardware Products (U.S. Only)

145

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . 148

Limited Warranty Terms for Dell-Branded Hardware Products (Canada

Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . 151

Dell Software and Peripherals (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . 152

1-Year End-User Manufacturer Guarantee (Latin America and the

Caribbean Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Intel®Warranty Statement for Pentium®and Celeron®Processors

Only

(U.S. and Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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