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Dell™ Inspiron™ 500m

Owner’s Manual

Model PP05L

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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 Glossary in the Tell Me

How help file. To access the help file, click the Start button on the Microsoft®

Windows®XP desktop, click Help and Support, clickUser and system guides, click

User’s guides, and then click Tell Me How.

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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.

Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Computer

Corporation is strictly forbidden.

Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, Inspiron, Dell TravelLite, Dell TrueMobile,

Dell Precision, Dimension, OptiPlex, DellNet, and Latitude are trademarks of Dell Computer

Corporation; Intel, Pentium, andCeleron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation; Microsoft

and Windowsare registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; Bluetooth is a trademark owned

byBluetoothSIG,Inc.,andisusedbyDellComputerCorporationunderlicense;EMCisaregistered

trademark of the EMC Corporation.

Othertrademarksandtradenamesmaybeusedinthisdocumenttorefertoeithertheentitiesclaiming

themarksandnamesortheirproducts.DellComputerCorporationdisclaimsanyproprietaryinterest

in trademarks and trade names other than its own.

Model PP05L

February 2003 P/N 3Y647 Rev. A00

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

2Setting Up Your Computer

Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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

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

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

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

Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Printer Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a Parallel Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting a USB Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting Up the Docking Device to Connect to a Network . . . . 41

Power Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Surge Protectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Line Conditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Uninterruptible Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

3Using Batteries and Module Bay Devices

Using a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Battery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Checking the Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Installing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Removing and Installing a Reserve Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Storing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

About the Module Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Checking the Charge on the Second Battery . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Removing and Installing Devices While the Computer

Is Turned Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Removing and Installing Devices While the

Computer Is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4Using the Keyboard and Touch Pad

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

CD or DVD Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Radios (Including Wireless Networking and the

Bluetooth™ Card) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Speaker Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

External Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Unexpected Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

5Using CDs, DVDs, and Other Multimedia

Using CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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CD and DVD Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

If you cannot play a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive tray . . . . . 68

If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . 69

If the CD-RW drive stops writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

If you have a problem with integrated speakers . . . . . . . . . 69

If you have a problem with external speakers . . . . . . . . . . 69

Copying CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using Easy CD Creator Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Blank CD-R Discs or Blank CD-RW Discs . . . . . . . . 71

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How to Copy a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Connecting a Television to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

S-Video Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Composite Video Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Enabling the Display Settings for a Television . . . . . . . . . 78

6Setting Up a Home and Office Network

Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

7Solving Problems

Finding Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Accessing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

If Your Computer Gets Wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . . 97

Using System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . 98

Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . 99

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Reinstalling Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Reinstalling Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

8Adding and Replacing Parts

Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Adding a Mini PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

9Appendix

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Standard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Viewing the System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Commonly Used Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Dell Technical Support Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals . . . . . 127

Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . 127

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Regulatory Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

NOM Information (Mexico Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Limited Warranties and Return Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Limited Warranty for the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. Only). . . . . . . . . . 150

Limited Warranty Terms for Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . 155

Dell Software and Peripherals (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . . 155

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One-Year End-User Manufacturer Guarantee

(Latin America and the Caribbean Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Intel®Warranty Statement for Pentium®and

Celeron®Processors Only (U.S. and Canada Only) . . . . . . . 158

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

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