Dell Inspiron 8500 Manuale utente

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Dell™ Inspiron™ 8500

Owner’s Manual

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 (see page 104).

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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.

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

Dell Precision, Dimension, OptiPlex, and Latitude 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; Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Bluetooth

SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell Computer Corporation under license; EMC is a registered trademark

of EMC Corporation.

Othertrademarksandtradenamesmaybeusedinthisdocumenttorefertoeithertheentitiesclaiming

themarksandnamesortheirproducts.DellComputerCorporationdisclaimsanyproprietaryinterest

in trademarks and trade names other than its own.

Model PP02X

July 2003 P/N 3Y007 Rev. A01

Contents 3

Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

California Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Right View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Bottom View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2Setting Up Your Computer

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

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

4Contents

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

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

About the Module Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Checking the Charge on the Second Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Removing and Installing Devices While the Computer

Is Turned Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Removing and Installing Devices While the

Computer Is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

If the Device Screw Is Not Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

If the Device Screw Is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

4Using the Keyboard and Touchpad

Numeric Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

System Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

CD or DVD Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Display Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Radios (Including Wireless Networking and Bluetooth™) . . . . 63

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Speaker Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Microsoft®Windows®Logo Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Customizing the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Touch Pad or Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

External Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Unexpected Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

5Using CDs, DVDs, and Other Multimedia

Using CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CD or DVD problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

If you cannot play a CD, CD-RW, or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive tray . . . . . 71

If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . 71

6Contents

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

If you have a problem with integrated speakers . . . . . . . . . 71

If you have a problem with external speakers . . . . . . . . . . 71

Copying CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using Easy CD Creator Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using Blank CD-R Discs or Blank CD-RW Discs . . . . . . . . 73

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

How to Copy a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Connecting a Television to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

S-Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

S-Video and Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Composite Video and Standard Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Composite Video and Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Enabling the Display Settings for a Television . . . . . . . . . 84

Enabling S/PDIF Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6Setting Up a Home and Office Network

Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Connecting to Wireless Local Area Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Determining your Network Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Connecting to a Network in Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Finalizing your Network Connection (Security Settings) . . . . 96

7Solving Problems

Finding Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Accessing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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Video and Display Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

If the display is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

If the display is difficult to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

If only part of the display is readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive . . . . . . . . . . . 108

If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

E-Mail Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

If Your Computer Gets Wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . 115

Using System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . 116

Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . 118

8Contents

Reinstalling Microsoft®Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Reinstalling Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

8Adding and Replacing Parts

Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adding a Mini PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Adding a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Replacing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

9Appendix

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Standard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Viewing the System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Commonly Used Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Dell Technical Support Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals . . . . . 149

Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . 150

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Regulatory Noticesour cccess the help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

NOM Information (Mexico Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Limited Warranties and Return Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Limited Warranty for Dell-Branded Hardware

Products (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . 174

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Limited Warranty Terms for Dell-Branded Hardware

Products (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

"Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . 178

Dell Software and Peripherals (Canada Only) . . . . . . . . . 178

1-Year End-User Manufacturer Guarantee

(Latin America and the Caribbean Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Intel®Warranty Statement for Pentium®and

Celeron®Processors Only (U.S. and Canada Only) . . . . . . . 181

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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