Drive care ........................................................................................................................................... 36
IDE drive light ..................................................................................................................................... 37
Hard drive ........................................................................................................................................... 38
Optical drives ...................................................................................................................................... 41
Inserting an optical disc ..................................................................................................... 42
Removing an optical disc (with power) .............................................................................. 43
Removing an optical disc (without power) ......................................................................... 44
Avoiding the Sleep state or Hibernation ............................................................................ 45
5 Multimedia
Multimedia hardware .......................................................................................................................... 46
Using the optical drive ....................................................................................................... 46
Identifying the installed optical drive ................................................................. 46
Inserting an optical disc ..................................................................................... 47
Removing an optical disc (with power) .............................................................. 48
Removing an optical disc (without power) ......................................................... 49
Using media activity hotkeys ............................................................................................. 50
Using the audio features .................................................................................................... 51
Using the audio-in (microphone) jack ................................................................ 51
Using the audio-out (headphone) jack .............................................................. 51
Adjusting the volume ......................................................................................... 52
Using the video features .................................................................................................... 53
Using the external monitor port ......................................................................... 53
Using the S-Video-out jack ................................................................................ 54
Multimedia software ........................................................................................................................... 55
Identifying preinstalled multimedia software ...................................................................... 55
Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only) ......................................... 55
Using DVDPlay .................................................................................................................. 55
Using multimedia software ................................................................................................. 56
Preventing playback disruptions ........................................................................................ 57
Protecting the CD or DVD write process ........................................................................... 57
Changing DVD region settings .......................................................................................... 58
Observing the copyright warning ....................................................................................... 58
6 External Devices
Using a USB device ........................................................................................................................... 59
Connecting a USB device .................................................................................................. 59
Stopping a USB device ...................................................................................................... 60
Required USB software ..................................................................................................... 60
7 Memory Modules
Adding or replacing memory modules ................................................................................................ 61
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 64
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