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LifeBook N Series User's Guide Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s Fujitsu LifeBook® N Series Table of Contents 1 PREFACE Preface About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Fujitsu Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Keyboard Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Numeric Keypad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Windows Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Cursor Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Function Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Volume Control Controlling the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR LIFEBOOK NOTEBOOK Overview Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 TouchPad Pointing Device Clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Double-Clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 TouchPad Control Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Flexible Bay Devices Removing and Installing Modular Devices . . . . . 21 Locating the Controls and Connectors Top and Front Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Front Panel Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Left-Side Panel Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Right-Side Panel Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Top/Back Panel Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bottom Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 LifeBook Application Panel Launching Applications with the LifeBook Application Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 GETTING STARTED Power Sources Connecting the AC Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Status/Power Indicators Power Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Battery Charging Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Battery Status Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Floppy Drive Access Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Hard Drive Access Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Media Player Access Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 NumLk Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CapsLock Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ScrLk Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Display Panel Opening the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Adjusting Display Panel Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Closing the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Starting Your LifeBook Notebook Power On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 LifeBook N Series User's Guide BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Booting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Windows Product Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Registering Your LifeBook Notebook . . . . . . . . . 31 Installing Click Me!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Memory Upgrade Module Installing a Memory Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Removing a Memory Upgrade Module . . . . . . . 46 Checking the Computer Recognition of New Memory Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Power Management Power and Suspend/Resume Button . . . . . . . . . 32 Suspend Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hibernation (Save-to-disk) Feature. . . . . . . . . . . 33 Display Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Hard Disk Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Restarting the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Power Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Device Ports Communications Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 LAN Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 IEEE 1394 Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 Ports . . . . . . . . . . 47 Microphone Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 S-Video Out Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Optical Digital Audio-Out Connector. . . . . . . . . 47 Headphone Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 External Monitor Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 4 USER-INSTALLABLE FEATURES Lithium ion Battery Recharging the Batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 5 TROUBLESHOOTING Troubleshooting Identifying the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Specific Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Troubleshooting Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Power On Self Test Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Modem Result Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Restoring Your Pre-installed Software . . . . . . . . 62 Drive Image Special Edition (DISE) . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Internal Floppy Disk Drive Loading a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ejecting a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Preparing a Disk for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Optical Drive Optical Drive Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Loading Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Removing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Emergency DVD/CD-ROM Tray Release . . . . . . 41 Using the Optical Player Software . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using DolbyTM Headphone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the Optical Drive on Battery Power . . . . . 42 Auto Insert Notification Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 6 CARE AND MAINTENANCE Care and Maintenance LifeBook Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Floppy Disks and Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 DVDs and CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 PC Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hard Disk Drive Formatting the Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 PC Cards Installing PC Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Removing PC Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s 7 SPECIFICATIONS Specifications Configuration Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Microprocessor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Mass Storage Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Device Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Popular Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Pre-Installed Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Application Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 APPENDIX Integrated Wireless LAN User's Guide FCC Regulatory Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Before Using the Wireless LAN For better communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Stopping transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Starting Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Connection using Windows XP Flow of operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Preparation for wireless LAN connection . . . . . . 93 Connection to the network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Troubleshooting Troubleshooting the Wireless LAN . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Glossary Wireless LAN Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 8 GLOSSARY Glossary Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 IP address information IP Address Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Wireless LAN Specifications Wireless LAN Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 LifeBook N Series User's Guide 1 Preface 1 LifeBook N Series User's Guide 2 Preface Preface ABOUT THIS GUIDE The LifeBook® N Series notebook from Fujitsu PC Corporation is a completely self-contained unit with an active-matrix color LCD display. It has a powerful interface that enables it to support a variety of optional features. This manual explains how to operate your LifeBook notebook's hardware and built-in system software. Your notebook is compatible with the IBM® PC AT. It comes with Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional pre-installed. Conventions Used in the Guide Keyboard keys appear in brackets. Example: [Fn], [F1], [ESC], [ENTER] and [CTRL]. Pages with additional information about a specific topic are cross-referenced within the text. Example: (See page xx.) On screen buttons or menu items appear in bold Example: Click OK to restart your LifeBook notebook. DOS commands you enter appear in Courier type. Example: Shut down the computer? E-mail: 8fujitsu@fujitsupc.com Web site: http://www.fujitsupc.com Before you place the call, you should have the following information ready so that the customer support representative can provide you with the fastest possible solution: Product name Product configuration number Product serial number Purchase date Conditions under which the problem occurred Any error messages that have occurred Hardware configur ...