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Preface: Dell Latitude CPt C-Series/CPi R-Series User's Guide
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Preface: Dell™ Latitude™ CPt C-Series/CPi R-Series User's
Guide
About This Guide • Warranty and Return Policy Information
• Other Documents You May Need • Notational Conventions • Typographical Conventions
About This Guide
This guide is intended for anyone who uses the Dell Latitude CPt
C-Series/CPi R-Series portable computers. It can be used by both first-time and
experienced computer users who want to learn about the features of the computer. This
guide also provides basic troubleshooting procedures and instructions for using the Dell
Diagnostics to test your computer and its components. The sections are summarized as
follows:
- "Introduction" — overview of
the computer features and available upgrades
- "Customizing Your Computer" —
instructions on accessing the System Setup program, power management software, and the
Suspend-to-Disk utility, all of which allow you to change system settings affecting your
computer's power conservation features
- "Removing and Replacing Parts" —
instructions on how to remove and install hard-disk drives and memory modules
- "Troubleshooting Your Computer"
— initial checks and procedures that can be used to solve basic computer problems,
general guidelines on analyzing software problems, messages, and beep codes
- "Getting Help" — help tools
Dell provides to assist you if you have a problem with the computer and explains how and
when to call Dell for technical assistance
Warranty and
Return Policy Information
Dell Computer Corporation ("Dell") manufactures its
hardware products from parts and components that are new or equivalent to new in
accordance with industry-standard practices.
For information about the Dell warranty and return policy, see the System
Information guide that came with your computer.
Other Documents You May
Need
Besides this User's Guide, the following documentation is
included with your computer:
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NOTE: Documentation updates are
sometimes included with your computer to describe changes to your computer or software.
Always read these updates before consulting any other documentation because the
updates contain the latest information. |
- The Dell-Installed Microsoft Windows 95 Setup Guide, which
describes how to set up the Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system on your Dell
computer.
- The Dell-Installed Microsoft Windows 98 Setup Guide, which
describes how to set up the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system on your Dell computer.
- The Dell-Installed Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Setup Guide, which
describes how to set up the Microsoft Windows NT® operating system on your Dell computer.
- Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT operating system
documentation is included if you ordered your operating system from Dell. This
documentation describes how to configure and use your operating system software.
- Documentation is included with any options you purchase separately
from your computer. This documentation includes information that you need to configure and
install these options in your Dell computer.
- "Readme" files may be installed on your hard-disk drive to
provide last-minute updates about technical changes to your computer or advanced technical
reference material intended for experienced users or technicians.
Notational Conventions
The following subsections list notational conventions used in this
document.
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
Throughout this guide, blocks of text may be accompanied by an icon
and printed in bold type or in italic type. These blocks are notes, cautions, and
warnings, and they are used as follows:
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NOTE: A NOTE indicates important
information that helps you make better use of your computer. |
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CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either
potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. |
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WARNING: A WARNING indicates the
potential for bodily harm and tells you how to avoid the problem. |
Typographical Conventions
The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates
typographical conventions used as visual cues for specific elements of text throughout
this document:
- Interface components are window titles, button and icon names,
menu names and selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display.
They are presented in bold.
Example: Click OK.
- Keycaps, the labeling that appears on the keys on a keyboard,
are enclosed in angle brackets.
Example: <Enter>
- Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed
simultaneously (unless otherwise indicated) to perform a single function.
Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>
- Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference
purposes only and are not intended to be typed at that particular point in the discussion.
Example: "Use the setup command to . . . ."
In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are intended
to be typed as part of an instruction.
Example: "Type format to format the diskette in drive
A."
- Filenames and directory names are presented in
lowercase bold.
Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows
- Syntax lines consist of a command and all its possible
parameters. Commands are displayed in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which
you substitute a value) are displayed in lowercase italics; constant parameters are
displayed in lowercase bold. The brackets indicate items that are optional.
Example: del [drive:] [[path]filename]
[/p]
- Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more
of the command's possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New font.
Example: del c:\myfile.doc
- Screen text is text that appears on the screen of your display
or external monitor. It can be a system message, for example, or it can be text that you
are instructed to type as part of a command (referred to as a command line). Screen
text is presented in the Courier New font.
Example: The following message appears on your screen:
No boot device available
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