Lenovo 6396 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Arranging your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Air circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 3. Setting up your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Connecting your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Turning on computer power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Finishing the software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Completing important tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Updating your operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing other operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Updating your antivirus software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Shutting down the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing external options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 4. Software overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Software provided with your Windows operating system . . . . . . . . . . 15
Software provided by Lenovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PC-Doctor for Windows, PC-Doctor for Windows PE . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adobe Acrobat Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 5. Using the Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Changing the language setting for the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Password considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Administrator or Supervisor Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Selecting or changing the boot device sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 6. Updating system programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Using system programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Updating (flashing) BIOS from a diskette or CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Changing settings using the utility diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Updating (flashing) BIOS from your operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 7. Troubleshooting and diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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