Lenovo 3000 J - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Conditions that require immediate action . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
General safety guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Additional safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Lithium battery notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Modem safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Laser compliance statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Power supply statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Additional help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Chapter 1. Arranging your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Setting up your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Turning on power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Finishing the software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Completing important tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Updating your operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing other operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Updating your antivirus software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Starting the Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Shutting down the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Recording your computer information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3. Recovering software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Creating and using product recovery discs . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Backup and recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using the rescue and recovery workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Solving recovery problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating and using rescue media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Creating and using a Recovery Repair diskette . . . . . . . . . . 16
Recovering or installing device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setting a rescue device in the startup sequence . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 4. Getting information, help, and service . . . . . . . . . 19
Getting information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Getting help and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Purchasing additional services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 5. Troubleshooting and diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 23
Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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