Dell Inspiron 3500 - Manual (Page 161)

The touch pad driver and associated utilities allow you to customize the operation of your touch pad and cursor features. To install the touch pad
driver, perform the following steps:
1. Double-click the My Computer icon, and then double-click the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM icon.
2. Double-click the Touchpad folder.
3. Double-click the setup.exe icon.
4. At the Welcome screen, click Next>.
5. At the Close Destination Location screen, click Next>.
6. Click Location, then click Next>.
7. At the Start Copying Files window, click Next>.
The touch pad files are copied to your hard-disk drive.
8. At the Setup Complete window, click Yes, I want to restart my computer now, and then click Finish to restart the computer.
Installing the DVD/MPEG-2 PC Card, Device Driver, and DVD-to- Go™ Software
To install the Dell DVD/MPEG-2 PC Card and the required device driver for your computer, perform the following steps:
1. Insert the DVD-to-Go CD into the DVD-ROM drive.
2. Insert the MPEG-2 PC Card into the lower of the two connectors in your computer
’s PC Card slot.
The first time you insert the MPEG-2 PC Card, the New Hardware Found dialog box appears with the following statement:
DELL-DVD Player
Windows has found new hardware and is locating the software for it.
Then another dialog box appears with the following statement:
Add New Hardware Wizard
This Wizard searches for new drivers for:
Dell-DVD Player
3. Click Next.
A dialog box appears with the following question:
What do you want Windows to do?
4. Click Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended).
5. Click Next.
A dialog box appears with the following statement:
Windows will search for new drivers in its driver database on your hard drive, and in any of the
following selected locations.
6. Click (uncheck) the boxes next to Floppy disk drives and Specify location.
7. Click (check) the box next to CD-ROM drive.
8. Click Next.
A dialog box appears with the following statement:
Windows will search for the driver.
Windows driver file search for the device:
DELL-DVD_Player.
9. Click Next.
The Copying Files dialog box appears with the following message:
The file ‘InstAgnt.exe’ on (Unknown) cannot be found.
10. Click Browse.
11. Click the arrow next to the Drives menu.
12. Select the drive letter (for example, E or G) with the CD icon.
13. Click OK.
14. Click OK again.
The computer automatically installs the DVD device driver onto the hard-disk drive.
After the DVD device driver is installed, your computer emits two beeps notifying you that the MPEG-2 PC Card is recognized.
15. Click Finish.
After the driver software installation has been completed, an installation application for the DVD-to-Go Player software launches
automatically.
During the installation, you may need to wait for 6 to 8 seconds between some of the installation windows while the software is being
installed from the CD. Do not try to rush through the installation as you may skip over some important steps. Provide all requested
information. For example, be sure to select the appropriate region code.
Creating the Save-to-Disk Suspend File
If you are installing a new hard-disk drive or if you are rebuilding a hard-disk drive with corrupted software and you want to be able to use the save-
to-disk suspend mode, you must use the phdisk.exe utility on the Dell Inspiron 3500 System Software CD to create a save-to-disk suspend file.
When save-to-disk suspend mode is activated, all system data is stored in this file.
NOTE: Only the lower PC Card slot connector is designed for use with ZV-capable PC Cards.
NOTE: Your only chance to select the region code occurs during the installation procedure. You cannot change it later. Each region,
as defined in the installation software, encodes DVDs differently. You cannot switch back and forth between differently coded
regional DVDs. After you choose a region, your PC Card can only play DVDs designed to be sold in that region.