Dell Dimension 4600 - Manual (Page 4)

4 C o n t e n t s
Hyper-Threading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Booting to a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2 Solving Problems
Finding Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Finding Help Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Battery Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Floppy drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
CD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Problems writing to a CD-RW drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
General Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
A program crashes repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A program is designed for an earlier Windows
operating system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Other technical problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
General hardware problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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