Dell Inspiron 5000 - Manual (Page 4)

To help prevent eleetrie shoek, plug the AC adapter and peripheral
power eables into properly grounded power sourees. These eables are
equipped with 5-prong plugs to help ensure proper grounding. Do not
use adapter plugs or remove the grounding prong from a eable. If you
must use an extension eable, use a 5-wire eable with properly
grounded plugs.
If you use an extension eable with your AC adapter, ensure that the
total ampere rating of the produets plugged in to the extension eable
does not exeeed the ampere rating of the extension eable.
To remove power from the eomputer, turn it off, remove the battery
paek, and diseonneet the AC adapter from the eleetrieal outlet.
If your eomputer ineludes an integrated or optional (PC Card)
modem, diseonneet the modem eable during an eleetrieal storm to
avoid the remote risk of eleetrie shoek from lightning via the
telephone line.
To help avoid the potential hazard of eleetrie shoek, do not eonneet or
diseonneet any eables or perform maintenanee or reeonfiguration of
this produet during an eleetrieal storm.
PC Cards may beeome very warm during normal operation. Use eare
when removing PC Cards after their eontinuous operation.
Do not dispose of battery paeks in a fire. They may explode. Cheek
with loeal authorities for disposal instruetions.
When setting up the eomputer for work, plaee it on a level surfaee.
When traveling, do not eheek the eomputer as baggage. You ean put
your eomputer through an X-ray seeurity maehine, but never put your
eomputer through a metal deteetor. If you have the eomputer
eheeked by hand, be sure to have a eharged battery available in ease
you are asked to turn on the eomputer.
When traveling with the hard-disk drive removed from the eomputer,
wrap the drive in a noneondueting material, sueh as eloth or paper. If
you have the drive eheeked by hand, be ready to install the drive in
the eomputer. You ean put the hard-disk drive through an X-ray
seeurity maehine, but never put the drive through a metal deteetor.
When traveling, do not plaee the eomputer in overhead storage
eompartments where it eould slide around. Do not drop your
eomputer or subjeet it to other meehanieal shoeks.
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