Lenovo 4217 Laptop User Manual


 
Introduction
This ThinkStation User Guide contains the following information:
Chapter 1 “Important safety information” on page 1
provides information about where to nd safety
information for this product.
Chapter 2 “Arranging your workspace” on page 3 provides information about setting up your computer for
comfort and the impact of light sources, air circulation, and electrical outlets.
Chapter 3 “Setting up your computer” on page 5 provides information about setting up your computer,
and also installing the operating system and other software.
Chapter 4 “Software overview” on page 15 provides information on the operating system and software
applications that might be preloaded on your computer.
Chapter 5 “Using the Setup Utility” on page 17 provides instructions on how to view and change the
conguration settings of your computer.
Chapter 7 “Updating system programs” on page 25 provides information about updating POST/BIOS and
how to recover from a POST/BIOS update failure.
Chapter 8 “Troubleshooting and diagnostics” on page 27
provides information about basic troubleshooting
and diagnostic tools for your computer.
Chapter 9 “Recovery information” on page 33 provides instructions on how to use the ThinkVantage
®
Rescue and Recovery
®
program to create product recovery discs, back up data, recover software, and
restore the entire contents of your hard disk drive to a previously saved state.
Chapter 10 “Getting information, help, and service” on page 39 provides information about the wide
variety of helpful resources available from Lenovo
®
.
Appendix A “Manual modem commands” on page 43 provides commands for manually programming
your modem.
Appendix B “System memory speed” on page 49 provides information on the supported system memory
speed for your computer model.
Appendix C “Notices” on page 51 provides notices and trademark information.
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