Introduction
This User Guide contains the following information:
v Chapter 1, “Important safety information,” on page 1 provides information about
where to find safety information for this product.
v 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.
v 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.
v Chapter 4, “Software overview,” on page 17 provides information about the
software for this computer.
v Chapter 5, “Using the Setup Utility,” on page 19 provides instructions on how to
view and change the configuration settings of your computer.
v Chapter 7, “Updating system programs,” on page 29 provides information about
updating POST/BIOS and how to recover from a POST/BIOS update failure.
v Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting and diagnostics,” on page 31 provides information
about basic troubleshooting and diagnostic tools for your computer.
v Chapter 9, “Recovering software,” on page 37 provides instructions on how to
use the ThinkVantage
®
Rescue and Recovery
®
program to create product
recovery disks, back up data, recover software, and restore the entire contents of
your hard disk drive to a previously saved state.
v Chapter 10, “Getting information, help, and service,” on page 45 provides
information about the wide variety of helpful resources available from Lenovo.
v Appendix A, “Manual modem commands,” on page 49 provides commands for
manually programming your modem.
v Appendix B, “Notices,” on page 57 provides notices and trademark information.
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