Introduction
This User Guide contains the following information:
v Chapter 1, “Arranging your workspace,” on page 1 provides information about
setting up your computer for comfort and the impact of light sources, air
circulation, and electrical outlets.
v Chapter 2, “Setting up your computer,” on page 3 provides information about
setting up your computer and software and operating system installation.
v Chapter 3, “Installing options,” on page 11 provides information on the features
and options that are available for your computer.
v Chapter 4, “Recovering software,” on page 39 provides instructions on how to
use the Rescue and Recovery
™
program to create product recovery disks, back
up data, recover software, and restore the entire contents of your hard disk to a
previously saved state.
v Chapter 5, “Using the Setup Utility,” on page 47 provides instructions on how to
view and change the configuration settings of your computer.
v Chapter 6, “Updating system programs,” on page 51 provides information about
updating POST/BIOS and how to recover from a POST/BIOS update failure.
v Chapter 7, “Troubleshooting and diagnostics,” on page 53 provides information
about basic troubleshooting and diagnostic tools for your computer.
v Chapter 8, “Getting information, help, and service,” on page 61 provides
information about the wide variety of helpful resources available from Lenovo.
v Appendix A, “Manual modem commands,” on page 65 provides commands for
manually programming your modem.
v Appendix B, “Notices,” on page 73 provides notices and trademark information.
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