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Gateway Solo™ 2100 Multimedia Notebook
Contents
Legal notices .............................................................. 4
Specifications .............................................................. 6
If you don’t read anything else . . . Read this! ....................................... 8
System Overview .......................................... 9
Outside the System ......................................................... 10
Inside the System .......................................................... 12
Getting Started .......................................... 1 3
Connecting AC Power ...................................................... 14
Powering up the System ..................................................... 15
Power button setting .................................................... 15
LCD Display .............................................................. 17
Keyboard ................................................................ 18
Key combinations/hot keys ................................................ 18
EZ Pad Pointing Device ...................................................... 22
Customizing the EZ Pad .................................................. 23
Windows 95 ............................................................. 24
Start button ........................................................... 25
Task bar .............................................................. 25
Windows 95 manual ..................................................... 25
On-line documentation ................................................... 25
Ordering manuals ....................................................... 25
Modularity/Connectivity ................................... 2 7
Batteries ................................................................ 28
Charging/discharging the battery pack ........................................ 28
Battery status .......................................................... 29
Removing the battery pack ................................................ 30
Modular Option Bay ........................................................ 31
Modular CD-ROM, floppy disk drive, and battery pack ............................. 31
Swapping modules ...................................................... 32
External Floppy Drive Adapter ................................................. 33
Hard Disk Drive ........................................................... 34
Memory ................................................................ 35
PCMCIA Cards ............................................................ 37
Connections ............................................................. 38
IR port ............................................................... 38
Gateway 2000 Solo™ mini-docking station ..................................... 39
