Introduction
Your Personal Computer (PC) consists of a system unit, a monitor and the input
elements keyboard and mouse. The system unit normally contains one hard disk
drive and one floppy disk drive for storing data. You can also install additional
drives (e.g. CD-ROM drive, DAT drive) in the system unit. Depending on its
version, the system unit has one parallel interface and either one or two serial
interfaces.
To make it easier for you to set up the PC, the operating system, driver and
software utilities may have already be installed on the hard disk.
You can configure your PC in the easy-to-operate BIOS Setup.
Your PC is, of course, equipped with Plug&Play; it therefore recognizes and
automatically installs modules which support Plug&Play.
Your PC offers a range of security measures to prevent unauthorized persons from
accessing your data. The
QLOCK
program enables you to lock entry at your mouse
and keyboard. There are also security functions in the BIOS Setup, enabling you,
for example, to use passwords to protect access to your data.
The integrated power management ensures that your PC does not use more
energy than necessary. Depending on their settings, the monitor, the drives and
the processor can be switched to an energy-saving state. The entire PC can be
switched into an energy-saving state, if the PC supports the Save to Disk function.
Further information on this PC is provided:
– in the manual "Safety and ergonomics"
– in the Operating Manual for the monitor
– in the Technical Manual for the PC (describes installing and removing of
modules)
– in the Technical Manual for system board (describes system settings)
– in the MS-Windows
INFO
window (information on utilities and drivers)
– in the information files (
*.TXT
, *.
DOC, *.WRI, *.HLP
)
There are different variants of the system unit (for example, with main switch and
ON/OFF switch or with ON/OFF switch only, with three or five slots for modules).
These operating instructions are based on the variant with a main switch and five
slots for modules.
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Notational conventions
The meanings of the symbols and fonts used in this manual are as follows:
!
Pay particular attention to texts marked with this symbol. Failure to observe
this warning endangers your life, destroys the system, or may lead to loss of
data.
This symbol is followed by supplementary information, remarks and tips.
i
Texts which follow this symbol describe activities that must be performed in the
order shown.
This symbol means that you must enter a blank space at this point.
↵
This symbol means that you must press the Enter key.
Texts in this typeface
are screen outputs from the PC
.
Texts in this bold typeface
are the entries you make via the keyboard.
Texts in italics
indicate commands or menu items
.
"Quotation marks" indicate highlighted text and names of chapters.
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