User manual TOSHIBA SATELLITE 2610 2650

[. . . ] 2610/2650 Series Portable Personal Computer User's Manual User's Manual i Copyright © 1999 by Toshiba Corporation. Under the copyright laws, this manual cannot be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of Toshiba. No patent liability is assumed, with respect to the use of the information contained herein. Toshiba Satellite 2610/2650 Series Portable Personal Computer User's Manual First edition September 1999 Disclaimer This manual has been validated and reviewed for accuracy. [. . . ] Refer also to the sections Turning on the power and Turning off the power in Chapter 3, Getting Started. Windows utilities In Windows 98, you can set any of the modes above in Windows Power Management Properties and in the Power Saver Utility. Refer to Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security, for details on each mode. Hotkeys You can use hotkeys Fn + F3 to set the power-up modes. See Chapter 5, Keyboard, for details. Panel power off You can set up your computer (Windows 98 only) so that power turns off automatically when you close the display panel. When you open the panel, power turns on in Standby mode, but not in Hibernation or boot modes. If the panel power off function is enabled and you use Stand by in the Windows Shut down menu , do not close the display until the Stand by or Hibernation function is completed. Refer to Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security, for an explanation of how to enable this feature. User's Manual Power and Power-Up Modes 6-13 System Auto Off This feature turns the system off automatically if it is not used for a set duration. Refer to Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security, for an explanation of how to set the duration. Auto power on This feature lets you set a time for the system to turn on automatically. Use Scheduled Tasks in Windows 98. 6-14 Power and Power-Up Modes User's Manual Chapter 7 Toshiba Utilities and Drivers Toshiba utilities and drivers are preinstalled on your hard disk. This chapter describes the utilities and drivers and provides references to the relevant chapter describing each one. List of utilities and drivers The following utilities are preinstalled on your hard disk. Hardware Setup (system hardware configuration program) (See Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security. ) Power Saver Utility (power management program) (See Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security. ) TSETUP. EXE (system configuration program in an MS-DOS environment) (See Chapter 8, Setup and Password Security. ) TDIAGS. EXE (diagnostic program in an MS-DOS environment) (See Chapter 10, Troubleshooting. ) Display Driver for Windows (enhances the performance of Windows 98) (Explained in this chapter. ) Sound Driver for Windows (Explained in this chapter. ) Modem driver (Refer to separate document. ) Toshiba Services (Explained in this chapter. ) DVD video player (Interface for playing DVDs) (Provided only with computers with a preinstalled DVD-ROM drive) (Explained in this chapter. ) Display Driver for Windows The display driver is designed to accelerate drawing performance. The computer's display driver uses the built-in acceleration features to give you enhanced performance on Windows, and they support Super VGA mode, which enhances the colour and resolution of graphics. Display Driver for Windows is preinstalled. User's Manual Toshiba Utilities and Drivers 7-1 Sound Driver for Windows The sound driver is designed specifically for digital reproduction of sound. They support the following: Recording/Playback application Wave files MIDI files DirectSound Sound Blaster compatibility Recording/Playback application A sound recorder application lets you easily record from a variety of sources including microphone, CD player, wave files (*. wav) and MIDI devices. Wave files The drivers support digital wave files (*. wav) for sound play back and recording (full duplex). The quality of wave recordings can be set to CD, radio or telephone. MIDI files The drivers support recording and playback of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files. MIDI is an interface between a musical instrument and digital recorder. The MIDI format uses sequencer software to assign a digital value to a musical tone, which can be interpreted as a variety of instruments. The device or software interpreting a tone could sound like either a piano or a violin, for example. A MIDI application can be accessed through the Multimedia icon in the Windows Control Panel. DirectSound DirectSound is a Microsoft Corp. sound recording and playback standard that is derived from DirectX®. Sound applications use DirectSound's Application Programming Interface for the following functions: 1. Sound capture The sound drivers and DirectX6. x combined provide support for DirectSound. Refer to the Microsoft Internet site for details. Sound Blaster compatibility The sound board is compatible with Sound Blaster, so it can play sound from MS-DOS-based game software. 7-2 Toshiba Utilities and Drivers User's Manual Toshiba Services The Toshiba Services utility for Windows 98 lets you enable or disable pop up windows for power settings and buttons that control the CD player. [. . . ] terminal: A typewriter-like keyboard and CRT display screen connected to the computer for data input/output. A logic circuit design that uses switching transistors for gates and storage. U USB: The Universal Serial Bus is a way to connect up to 127 devices through one connector. A new development in 1997, this offers significantly improved ease of use and reliability than earlier expansion methods. V VGA: Video Graphics Array is an industry standard video adaptor that lets you run any popular software. volatile memory: Random access memory (RAM) that stores information as long as power is supplied to the computer. W Warm dock/undock: Connecting or disconnecting a device to or from the computer while the computer is suspended. [. . . ]