User manual TOSHIBA SATELLITE M100 (PSMA1)

[. . . ] Attn: Documentation Manager Computer Systems Division PO Box 10580 Santa Ana, CA 92711-9860 4000CDT/XCDT Series User's Guide For Models: 4030CDT, 4060CDT, 4080XCDT, 4085XCDT Satellite' Satellite Models: 4030CDT, 4060CDT, 4080XCDT and 4085XCDT FCC Notice "Declaration of Conformity Information" This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential instal lation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, it may cause harmful inter ference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures: J* Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ] To insert a CD in the CD-ROM drive follow the instructions in "Using compact discs" on page 42. The computer automatically detects the compact disc in the CD-ROM drive, opens Microsoft CD Player and begins to play the disc. You can control various CD Player functions by clicking the buttons on the control panel. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Exploring Your Options Exploring audio features Next track Skip forward Skip backwards Previous track CD Player screen CD Player works much like an ordinary compact disc player: pointing and clicking on the various buttons allows you to play, pause, fast forward, repeat or stop the playback. To eject a CD, press the Eject button on the CD-ROM drive. Using external speakers or headphones Your computer is equipped with a sound system and internal ste reo speakers. Instead of using the internal speakers, you can connect headphones or a pair of external stereo speakers to the computer. TECHNICAL NOTE: You must use self-powered speakers with the computer. To connect external speakers or headphones: 1 Locate the headphone jack on the computer. Refer to "Right side" on page 4. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Exploring audiofeatures Exploring Your Options 2 Using any necessary adapters, connect the headphone or exter nal speaker cable into the headphone jack. TECHNICAL NOTE: The headphone jack requires a 16-ohm stereo mini-plug. 3 To adjust the volume, do one of the following: If you connect external speakers, use the volume control dial on the speakers. If you connect headphones, use the computer's volume control dial located on the right side of the display panel. Making a recording You can save recordings as . WAV files by connecting a micro phone or external sound source to the microphone jack. To make a recording: 1 Connect a microphone or external sound source to the micro phone jack. 2 Click Start, point to Programs, Accessories, then click Entertainment. 3 Click Sound Recorder. 4 Click the Record button. HINT: The Record button is the red circle at the bottom-right comer of the Sound Recorder window. 5 Speak normally into the microphone or turn on the external sound source. 6 When you've finished recording, click the stop button. The Audio Recorder window displays the new sound file as a waveform. 7 To hear what you just recorded, click the play button. Parti; Getting To Know Your Computer Emulating a full-size keyboard Exploring Your Options 8 To save the file, open the File menu and click Save. Adjusting recording quality The better the quality of the recording, the more disk space the sound file requires. To set recording quality: 1 Open Sound Recorder, if necessary click Start, point to Pro grams, Accessories, Entertainment, then click Sound Recorder. 2 3 In the Sound Recorder window, click Edit, then Audio Prop erties. In the Audio Properties dialog box, adjust the Recording Vol ume, Preferred device, and Preferred quality according to your needs. 4 Click OK. Your new settings take effect the next time you record. Emulating a full-size keyboard Although the Satellite computer's keyboard has fewer keys, it is compatible with a standard keyboard. Using the Fn key in combi nation with one of the specially marked function keys allows you to emulate a full-size keyboard. For more information on using Fn key combinations, see "Hot Keys" on page 167. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Determining the COM Port Exploring Your Options Determining the COM Port The modem is connected to one of the computer's COM (commu nications) ports. 4 Click OK. Changing or removing existing key assignments 1 Start Fn-esse. 2 In the Fn-esse keyboard, click the key you want to change using the secondary AccuPoint button. Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box. 3 Complete one of the following steps: To change the key assignment, click Direct or Popup and continue as if you were creating a new assignment. To remove the key assignment, click Clear. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Hardware Setup Toshiba Utilities Hardware Setup Hardware Setup lets you view general system settings and specify the pointing device, display, CPU cache, boot priority, keyboard, USB, PC card, password, device configuration and parallel/printer for your computer. To set the IRQ, I/O Address and DMA channel for communication ports use the Windows 95/98 Device Manager. NOTE: If the supervisor password is set and you log onto the computer with the user password, you cannot access the Hardware Setup program. Accessing Hardware Setup To run Hardware Setup, click Start, point to Settings, click Con trol Panel, and double-click Toshiba Hardware Setup. Hardware Setup window Hardware Setup window Parti: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities Hardware Setup The Hardware Setup window contains the following tabs: Pointing Devices The Pointing Devices tab allows you specify whether you want to use the AccuPoint, a PS/2 mouse or both pointing devices with your computer. Display The Display tab lets you customize your computer's display settings for either the internal LCD screen or for an external monitor. NOTE: When starting the computer in Resume mode, the last configuration is remembered, if data does not appear on the displayyou are using after starting in Resume mode, press Fn + F5. CPU Cache Use the CPU Cache tab to enable or disable the CPU cache, Level 2 cache and to set the Write Policy. Boot Priority The Boot Priority tab allows you to set the priority for booting the computer from either the diskette drive, hard drive, or CDROM drive. Keyboard Use the Keyboard tab to set key combinations on an external keyboard to emulate the Fn key on the computer's internal key board. Setting an Fn key equivalent lets you use "Hot Keys" by pressing the set combination instead of the Fn key. USB Use the USB tab to enable or disable USB Legacy Emulation. If your operating system does not support USB, you can still use a USB mouse and keyboard by setting the USB Legacy item in TSETUP to Enabled. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities TSETUP PC Card The PC Card tab allows you to set the PC Card Controller mode. General The General tab displays the BIOS version, memory capacity and HDD mode. The General window cannot be changed by the Hardware Setup program. Password The Password tab allows you to set or reset the user password for power on and instant security. Device Config The Device Config tab lets you to set the device configuration. Parallel/Printer tab The Parallel/Printer tab lets you set the Printer Port Type. TSETUP TSETUP is a MS-DOS based program that provides similar func tions as Hardware Setup and Toshiba Power Extensions. The TSETUP. EXE file is located in the Windows subdirectory on your hard drive. To access TSETUP during system boot: 1 Turn off the computer. 2 3 Hold down the ESC key and turn on the computer. When you receive the following message: "Check system. Then press [Fl] key, " press F1. TSETUP displays the System Setup screen. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities Toshiba Power Extensions To access TSETUP from Windows: 1 Click the Start menu button, then click Shut Down. Windows displays the Shut Down Windows dialog box. 2 3 Select Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode?and click After the computer reboots in MS-DOS, type TSETUP and press Enter. [. . . ] When you turn the com puter on again, you automatically return to the point in your work at which you left off. The Suspend feature in Windows 95 or Win dows NT and the Stand by feature of Windows 98 are similar, but Resume Mode is available whatever operating system you are using. RJ-J1: A modular connector used on most U. S. The RJ-11 connector is a 6-wire connec tor. RJ-45: A modular connector used on many network cards. The RJ-45 is an 8-wire connector. root directory: The directory on a disk at the "top" of the directory structure. [. . . ]