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Table of contents Notices ....................................................................................................................... ix Safety information ................................................................................................................... ix Trademarks .............................................................................................................................. x Hardware and software assistance ........................................................................................ x About this book ........................................................................................................ xi How this book is organized ........................................................................................................... xi Related information ....................................................................................................................... xii Part 1: Reference information .......................................................... 1 Chapter 1: First steps .............................................................................................. 3 Monitor setup and use ................................................................................................................... 3 Using the tilt/swivel stand ....................................................................................................... 3 Adjusting monitor controls .....................................................................................................4 Digital image controls ....................................................................................................... 7 Power saver feature ................................................................................................................. 8 Monitor settings ....................................................................................................................... 8 Setting up your monitor .......................................................................................................... 9 Selecting the Monitor Horizontal Frequency ............................................... 9 Selecting Monitor Settings ............................................................................................... 10 Performance tips ...................................................................................................................... 11 Using Rapid Resume Manager .....................................................................................................12 How Rapid Resume stores information ................................................................................. 12 Normal operation of Rapid Resume Manager ...................................................................... 13 Installing a printer driver ............................................................................................................... 14 Controlling the volume on multimedia systems ......................................................................... 15 Adjusting the speaker volume ................................................................................................ 15 Adjusting the headphone volume .......................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2: Input/Output device information ........................................................ 17 About sound cards ......................................................................................................................... 17 iii About television cards ................................................................................................................... 17 About Mwave cards ....................................................................................................................... 18 Changing the I/O address or disabling the joystick .............................................................. 18 Changing the I/O address ................................................................................................. 18 Changing jumper settings on the Mwave card ............................................................... 19 Connecting your modem to the telephone network ............................................................. 22 Operating your modem ...........................................................................................................22 Using the Auto Answer feature .............................................................................................. 23 Using the telephone with your modem ................................................................................. 24 Disabling Call Waiting ....................................................................................................... 24 How modems work ........................................................................................................................ 25 Modem connection process .................................................................................................... 25 Data modems ........................................................................................................................... 25 Connecting to other data modems .................................................................................. 26 Fax modems ............................................................................................................................. 27 Choosing fax software applications ................................................................................ 27 Modem commands ........................................................................................................................ 30 Modem return codes ...................................................................................................................... 33 S registers ....................................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting .................................................................................... 39 Problem solving steps ................................................................................................................... 39 Troubleshooting tables .................................................................................................................. 43 Error codes, descriptions, and corrective actions ....................................................................... 57 Chapter 4: Working with the Setup Utility .......................................................... 65 Using the Setup Utility ................................................................................................................... 65 Starting the Setup Utility ......................................................................................................... 65 Making changes with the Setup Utility .................................................................................. 66 The Setup Utility Main Menu ........................................................................................... 66 Working with Setup Utility screens ................................................................................. 67 Example of using the Setup Utility ......................................................................................... 68 Features of the Setup Utility .......................................................................................................... 70 System Information ................................................................................................................. 70 Video and Monitor ................................................................................................................... 70 Disk Drives ................................................................................................................................ 71 Input/Output Ports ..................................................................................................................