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... before replacing a component. For more information, see "Preparing for Customer Care Information. Important If you cannot create a Drivers and Applications Recovery disc, Gateway may send you a set of your notebook. 2 Follow the guidelines under "Preventing static electricity discharge." 3 Turn off... For more information, see "Changing Batteries" in your Reference Guide for important safety, regulatory, and legal information. © 2007 Gateway, Inc. All rights reserved. Warning To avoid exposure to dangerous electrical voltages and moving parts, turn off your notebook. 4 Close...
... before replacing a component. For more information, see "Preparing for Customer Care Information. Important If you cannot create a Drivers and Applications Recovery disc, Gateway may send you a set of your notebook. 2 Follow the guidelines under "Preventing static electricity discharge." 3 Turn off... For more information, see "Changing Batteries" in your Reference Guide for important safety, regulatory, and legal information. © 2007 Gateway, Inc. All rights reserved. Warning To avoid exposure to dangerous electrical voltages and moving parts, turn off your notebook. 4 Close...
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...-screen instructions. Technical Support See the label on the bottom of the process you may be prompted to the hard drive bracket. Gateway and eMachines are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. All other countries. Screw Screw 13 Remove the bracket from CD or... DVD" appears, press any key on your Drivers and Applications Recovery disc. 23 Reconnect all peripheral devices and replace any key to your Reference Guide for Customer Care Information. As part...
...-screen instructions. Technical Support See the label on the bottom of the process you may be prompted to the hard drive bracket. Gateway and eMachines are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. All other countries. Screw Screw 13 Remove the bracket from CD or... DVD" appears, press any key on your Drivers and Applications Recovery disc. 23 Reconnect all peripheral devices and replace any key to your Reference Guide for Customer Care Information. As part...
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www.gateway.com Recalibrating the battery 68 Extending battery life 69 Maximizing battery performance 69 Conserving battery power 69 Using alternate power sources 70 Changing power modes ... the notebook screen 85 Maintaining the battery 86 Storing batteries 86 Cleaning CDs or DVDs 87 Recovering your system 87 Recovering pre-installed software and drivers 88 Using Microsoft System Restore 95 Recovering your system to its factory condition 98 Recovering your system using the Windows DVD 99 Chapter 8: Upgrading Your...
www.gateway.com Recalibrating the battery 68 Extending battery life 69 Maximizing battery performance 69 Conserving battery power 69 Using alternate power sources 70 Changing power modes ... the notebook screen 85 Maintaining the battery 86 Storing batteries 86 Cleaning CDs or DVDs 87 Recovering your system 87 Recovering pre-installed software and drivers 88 Using Microsoft System Restore 95 Recovering your system to its factory condition 98 Recovering your system using the Windows DVD 99 Chapter 8: Upgrading Your...
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CHAPTER 6: Traveling with Your Notebook • Consult your insurance company and credit card company to learn about emergency travel assistance if your notebook is lost or damaged. • Take your recovery discs in case you need to install an additional driver or software. Tip You can create a Drivers and Applications Recovery disc using the Gateway Recovery Center. 82
CHAPTER 6: Traveling with Your Notebook • Consult your insurance company and credit card company to learn about emergency travel assistance if your notebook is lost or damaged. • Take your recovery discs in case you need to install an additional driver or software. Tip You can create a Drivers and Applications Recovery disc using the Gateway Recovery Center. 82
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..., using it has a full charge. Caution When the battery is in the technical support pages at www.gateway.com. Caution To prepare your notebook for software and device driver recovery" on AC power, the battery constantly charges, even though it with an electrical outlet, the automatic... battery charger no longer keeps the battery charged. This reduces the life of software and driver recovery discs as soon as possible. Recovering your notebook while using a product made especially for the purpose. For instructions, see "Preparing...
..., using it has a full charge. Caution When the battery is in the technical support pages at www.gateway.com. Caution To prepare your notebook for software and device driver recovery" on AC power, the battery constantly charges, even though it with an electrical outlet, the automatic... battery charger no longer keeps the battery charged. This reduces the life of software and driver recovery discs as soon as possible. Recovering your notebook while using a product made especially for the purpose. For instructions, see "Preparing...
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... not help, then the problem may be solved by recovering the software and device drivers that were pre-installed at the factory, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using Gateway Recovery Center. 88 To recover software and drivers that software's installation instructions. CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook • If only one or two items...
... not help, then the problem may be solved by recovering the software and device drivers that were pre-installed at the factory, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using Gateway Recovery Center. 88 To recover software and drivers that software's installation instructions. CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook • If only one or two items...
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...to perform this is the case, you should create a set of discs for recovering pre-installed software and drivers: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, Gateway Recovery Center, then click Gateway Recovery Center. However, if you ever re-install Windows from your pre-installed software and device...have the opportunity. If this procedure.) To create discs for recovering your hard drive. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. 2 Click Applications and drivers external media, then click Next. www.gateway.com Preparing for any eventuality and create a set of recovery discs while you like to do...
...to perform this is the case, you should create a set of discs for recovering pre-installed software and drivers: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, Gateway Recovery Center, then click Gateway Recovery Center. However, if you ever re-install Windows from your pre-installed software and device...have the opportunity. If this procedure.) To create discs for recovering your hard drive. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. 2 Click Applications and drivers external media, then click Next. www.gateway.com Preparing for any eventuality and create a set of recovery discs while you like to do...
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... discs and store them in the upper-right corner to create a full set , Recovery23 for . Important Use a permanent marker to label each disc "Software and Driver Recovery," along with a short description of recovery discs. 5 If you do not have enough discs, then click Next. Label the discs as you are recording...
... discs and store them in the upper-right corner to create a full set , Recovery23 for . Important Use a permanent marker to label each disc "Software and Driver Recovery," along with a short description of recovery discs. 5 If you do not have enough discs, then click Next. Label the discs as you are recording...
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... as an option, you have created. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. www.gateway.com Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using software and driver recovery discs you must recover your software and drivers using Gateway Recovery Center To recover specific drivers and software: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, Gateway Recovery Center, then click Gateway Recovery Center. For instructions, see "Recovering...
... as an option, you have created. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. www.gateway.com Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using software and driver recovery discs you must recover your software and drivers using Gateway Recovery Center To recover specific drivers and software: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, Gateway Recovery Center, then click Gateway Recovery Center. For instructions, see "Recovering...
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OR To recover device drivers that was pre-installed, click Programs, then click Application recovery. - CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 2 To recover software that were pre-installed, click Hardware, then click Device driver recovery. 3 Click the software or driver you want to recover, then click Next. 92
OR To recover device drivers that was pre-installed, click Programs, then click Application recovery. - CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 2 To recover software that were pre-installed, click Hardware, then click Device driver recovery. 3 Click the software or driver you want to recover, then click Next. 92
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...of recovery discs, each disc contains a unique set of software and drivers. To recover software and drivers using recovery discs If you need to recover, try another disc. If an AutoPlay dialog box does not appear and Gateway Recovery Center does not start, open Computer and run the file ...Grc_Vista.exe on the disc. www.gateway.com Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using recovery discs: 1 Insert a software and driver recovery disc into the CD or DVD drive. If...
...of recovery discs, each disc contains a unique set of software and drivers. To recover software and drivers using recovery discs If you need to recover, try another disc. If an AutoPlay dialog box does not appear and Gateway Recovery Center does not start, open Computer and run the file ...Grc_Vista.exe on the disc. www.gateway.com Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using recovery discs: 1 Insert a software and driver recovery disc into the CD or DVD drive. If...
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OR To recover pre-installed device drivers, click Device driver recovery, then click the type of driver you have a multiple-disc set of recovery discs, close Gateway Recovery Center and try another disc. 94 CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 2 To recover pre-installed software, click Application recovery, then click the software you want to recover. 3 Click Next. 4 If the software or driver is not shown on the list and you want to recover. -
OR To recover pre-installed device drivers, click Device driver recovery, then click the type of driver you have a multiple-disc set of recovery discs, close Gateway Recovery Center and try another disc. 94 CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 2 To recover pre-installed software, click Application recovery, then click the software you want to recover. 3 Click Next. 4 If the software or driver is not shown on the list and you want to recover. -
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You can return to one of hard-to-resolve software problems, you install software or device drivers. www.gateway.com Using Microsoft System Restore Microsoft System Restore periodically takes "snapshots" of your system running again. Type windows system restore in the Search Help box, ...
You can return to one of hard-to-resolve software problems, you install software or device drivers. www.gateway.com Using Microsoft System Restore Microsoft System Restore periodically takes "snapshots" of your system running again. Type windows system restore in the Search Help box, ...
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...the user account's password (if any pre-installed software and device drivers. b While the notebook is called a factory recovery. This process is starting up now. b Click Recovery, then click Next. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. If Windows starts to load instead, restart the...Your Notebook Recovering your system to its factory condition. To delete everything on your keyboard to select Repair Your Computer, then press ENTER. Gateway System Recovery starts, and the System Recovery Options dialog box opens. 4 Select a language and keyboard layout, then click Next. 5 ...
...the user account's password (if any pre-installed software and device drivers. b While the notebook is called a factory recovery. This process is starting up now. b Click Recovery, then click Next. The Gateway Recovery Center opens. If Windows starts to load instead, restart the...Your Notebook Recovering your system to its factory condition. To delete everything on your keyboard to select Repair Your Computer, then press ENTER. Gateway System Recovery starts, and the System Recovery Options dialog box opens. 4 Select a language and keyboard layout, then click Next. 5 ...
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...be automatically backed up to c:\backup. - To completely re-install Windows: 1 If you can find your notebook's pre-installed software and device drivers. A list of the system recovery. To perform a full factory recovery without data backup, click Full factory recovery, then click Next. The... sure that was not pre-installed on your hard drive is complete window opens. 10 Click Finish, then click Restart. OR - www.gateway.com 8 To perform a recovery with data backup (recommended), click Recovery with automatic data backup, then click Next. Important Before your keyboard...
...be automatically backed up to c:\backup. - To completely re-install Windows: 1 If you can find your notebook's pre-installed software and device drivers. A list of the system recovery. To perform a full factory recovery without data backup, click Full factory recovery, then click Next. The... sure that was not pre-installed on your hard drive is complete window opens. 10 Click Finish, then click Restart. OR - www.gateway.com 8 To perform a recovery with data backup (recommended), click Recovery with automatic data backup, then click Next. Important Before your keyboard...
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For instructions, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using recovery discs" on -screen instructions. 5 After Windows is completely re-installed, use the software and driver recovery discs you created to recover your notebook's pre-installed software and device drivers. CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 4 Press the arrow keys to select the drive containing the Windows DVD, then press ENTER and follow the on page 93. 100
For instructions, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers using recovery discs" on -screen instructions. 5 After Windows is completely re-installed, use the software and driver recovery discs you created to recover your notebook's pre-installed software and device drivers. CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook 4 Press the arrow keys to select the drive containing the Windows DVD, then press ENTER and follow the on page 93. 100
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... the notebook and remove any Express cards. 107 For more hard drive capacity, you would like more information, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers" on page 88. 2 Back up files" in your online User Guide. 3 Follow the guidelines under "Preventing static electricity discharge" on page 102...notebook. 5 Disconnect the AC adapter, modem cable, and network cable. 6 Disconnect all peripheral devices connected to the new hard drive. www.gateway.com Replacing the hard drive kit Tools You need a small Phillips screwdriver and the Windows Vista DVD to replace the hard drive kit. ...
... the notebook and remove any Express cards. 107 For more hard drive capacity, you would like more information, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers" on page 88. 2 Back up files" in your online User Guide. 3 Follow the guidelines under "Preventing static electricity discharge" on page 102...notebook. 5 Disconnect the AC adapter, modem cable, and network cable. 6 Disconnect all peripheral devices connected to the new hard drive. www.gateway.com Replacing the hard drive kit Tools You need a small Phillips screwdriver and the Windows Vista DVD to replace the hard drive kit. ...
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As part of the process you may be prompted to boot from CD or DVD" appears, press any Express cards. 111 www.gateway.com 17 Slide the new hard drive kit into your notebook, then replace the screws that secure the hard drive kit to the notebook. 18 ... DVD, close the DVD drive, then restart your keyboard and follow the on your notebook. 22 When the prompt "Press any key to insert your Drivers and Applications Recovery disc. 23 Reconnect all peripheral devices and replace any key on -screen instructions.
As part of the process you may be prompted to boot from CD or DVD" appears, press any Express cards. 111 www.gateway.com 17 Slide the new hard drive kit into your notebook, then replace the screws that secure the hard drive kit to the notebook. 18 ... DVD, close the DVD drive, then restart your keyboard and follow the on your notebook. 22 When the prompt "Press any key to insert your Drivers and Applications Recovery disc. 23 Reconnect all peripheral devices and replace any key on -screen instructions.
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... a DVD player program has been installed on page 45. • Make sure that they are using your volume control, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers" on your notebook. • Your notebook may not be experiencing some temporary memory problems. Shut down and restart your notebook. You may be able to... disc. A DVD movie will not play • Make sure that the label or side you are plugged in your notebook. • Reinstall the audio device drivers.
... a DVD player program has been installed on page 45. • Make sure that they are using your volume control, see "Recovering pre-installed software and drivers" on your notebook. • Your notebook may not be experiencing some temporary memory problems. Shut down and restart your notebook. You may be able to... disc. A DVD movie will not play • Make sure that the label or side you are plugged in your notebook. • Reinstall the audio device drivers.
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...to press. • Make sure that you want to print to be the default printer, then click Set as Default Printer. • Reinstall the printer driver. Make sure that it in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. The Control Panel window opens. 2 Click Hardware and Sound. 3 Click Printers. ...message • Make sure that the printer is online. To make sure that the printer is on but will not turn on installing the printer driver. To set to the correct port. • Make sure that came with your notebook. Type the keyword printer troubleshooting in the printer setup. CHAPTER...
...to press. • Make sure that you want to print to be the default printer, then click Set as Default Printer. • Reinstall the printer driver. Make sure that it in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. The Control Panel window opens. 2 Click Hardware and Sound. 3 Click Printers. ...message • Make sure that the printer is online. To make sure that the printer is on but will not turn on installing the printer driver. To set to the correct port. • Make sure that came with your notebook. Type the keyword printer troubleshooting in the printer setup. CHAPTER...