Laptop User Manual

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Getting Started
Selecting a place to work
Never allow any liquids to spill into any part of your computer, and
never expose the computer to rain, water, seawater or moisture.
Exposure to liquid or moisture can cause electric shock or fire,
resulting in damage or serious injury. If any of these eventualities
should accidentally occur, immediately:
1. Turn off the computer.
2. Disconnect the AC adaptor from the power plug socket and
computer.
3. Remove the battery pack.
Failure to follow these instructions could result in serious injury or
permanent damage to the computer.
Do not turn on the power again until you have taken the computer to
an authorized service center.
Avoid prolonged physical contact with the underside or surface
of the computer.
Computer base and palm rest can become hot! Avoid prolonged
contact to prevent heat injury to skin.
Today’s performance computers generate heat under normal
operating conditions, as a function of system activity. Avoid
extended contact between the computer base or palm rest and you
skin. Under certain operating conditions such prolonged contact
between the computer base or palm rest and your skin may result in
skin irritation and/or heat injury.
Consider using a hard computer insulating pad or similarly suitable
hard insulating material when using a computer on your lap.
Never place a heavy object on the computer and be careful not to
drop a heavy object onto the computer. It could damage the
computer or cause system failure.
Never turn off the computer if a drive light indicates a drive is active.
Turning off the computer while it is reading from or writing to
a disk/disc or flash media may damage the disk/disc or flash
media, the drive, or both.