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Immediate Help and Support You can locate helpful information immediately by consulting your hard copy guides and supplements, or by accessing the online Computer User Guide and individual software Help files. Your computer is supplied with these support options:  VAIO® Computer Quick Start - The Quick Start contains information on how to set up your computer quickly and easily. You can find instructions on how to connect power cords, cables, peripheral devices, and register your computer with Sony®. The Quick Start can also provide basic troubleshooting support.  About RAID Systems - Contains an overview of RAID-0 and RAID-1 levels, along with simple instructions on RAID configuration. This guide is available only with configure-to-order (CTO) computers that are shipped as RAID-0 or RAID-ready.  VAIO® Recovery Options Guide - Provides information about restoring individual software programs, software drivers, drive partition(s), or your entire hard disk drive to the original factory installed settings.  VAIO® Computer User Guide - The online User Guide provides information about configuring, maintaining, and upgrading your computer. This support resource offers a variety of available topics, enabling you to quickly view specific information using context-sensitive search features. To access the online guide: 1. Click Start in the Windows® taskbar, then click Help and Support. 2. From the VAIO Help And Support Center menu, click VAIO User Guide.  Specifications - The online specifications sheet describes the hardware and software configuration of your VAIO computer. To view the online specifications sheet: 1. Connect to the Internet. 2. Go to the Sony online support Web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport. 3. Click the Documentation button and follow the on-screen instructions to locate your model's specifications sheet. 4. Preinstalled software Help files - Each preinstalled software program provides online Help within the software, that describes the software's features. In these Help files, you can find tutorials that teach you to use the software and locate troubleshooting support, should problems occur. To access software Help files: 1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar and point to All Programs. A submenu appears, listing all preinstalled software programs. 2. Click the desired software program.1 The software's main window appears. 3. From the menu bar, click Help. The software program's Help appears. 5. VAIO Software - This feature provides specific information on preinstalled software on your computer. To access this online software information 1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar. 2. Click Welcome to VAIO life. 1 Y ou c an loc ate the online H elp for Sony® s oftware programs by pointing to the individual s oftware program's ic on and s elec ting H elp from the s ubmenu. Page 159

Section	Page
Welcome	1
Getting Started	2
Unpacking Your Computer	3
Planning an Ergonomic Work Space	5
Locating Controls And Ports	6
About the Front Panel	7
Front panel	8
About the Back Panel	12
Back panel	13
About the Sub-woofer	16
Sub-woofer unit	17
About the Keyboard	18
VAIO keyboard with Media Center features	19
About the Remote Control	21
Remote control	22
Setting up the remote control	26
About the i.LINK Port	27
Connecting an i.LINK (IEEE 1394) device	28
Setting Up Your Computer	29
Connecting a Display (Monitor)	30
Connecting the Speakers	31
Connecting 5.1 (6-Channel) Speaker Systems	33
Configuring Software for Your Speaker System	34
Connecting the Keyboard and Mouse	36
Connecting the Telephone and Modem	37
Connecting the Power Cords	38
Turning On Your Computer	39
Setting Up Media Center	40
Setting Up TV Connections	41
Connecting to standard cable access (CATV)	42
Connecting to a standard antenna (air) system	43
Connecting a Cable or Satellite Set-top Box	44
Connecting the Remote Sensor and Remote Sensor Control	46
To connect the remote sensor	47
To connect the remote sensor control	48
Connecting Other Devices	49
Connecting a TV monitor (display)	50
Registering Your Computer	51
About the benefits of registering with Sony	52
Turning Off Your Computer	53
To turn off your computer	54
About the power button	55
Using Memory Cards and Memory Card Readers	56
About Your Memory Card Readers	57
Inserting a Memory Card	58
Removing a Memory Card	59
About Memory Stick Media	60
Sharing Memory Cards	61
Upgrading and Maintaining your VAIO Computer	62
Overview	63
Before upgrading your computer	64
About Opening the Computer	65
Removing the top cover	66
Removing the side panel	67
About Closing the Computer	68
Replacing the side panel	69
Replacing the top cover	70
About Add-on Card Installation	71
Installing an add-on card	72
Installing Memory	74
Removing a memory module	75
Installing a memory module	76
About the Lithium Battery	77
Replacing the lithium battery	78
Resetting the computer's date and time	79
About Hard Disk Drive Installation	80
Replacing the original hard disk drive	81
Installing an additional hard disk drive	82
Identifying the additional hard disk space	84
About RAID Systems	85
A RAID Overview	86
Reasons for using a RAID array system	87
RAID array organization	88
About RAID Levels	89
RAID-0	90
RAID-1	91
Configuring a RAID Array	92
Before getting started	93
Installing additional hard disk drives	94
Using the RAID Configuration Wizard	95
Using the VAIO Recovery Wizard utility program	97
About the Intel Storage Utility program	98
RAID Glossary	100
Troubleshooting	101
About VAIO Computer Functions	102
My computer does not start.	103
What can I do if my computer or software stop responding?	104
Why does the Windows operating system stop responding during shutdown?	105
Why is my computer running slowly?	106
How do I change the video resolution of my display?	107
Why doesn't my computer resume normal operation from Stand by mode?	108
About System Security	109
How can I protect my computer against security threats, such as viruses?	110
How do I keep my preinstalled antivirus software updated?	111
About Media Center	112
Why doesn't the REW button on the remote control work when I use My Music?	113
Why aren't the song information edits I made using SonicStage software shown in My Music?	114
Why do my song information edits revert to the original content when I use My Music?	115
Why do my optimized music files take so long to appear in My Music?	116
Why do I get the error message, The input media is invalid when I try to play an MP3 file in My Music?	117
Why won't My Music show the albums (playlists) I recorded with SonicStage software?	118
Why did my Click to DVD software recording session capture television instead of video?	119
Why can't I view or record a movie when my computer is connected to an external device, such as a VCR or DVD player, or when I am using an analog input connection?	120
Why can't I fast forward or rewind a video?	121
How do I use the Media Center software or remote control to adjust my monitor when viewing TV programs?	122
What can I do if my computer freezes and restarts while I'm watching a DVD or live TV?	123
About Giga Pocket Personal Video Recorder	124
Why can't I see an image or an image that is displayed properly when I am using a VCR?	125
Why does my Giga Pocket viewing window or the images played back from a Video Capsule, appear distorted or corrupted?	126
Why does my computer seem to slow down when I play a Video Capsule?	127
Why did I get the error message, Event buffer of audio overflow?	128
Why did my on-screen display shift or split?	129
Why can't I create new Video Capsules?	130
About the Mouse and Keyboard	131
Why doesn't my mouse work properly?	132
How do I set up my mouse for left-hand use?	133
Why doesn't my keyboard work properly?	134
About the Modem	135
Why is my modem connection slow?	136
Why doesn't my modem work properly?	137
How do I change my modem to rotary or touch-tone dialing?	138
How do I set up a dial-up connection?	139
About the Speakers	140
Why is there no sound in any software program?	141
Why is the S/PDIF option disabled in the Microsoft<sup	142
Why can't I hear dialogue during DVD movie playback, using my 5.1 channel speaker system?	143
About Using a Microphone	144
Why doesn't my microphone work properly?	145
Why is my microphone so sensitive to background noise?	146
About Using Peripheral Equipment	147
How do I install a printer?	148
The connected printer does not function properly when the computer resumes from a power saving mode.	149
Notes On Use	150
About the Power Source	151
About Handling the Computer	152
About Using Giga Pocket Personal Video Recorder	154
About Handling a Monitor (Display)	155
About Disposing of the Lithium Battery	156
About Recording and Data Storage Media	157
Support Options	158
Immediate Help and Support	159
Software Help and Support	160

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Immediate Help and Support

You can locate helpful information immediately by consulting your hard copy guides and supplements, or by accessing the

online Computer User Guide and individual software Help files.

Your computer is supplied with these support options:



VAIO

Computer Quick Start —

The Quick Start contains information on how to set up your computer quickly and

easily. You can find instructions on how to connect power cords, cables, peripheral devices, and register your

computer with Sony

. The Quick Start can also provide basic troubleshooting support.



About RAID Systems

—

Contains an overview of RAID-0 and RAID-1 levels, along with simple instructions on RAID

configuration. This guide is available only with configure-to-order (CTO) computers that are shipped as RAID-0 or

RAID-ready.



VAIO

Recovery Options Guide

—

Provides information about restoring individual software programs, software

drivers, drive partition(s), or your entire hard disk drive to the original factory installed settings.



VAIO

Computer User Guide —

The online User Guide provides information about configuring, maintaining, and

upgrading your computer. This support resource offers a variety of available topics, enabling you to quickly view

specific information using context-sensitive search features. To access the online guide:

Click

Start

in the Windows

taskbar, then click

Help and Support

From the

VAIO Help And Support Center

menu, click

VAIO User Guide



Specifications

—

The online specifications sheet describes the hardware and software configuration of your VAIO

computer. To view the online specifications sheet:

Connect to the Internet.

Go to the Sony online support Web site at

http://www.sony.com/pcsupport

Click the

Documentation button

and follow the on-screen instructions to locate your model's

specifications sheet.

Preinstalled software Help files —

Each preinstalled software program provides online Help within the

software, that describes the software's features. In these Help files, you can find tutorials that teach you

to use the software and locate troubleshooting support, should problems occur. To access software Help

files:

Click

Start

in the Windows taskbar and point to

All Programs

. A submenu appears, listing all

preinstalled software programs.

Click the desired software program.

The software's main window appears.

From the menu bar, click

Help

. The software program's

Help

appears.

VAIO Software

—

This feature provides specific information on preinstalled software on your computer.

To access this online software information

Click

Start

in the Windows taskbar.

Click

Welcome to VAIO life

You can locate the online Help for Sony

software programs by pointing to the individual software program's icon and selecting Help from the

submenu.

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