HP 2000/5700 Bedienungsanleitung

1 HP OmniBook 2000/5700 User’s Guide (Windows for Workgroups) HP OMNIBOOK 2000/5700 USER’S GUIDE ............................................ 4 Using This Online Manual .................................................................................................... 4 Finding More Information .................................................[...]

2 To insert and remove a CD ................................................................................................ 25 To insert a PC card ............................................................................................................ 25 To remove a PC card ......................................................................[...]

3 To perform a math function on one number ....................................................................... 47 To do simple arithmetic ..................................................................................................... 48 6. CHANGING THE CONFIGURATION .................................................. 50 Using OmniBook Tool[...]

4 HP OmniBook 2000/5700 User’s Guide This manual describes how to use the OmniBook with the Microsoft® Windows® for Workgroups operating system. It focuses on the special Hewlett-Packard hardware and software, not the Windows operating system itself. For questions about the operating system, refer to the online Windows manual (see the OmniBook [...]

5 Consumer transactions in Australia and the United Kingdom: The above disclaimers and limitations shall not apply to Consumer transactions in Australia and the United Kingdom and shall not affect the statutory rights of Consumers. © Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 1997. All rights reserved. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation of this manua[...]

6 1. Getting Comfortable • Identifying Parts of the OmniBook. • Adjusting the Display. • Using the Pointing Device. • Using Sound. • Using the OmniBook Keyboard. • Learning About Windows. Congratulations! Your OmniBook sets a new standard in personal computing. Although it’s compact and easy to carry, the OmniBook is equipped with a f[...]

7 Depending on the accessories you purchased with your OmniBook, the center drive bay can hold an internal CD-ROM drive, a floppy disk drive, or a high-capacity battery for extra battery power. Alternatively, you can connect the floppy drive to the OmniBook externally—see "To install the floppy drive."[...]

8 Adjusting the Display Your OmniBook display controls are located to the right of the display. • All OmniBooks are equipped with a brightness control. • Some models may also have a contrast control. To adjust the display • Slide the control up or down to adjust the brightness or contrast. Hint Brightness affects battery time. Keep in mind th[...]

9 Using the Pointing Device The TrackPoint III pointing device is located in the center of the keyboard, and the two click buttons are located below the keyboard. The pointing device controls the motion of the cursor on the screen by detecting pressure. The pointing device itself does not move. The cursor speed corresponds to the amount of pressure[...]

10 • To maintain a smooth pointing operation, occasionally lift the cap off the post and clean it with a soft, moistened cloth. When the cap wears out, you can replace it with one of the spares shipped with your OmniBook.[...]

11 Using Sound The OmniBook supports Sound Blaster compatible sound. In this section you’ll learn how to • Adjust the speaker volume. • Connect a microphone, speakers, or headphones. • Record and play sound. To adjust the speaker volume • Hold down Fn and press F8 or F9 as needed to gradually increase or decrease the maximum volume. (The [...]

12 Your OmniBook has a built-in microphone above the keyboard and two stereo speakers. You can also plug in an external microphone, external speakers or headphones, and a stereo input source, such as a CD player. • Plug the microphone into the microphone jack. The built-in microphone turns off. • Plug the stereo speakers or headphones into the [...]

13 Using the OmniBook Keyboard In the section you’ll learn how to • Tilt the keyboard. • Use the special features of the keyboard. To tilt the keyboard You can adjust the keyboard angle for more comfortable typing. • Flip down the built-in tilt feet located on the bottom of the OmniBook. To use special features of the OmniBook keyboard In a[...]

14 ALT GR key If your keyboard has an ALT GR key to the right of the spacebar, hold that key to type the characters printed at the bottom-right corners of keys. For keys that have four characters, hold SHIFT and ALT GR to type the upper-right characters. ¬ ‘ A L T G R U n s h i ft e d S H I F T[...]

15 Learning About Windows To learn about Windows This OmniBook User’s Guide does not discuss the Windows operating system. Rather, it introduces the OmniBook and shows you how to operate it. For information about Windows, see the following sources: • Start the Windows tutorial. In the Program Manager window, press ALT, then H, then W. • In th[...]

16 2. Operating the OmniBook • Checking the Status of the OmniBook. • Starting and Stopping the OmniBook. • Using Storage Devices. Your OmniBook has been specifically designed for ease-of-use on the road. It features “instant-on” power that immediately restores your last screen. The Status Panel provides convenient status information. And[...]

17 reminds you that the state of the computer has been saved. Caps Lock Appears when Caps Lock is active. Num Lock Appears when Num Lock is active. Scroll Lock Appears when Scroll Lock is active.[...]

18 Starting and Stopping the OmniBook You can easily start and stop your OmniBook using the blue On/Suspend button. But at certain times, you may want to use other methods for starting and stopping your OmniBook, depending on power considerations, types of active connections, and startup time. In this section you’ll learn how to: • Start the Om[...]

19 automatically turns off when you shut down Windows.) Hint Preserving connections. If you have active network connections, or if you have any SCSI devices connected, use the ac adapter and press the blue On/Suspend button to stop the OmniBook. These connections and devices are disconnected if you stop the OmniBook any other way. However, Windows [...]

20 session at turn-on. Off button Off No-power/stopped state. Everything is shut down (battery charges if ac adapter is connected). Computer reboots at turn-on. If you plug in the ac adapter while the OmniBook is stopped, battery-charging components are activated, but the OmniBook stays in the same power state. On the other hand, if you unplug the [...]

21 If these actions have no effect, remove the battery and ac adapter and press the reset button. Then install the battery or plug in the ac adapter and try pressing the reset button again. Hint Rebooting from a floppy disk. If you want to reboot from a boot disk in the floppy drive, put the disk in the floppy drive before you restart the OmniBook.[...]

22 Using Storage Devices Your OmniBook can access information in the following types of data storage devices. Each device is assigned a drive letter by the operating system. For example, the floppy drive is drive A, and the internal hard disk is drive C. Drive letters for other devices depend on what devices are present. • The floppy disk drive ([...]

23 –or– • To connect the floppy drive to the OmniBook externally, pull out the floppy drive cable and connect it to the parallel port on the left side of the OmniBook. To remove the CD-ROM or floppy drive 1. Slide the switch to the right. A pull-tab pops out. 2. Pull the pull-tab firmly to remove the CD-ROM or floppy drive from the OmniBook. [...]

24 To insert and eject a floppy disk When the OmniBook is reading or writing data to the floppy drive, the floppy disk indicator appears on the Status Panel. Caution Do not insert or remove a floppy disk while the OmniBook is actively reading or writing data. Wait until the floppy drive is done. Otherwise, you could lose data or the OmniBook could [...]

25 Press the reset button. To insert and remove a CD When the OmniBook is reading data from the CD-ROM drive, the CD disk indicator appears on the Status Panel. Caution Do not insert or remove a CD while the OmniBook is actively reading data. Wait until the CD-ROM drive is done. Otherwise, the OmniBook could stop responding. 1. Press the open butto[...]

26 For information about compatible cards, visit our Web site at http://www.hp.com/go/omnibook. Or contact Hewlett-Packard as described in the Support and Service booklet. Caution Do not install Card Services or Socket Services software if it comes with your PC card. The OmniBook already includes Card Services and Socket Services, which automatical[...]

27 To remove a PC card Caution Never remove an I/O card while an application is open that’s set up to use that card. Exit the application first. If you remove the card, the application (or the OmniBook) might behave unpredictably or stop responding until you restart the OmniBook. Never insert or remove a plug-in card while the PC card drive is ac[...]

28 3. Managing Battery Power • Monitoring Battery Power. • Recharging and Replacing Batteries. • Controlling Battery Power. The primary source of power for the OmniBook is its rechargeable battery. The OmniBook provides several safeguards so that you won’t be surprised by a dead- battery condition. The status panel shows the remaining batte[...]

29 Recharging and Replacing Batteries You can use the ac adapter to recharge the battery—and to run on ac power to preserve the battery. The OmniBook conserves power by using Advanced Power Management (APM), software that controls power drain. Data on any of the drives is not affected by a low battery. However, the data could be affected if the b[...]

30 The orange charging light on the battery turns on while the battery is charging. The light turns off when the battery isn’t charging. Hint Optimum charging. To get the longest battery operating time, wait until the Charge indicator (lightning bolt) turns off in the Status Panel. The light on the battery will also turn off. Charging stops when [...]

31 Maintaining the backup battery. The permanent, internal backup battery recharges whenever you plug the ac adapter into the OmniBook. The backup battery can run down if you always charge the main battery in an external charger and never connect the ac adapter to the OmniBook. To install a second battery To increase the time you can work on batter[...]

32 Controlling Battery Power The OmniBook uses Advanced Power Management (APM) to conserve battery power. You can take steps to optimize your battery operating time. In this section you’ll learn how to • Respond to a low-battery warning. • Save battery power. • Change how power is managed. To respond to a low-battery warning When battery po[...]

33 timeout setting usually uses more battery power. For ideas about how to save battery power, see “To save battery power.” • Run OmniBook Tools and click the Power Management button. You can change these power settings: Automatic timeout settings. –or– • Save your work, then run the System Configuration Utility and use its Power menu. [...]

34 4. Protecting Your OmniBook • Attaching a Security Cable. • Setting Up Password Protection. • Protecting Your Data. Your OmniBook provides several ways for you to identify and protect your computer. Attaching a Security Cable Your OmniBook has three built-in connectors that allow you to secure the OmniBook with a cable—two on the back of[...]

35 Setting Up Password Protection You can protect your OmniBook against unauthorized use by activating password security. You can create a user password for normal protection against unauthorized use. You can also create an administrator password for a system administrator or as a backup for the user password. Or your system administrator might set[...]

36 • PC identification protection. Prevents an unauthorized person from changing your identification stored in the computer. • Separate user and administrator passwords. The user password is the general password for most types of protection. The administrator password can serve as a backup for the user password—you can enter it any time the u[...]

37 Type of Protection Steps Turn-on protection 1. Set a user password. 2. Select one of the “turn-on” options (not Never). Undocking protection 1. Set a user password. 2. Select the “undock” option. 3. Connect a Kensington lock to the dock (to prevent manual undocking). Setup protection 1. Set a user or administrator password. 2. Select the[...]

38 Protecting Your Data As you create or add information on your OmniBook, the need to make backup copies of that information becomes more important. By making backup copies of key files, you can reduce the chance of accidentally losing that data. You can back up individual files to floppy disks using the Windows File Manager. For more elaborate ba[...]

39 • Run OmniBook Tools and click the Uninstall button. Choose the sets of files you want to delete, or exit without deleting files.[...]

40 5. Using the Personal Information Applications • Managing Your Time with Appointment Book. • Listing People in Phone Book. • Getting Answers from HP Financial Calculator. This chapter introduces three applications to help you keep track of things— meetings and appointments, addresses and telephone numbers, personal records and finances?[...]

41 Managing Your Time with Appointment Book Appointment Book in your OmniBook is the perfect replacement for that old pocket calendar or bulky scheduler you may have used in the past. Appointment Book helps allocate your time, and is as easy to use as other Windows applications. Here are some of the ways to put Appointment Book to work: • View yo[...]

42 To change to a different day, month, or year • Click the desired day, month, or year in the Calendar. To add a new appointment 1. If necessary, click the day in the Calendar to display the day of your new appointment. 2. Click the mouse on the line next to the desired time in the Appointment area. Double-click to open the Add Appointment/Event[...]

43 When the OmniBook signals an appointment, it displays a dialog box to signal the alarm, even if you have exited Appointment Book or are working in another application. If the OmniBook is off, it turns on to display the box and signal your alarm. To add a new event Events (like holidays and anniversaries) are special days you don’t want to forg[...]

44 To run a program automatically • Create an appointment whose Description field starts with | followed by the command line. For example, to run a batch file called BACKUP (in directory MYFILES) at 1:00 a.m., set an appointment for 1:00 with this Description field: |C:MYFILESBACKUP.BAT[...]

45 Listing People in Phone Book Phone Book is another valuable part of your portable OmniBook. It is actually a personal database containing names, addresses, and—most important—telephone numbers, all ready for handy reference. You can add entries, delete them, search for a specific name, or even search for specific text. This section gives a b[...]

46 4. Click OK or press ENTER to enter the item into the list. –or– Click Save to enter the item into the list and open a new, blank item. This is a good way to add several items to the list, one after another. When you add new persons to the list, they’re automatically placed in alphabetical order. Hints • For ease of typing, you can use t[...]

47 Getting Answers from HP Financial Calculator HP Financial Calculator gives you all the power and convenience of a full-fledged Hewlett-Packard handheld calculator. It lets you quickly perform mathematical operations, as well as sophisticated financial and scientific calculations. Here’s a sample of what you can do with this handy OmniBook appl[...]

48 HP Calculator “takes over” part of your OmniBook’s keyboard and reassigns functions to it. You can see these functions and the applicable keys on the display of calculator buttons—for example, pressing the Q key takes the square root of the number in the Calc line. Hints Use BACKSPACE to correct a single keystroke on the Calc line. Use D[...]

49 If you are entering a multi-step problem, intermediate results are calculated when you type the next arithmetic operator. You can also type parentheses to group different parts of a calculation.[...]

50 6. Changing the Configuration • Using OmniBook Tools. • Using the System Configuration Utility. • System Resources. You can use the System Configuration Utility (SCU) or the Tools application to change OmniBook configuration settings. The SCU provides more options for certain settings. The following chart summarizes the OmniBook settings y[...]

51 Hard disk security x Other Date and time x x Sound volume x x Boot setup x Drive types x Cache setup x Memory size x x BIOS version x x Uninstall software x[...]

52 Using OmniBook Tools OmniBook Tools give you a convenient way in Windows for Workgroups to change the way your OmniBook looks and operates. For many settings, it’s an alternative to using the System Configuration Utility. To run OmniBook Tools 1. In Program Manager, double-click the OmniBook Tools icon (in the Main group). 2. Click the buttons[...]

53 Power Management “Options for Battery Power” balances the tradeoffs between power savings and performance speed while operating on battery power. Click Custom to set timeouts individually. “Idle Time before Turn-Off” shows the individual timeouts. Uninstall Lets you remove selected sets of OmniBook software from the hard disk. Password ?[...]

54 Using the System Configuration Utility The System Configuration Utility (SCU) provides access to basic configuration settings. It is independent of the operating system. To run the SCU during reboot 1. Close all applications, then shut down Windows and reboot the OmniBook. If necessary, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot. 2. During reboot, at [...]

55 system, which configures such cards. "Auto-detect" performs a boot-device-only or full configuration, depending on whether the operating system last used was PnP or not. Fast Boot. Skips the RAM test. Enable SCSI BIOS. Enable only if drivers aren’t available for the operating system. Enable boot sector virus check. Avoids a potential[...]

56 Input/Output menu COM Ports Sets serial and infrared port addresses and interrupts. Reboot required. LPT Port Sets printer port address. Reboot required. LPT Type Sets printer port communication. Reboot required. Keyboard Setup “Key Delay” sets how long you hold a key down before the character starts repeating. “Key Repeat Rate” sets how[...]

57 system. Battery Charging Sets the order for charging two batteries. Only one battery charges at a time. Save required. Exit menu Save and Exit Saves changes and exits without rebooting. Save and Reboot Saves changes and reboots the computer. Exit (No Save) Discards changes and exits. Default Settings Resets all settings to defaults without exiti[...]

58 System Resources Below are default values for system resources. To see other, non-default possibilities, use the System Configuration Utility, which lists port and audio device configurations in the Input/Output menu. The tables in this section show typical resource usage as set up by the OmniBook BIOS. Plug-and-play operating systems, drivers, [...]

59 System Input/Output Addresses (100-3FF) 15C-15D Super I/O (docked) 170-177 Secondary HDD controller (internal CD-ROM) 1F0-1F7 Internal hard disk 200-207 Joystick 220-22F Crystal sound 2F8-2FF COM2 (infrared port) 330-331 MPU 401 (MIDI) 376 Secondary HDD controller (internal CD-ROM) 378-37F LPT1 (printer port) 388-38B Sound 3B0-3BB VGA adapter 3C[...]

60 7. Troubleshooting • Solving Problems. If you run into problems using your OmniBook, you can use the suggestions in this chapter for getting back on track. You can also check the contents and index for pointers to related information. If you have questions that this manual doesn’t answer, you can • See the troubleshooting chapter in the Om[...]

61 • Start Infrared Monitor before you print. • Make sure the infrared light path is not blocked. • Make sure Windows is running—infrared printing is supported only while Windows is running. • Make sure the infrared printer is IrDA compatible. • Make sure you have not disabled IrDA support on your OmniBook. • If you have a PC card tha[...]

62 • Check the OmniBook serial port assignments in OmniBook Tools. Click Connections, then COM Ports. For a serial mouse, the serial port must be assigned to COM1. • Check whether the serial mouse is compatible with the OmniBook—the mouse must be compatible with the 9-pin serial Microsoft Mouse. File, Drive, and PC Card Problems If a PC card [...]

63 Use the System Configuration Utility to check the COM port settings and assignments. • Check that the COM name you’re using is actually assigned to the port you’re using. • If an application doesn’t support the COM port number assigned, change the port number in the System Configuration Utility. • Check whether another application is[...]

64 If the display scrolls when the pointer reaches the edge • A high-resolution display setting is active. You can use a high-resolution external display and turn off the OmniBook display by pressing Fn+F5, or you can choose the default OmniBook display setting. Power Problems If you have power problems that interfere with turning on or starting [...]

65 • If the OmniBook is performing an operation, it normally waits for the operation to finish. • If you’re using MS-DOS Prompt in the full screen (not inside a window), it may take up to 10 to 15 seconds to suspend. If the OmniBook reboots every time you turn it on • This is normal if you turn it off by pressing the square Off button on th[...]

66 —A— ac adapter charging battery, 29 connecting, 29 preserves connections, 19 socket for, 6 status, 16 type, 29 adding appointments, 42 events, 43 phone entries, 45 address resources, 58 adjusting brightness, 8 contrast, 8 keyboard angle, 13 volume, 11 admin password deleting, 37 options, 52, 54 setting up, 35 Advanced Power Management, 28 al[...]

67 display adjusting, 8 brightness and contrast, 8 configuration settings, 52, 54 latches, 6 troubleshooting, 63 turning off, 18 Display Off state, 19 displaying appointments, 41 DMA channels, 58 docking messages, 54 docking port, 6 drive A booting from, 21 location, 22 drive C booting from, 20 deleting files, 38 location, 22 partitions, 22 repairi[...]

68 tilting, 13 —L— learning Windows, 15 light (orange charging), 30 lockup problems, 65 low battery charging, 29 replacing, 30 warning, 32, 54 —M— math, 47 memory addresses, 58 amount, 52, 54, 61 troubleshooting, 61 microphone, 11 MicroSaver lock, 34, 36 MIDI port, 6 mouse external, 54 moving the pointer, 9 mute, 11 —N— networks at turn[...]

69 security cable, 34, 36 types, 35 —R— RAM cards battery, 26 rebooting configuration, 54 from drive C, 20 from floppy drive, 21 recharging battery, 29 recording sound, 12 removing appointments and events, 43 battery, 30 CD-ROM drive, 23 floppy drive, 23 high-capacity battery, 23 OmniBook files, 38 passwords, 37 PC cards, 27 pointing device cap[...]

70 —U— undocking security, 35 uninstalling software, 38 updates, 4 upper memory blocks, 58 user password deleting, 37 options, 52, 54 setting up, 35 —V— VGA output, 6 viewing appointments, 41 volume adjusting, 11, 54 muting, 11 —W— warning (low battery), 32, 54 Web site, 4 Windows installing, 4 learning about, 15 —Z— Zoomed Video, 2[...]