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Maintenance, Shipping
and Travel

Compaq Notebook Series

Document Part Number: 316761-002

May 2003

This guide explains how to maintain your notebook, provides
steps for routine care, and includes guidelines on how to prepare
the notebook for shipping or traveling.

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Maintenance, Shipping and Travel
Second Edition May 2003
First Edition April 2003
Document Part Number: 316761-002

Contents

1 Maintaining Your Software and

Personal Data

Installing a Retail Version of an Operating System. . . . . 1–1

Virus Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2

Backup Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2

2 Maintaining Your Hardware

Monitoring Notebook Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

Cleaning Your Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

Cleaning the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3

Cleaning the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4

Cleaning the TouchPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4

Cleaning an External Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5

Caring for Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7

3 Preparing the Notebook for Shipping

or Traveling

Traveling with the Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

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Maintaining Your Software

and Personal Data

Compaq recommends that you install all software updates as they
become available. However, if your system is connected to a
network, you may need to confer with your Information Services
department before updating system ROM.

Installing a Retail Version of an Operating System

The Windows operating system included in the QuickRestore
System Recovery CD is enhanced by Compaq. The enhancements

provide added functionality for power management, security, and
the use of drives and PC Cards.

CAUTION: Replacing a Compaq enhanced operating system with a

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retail version will result in the loss of enhancements added by
Compaq. In some cases, it may result in system lockups and loss of
unsaved information. In other cases, complete USB support will
become unavailable.

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Maintenance, Shipping and Travel 1–1

Maintaining Your Software and Personal Data

Virus Protection

If you use the notebook for e-mail or to access the World Wide
Web, you risk infecting the system with a computer virus. You
can protect the notebook from infection by installing antivirus
software.

Several products available on the market will detect the virus,
destroy it, and repair any damage it causes.

Backup Utilities

To protect the information on your notebook and retrieve lost or
damaged files, you should back up your files regularly to
diskettes or other backup media.

To do a partial backup of selected files or folders, use backup
devices such as diskettes. To do a complete hard drive backup,
use tape drives or other high-capacity backup devices.

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