Maintenance, Shipping
and Travel
hp notebook series
Document Part Number: 316760-001
April 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
First Edition April 2003
Document Part Number: 316760-001
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
HP 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 HP. The enhancements
provide added functionality for power management, security, and
the use of drives and PC Cards.
CAUTION: Replacing an HP enhanced operating system with a retail
Ä
version will result in the loss of enhancements added by HP. 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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