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Caution
Before you turn on your computer, be sure to read
"Important Safety Instructions" on page iii at the front of
this manual to ensure that you have created a safe
environment for your system.
Follow these steps to turn on your system:
1. If there is a protective card in a diskette drive, remove it.
2. Turn on the monitor, printer, and any other devices
connected to the computer.
3. If you do not have a hard disk with an operating system
loaded on it, insert your main operating system diskette in
drive A.
4. Turn on the computer by pressing the power button on the
right side of the front panel.
The power indicator lights up; then the computer performs its
power-on diagnostics, which are a series of checks to make
sure everything is working correctly.
During diagnostics, you see a message telling you to press
Del to run the SETUP program. (Chapter 2 describes
starting and using SETUP.)
5. If your system is configured to automatically load a program
(such as Windows), you then see the first menu or screen
display of that program. If not, you may see the operating
system prompt, such as C: \> or A: \>.
If there is no operating system installed on your computer,
you may see an error message. Ignore the message for now;
once you install the operating system, you will not see this
message.
1-8
Setting Up Your System
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