Dell C/Dock Expansion Station - Manual (Page 9)

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If you are using the C/Dock Expansion Station
with a monitor stand, close the computer display.
Dock the C/Dock Expansion Station to the com­
puter (see Figure 1-5).
First, center the computer on the docking control
base. To do this, place the computer on the docking
control base, and align the ridges on top of the com­
puter with the ridges on top of the C/Dock
Expansion Station. When properly aligned, you
should feel the guide rails on the docking control
base connect with the grooves on the bottom of the
computer.
Next, put your thumbs along the front edge of the
computer and your fingers in the docking control
base indents. Then push the computer toward the
C/Dock Expansion Station gently but firmly with
your thumbs. You should hear or feel a click as the
catch lever locks into place. The catch lever keeps
the C/Dock Expansion Station from being acciden­
tally disconnected from the computer.
CAUTION: Do not pick up the computer or
the C/Dock Expansion Station separately
when they are connected. Doing so could
damage the I/O connectors on the computer
and the C/Dock Expansion Station. To change
the position of the C/Dock Expansion Station
and the computer, slide or pick up the dock­
ing control base.
CAUTION: If you are using an external mon­
itor with the monitor stand, remove the
monitor from the stand before moving the
docking control base into place.
You can immediately use the network, the infrared port
(with Windows 95 and Windows 98 only), and all
devices attached to the C/Dock Expansion Station for
which device drivers are installed. While docked, you
can connect Plug and Play devices to the I/O panel of the
C/Dock Expansion Station.
If an external monitor is attached to the C/Dock Expan­
sion Station and turned on, the screen image appears on
the external monitor. To switch the image to the computer
display, or to both the monitor and the computer display,
press <Fn><F8>.
When the computer is attached to the C/Dock Expansion
Station and turned on, the green power indicator on the
docking control base lights up (see Figure 1-6). For more
information about the docking control base, see the next
section, “Docking Control Base Controls and Indicators.”
While the computer and C/Dock Expansion Station are
docked, you can use key combinations or System Setup
time-outs to put the computer into suspend mode.
The computer cannot enter suspend-to-disk mode while
docked.
D
ocking Control Base Controls
and Indicators
When the computer is used with the C/Dock Expansion
Station and a monitor stand, the power button, power
indicator, and drive access indicator on the computer are
not visible. For your convenience, however, these fea­
tures are duplicated on the docking control base (see
Figure 1-6).
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