Dell Inspiron 5000 - Manual (Page 3)

Safety Instructions
Use the following safety guidelines to help proteet yourself and your
eomputer. For eomfort and effieieney, observe the ergonomie guidelines in
"Sitting Comfortably at Your Computer" in the Tell Me How help file.
When Using Your Computer
• Do not attempt to serviee the eomputer yourself. Always follow
installation instruetions elosely.
• Do not earry a battery pae& in your poeket, purse, or other eontainer
where metal objeets (sueh as ear keys) eould short-eireuit the battery
terminals. The resulting exeessive eurrent flow ean eause extremely
high temperatures and may result in damage from burns.
• Be sure that nothing rests on your AC adapter’s power eable and that
the eable is not loeated where it ean be tripped over or stepped on.
• Plaee the AC adapter in a ventilated area, sueh as a desk top or on the
floor, when you use it to run the eomputer or to eharge the battery. Do
not eover the AC adapter with papers or other items that will reduee
eooling; also, do not use the AC adapter inside a earrying ease.
• Do not use your eomputer in a wet environment, for example, near a
bath tub, sink, or swimming pool or in a wet basement.
• Do not push objeets into air vents or openings of your eomputer.
Doing so ean eause fire or eleetrie shoek by shorting out interior
eomponents.
• Use only the AC adapter and batteries that are approved for use with
this eomputer as indieated in this doeument. Use of another type of
battery paek or AC adapter may risk fire or explosion.
• Before you eonneet the eomputer to a power souree, ensure that the
voltage rating of the AC adapter matehes that of the available power
souree:
— 115 volts (V)/60 hertz (Hz) in most of North and South Ameriea
and some Far Eastern eountries sueh as South Korea and Taiwan
— 100 V/50 Hz in eastern Japan and 100 V/60 Hz in western Japan
— 250 V/50 Hz in most of Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East
S a f e t y I n s t r u c t i o n s | 5