Mouse Problems If the mouse pointer is difficult to control • Adjust the mouse sensitivity—click Start, Settings, Control Panel, Mouse. If a mouse connected to the serial port doesn’t work properly • Check whether the serial mouse is compatible with the OmniBook—the mouse must be compatible with the 9-pin serial Microsoft Mouse. If the OmniBook mouse doesn’t work • Make sure you don’t have an external mouse connected. If you do, you can still return control to the OmniBook mouse by checking “Ignore external pointing device” in HP User Tools, OmniBook External Device Settings. If the mouse doesn’t work in MS-DOS • See “To run MS-DOS mode” .
PC Card Problems • If a data storage card doesn’t work properly, check if it has a write- protect switch and that it’s set properly. • If a modem card doesn’t work properly, in Windows Help use the modem troubleshooter. • In Windows Help, use the PC card troubleshooter. PCI Board problems • You cannot use boot ROMs to boot off the server with a PCI network board. (You can do so with an ISA board.) Drive problems • If the floppy drive doesn’t work, check its cable connection. • If a SCSI drive doesn’t work when you connect it, make sure you turn off the OmniBook while you connect the device, that each device has a different SCSI address, and that the SCSI bus is terminated.
• If you need more disk space, in Windows Help use the disk space troubleshooter. • If files on a drive become damaged, run ScanDisk (in Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools). • If a backup-tape drive does not work correctly, its bus speed might be too slow for the OmniBook. You can decrease the OmniBook’s bus speed to 33 MHz by holding down the FN key and pressing the minus key. (To restore the normal speed, press FN and the plus key simultaneously.) 67