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General Maintenance Tips
Never expose your notebook to extreme heat or extreme cold
Do not expose your laptop to resonating noises, like loud bass noise from speakers, heavy machinery, etc.
Keep magnetic devices away from your laptop
Avoid eating and drinking around your laptop (leading cause of stuck keyboards: crumbs!)
Best keyboard cleaner: a bit of WD-40 on a cotton ball or cotton swab
Avoid alcohol or ammonia-based cleaners (most standard glass cleaners on the market) on plastic LCD screens. These can damage or cause cracks in the LCD. A light vinegar-water solution or soft cloth wipe is a better solution.
Avoiding the Modem-Frying Monster
It's a unfortunate occurrence and it could be a costly one. Here's the scenario: you plug your notebook's PC Card modem into the data port on a phone or wall jack of a hotel. Not only do you get no dial tone, but you find your modem no longer works. You've just been bitten by the Modem-Frying Monster.
The problem: most telephones use standard analog signals, including the standard phone jacks we use at home. But some hotel, motel and office telephone systems use digital signals that can instantly fry a standard modem.
The solution: only plug your modem into a clearly-labeled data port or one intended for a modem. Make sure the room you reserve at your hotel has one. You can also use a special adapter that lets you plug analog modems into digital phone systems. Call Avanciel for details on these adapters.
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