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| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| Your computer does not need a floppy drive because it gets all its input from the keyboard, reads it from the hard disk or receives it from the internet. | Do not regard the missing floppy drive as an error. |
| Your computer has other exchangeable medias as for example a CD ROM drive or a removable hard disk. | Use the other exchangeable medium instead of a floppy drive. |
| You have looked for a separate floppy drive. | Use the floppy drive that is integrated in your main unit. |
| Your computer is not complete. | Ask your computer vendor to install a floppy drive into your computer. |
| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| Your computer does not need a CD ROM drive because it gets all its data from diskettes, reads it from the hard disk or receives it from the internet. | Do not regard the missing CD ROM drive as an error. |
| Your computer has other exchangeable medias as for example a removable hard disk. | Use the other exchangeable medium instead of a CD ROM drive. |
| You have looked for a separate CD ROM drive. | Use the CD ROM drive that is integrated in your main unit. |
| Your computer is not complete. | Ask your computer vendor to install a CD ROM drive into your computer. |
| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| Possibly the monitor of your computer is closed with a snap. (Particularly notebooks tend to hide their monitors in this way.) | Open your notebook. |
| Your computer is not complete. | Buy a monitor. |
| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| Your computer does not need a keyboard because it is a futuristic one with speech and / or handwriting recognition. | Do not regard the missing keyboard as an error. |
| You do not have recognized the keyboard because it lies upside down (with the keys underneath). | Turn your keyboard round. |
| You have looked for a piano keyboard because you did not know that computers have typewriter keyboards. | Look for a typewriter keyboard. |
| Possibly the keyboard of your computer is closed with a snap. (Particularly notebooks tend to hide their keyboards in this way.) | Open your notebook. |
| Your computer is not complete. | Buy a keyboard. |
| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| Your computer does not need a mouse because it gets all its input from the keyboard. | Do not regard the missing mouse as an error. |
| Possibly you have a trackball or a touch pad instead of a mouse. | Look for a trackball or a touch pad. |
| Your computer does not need a mouse because its monitor acts like a touch screen. | Use the touch screen instead of a mouse. |
| The mouse (or touch pad) may be integrated into your keyboard. (Particularly notebooks tend to integrate their touch pads into their keyboards.) | Use the touch pad that is integrated into the keyboard. |
| Your computer is not complete. | Buy a mouse. |
| potential cause | solution |
|---|---|
| The main unit of your computer may be integrated into the keyboard or into the monitor. | The keyboard or the monitor is your main unit. |
| You have not recognized the main unit because you thought that it would be a floppy drive or a CD ROM drive. | You have a main unit with an integrated floppy drive or an integrated CD ROM drive. |
| Your computer is not complete or more precisely, you only have extra devices without a computer. | Buy a computer. |
