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Owner's Manual - Page 13
...Dell Premier Support website
• Upgrades - If To download Desktop System Software:
you should also reinstall the DSS utility. updates appropriate for your operating system and support for your
5 Under Select a Device, scroll to view the appropriate support site. DSS provides critical updates for Dell 3.5-inch USB floppy drives, optical drives, and USB devices. Certified drivers...
Owner's Manual - Page 24
... came with either a USB cable or a parallel cable. If you purchased a printer cable at the same time you purchased your printer and computer. Your printer may arrive in the computer's shipping box.
Setting Up a Printer
NOTICE: Complete the operating system setup before you connect a printer to the printer owner's manual or contact the printer manufacturer.
Owner's Manual - Page 25
See "Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities" on your printer. Setting Up and Using Your Computer
25
In Windows Vista™, click the Start start the Add Printer Wizard.
→ Network→ Add a printer to start the Add Printer Wizard.
1 2
3
1 USB... be available to help you install the printer driver: In Windows® XP, click Start→ Printers and Faxes→ Add a printer to...
Owner's Manual - Page 47
.... You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 43).
3 On the Actions menu, click Create RAID Volume From Existing Hard Drive to launch the Migration Wizard.
4 Click Next on page 43).
2 Launch the Intel Storage Utility: • In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®...
Owner's Manual - Page 59
... if an incorrect time or date displays during start-up, replace the battery (see "Replacing the Battery" on page 150).
Solving Problems
CAUTION: Some of the parts described in this section, follow the safety instructions in a program, see "Contacting Dell" on page 187).
CAUTION: Before you added or removed a part before the problem started, review the
installation procedures and ensure...
Owner's Manual - Page 79
.... If an optional video card is installed, check that the electrical outlet is working by testing it with another device, such as shown on the keyboard or move the mouse. See "Power Lights" on page 174. If the power light is blinking, press a key on the setup diagram for
your computer.
TE S T T H E E L E C T R I G H T S - Video and Monitor Problems
CAUTION: Before you...
Owner's Manual - Page 90
... need to replace the driver with the previously installed version.
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Troubleshooting Tools If an exclamation point appears next to the device name, you experience a problem with any device has an exclamation point (a yellow circle with a [!]) next to see "Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities" on your problem and, if necessary, update the driver.
Windows XP
1 Click Start and click...
Owner's Manual - Page 91
... Finish to enter the Device Manager.
2 Right-click the device for which the new driver was installed, then click Properties.
4 Click Driver and click Roll Back Driver. Troubleshooting Tools
91
If this is your computer to step 2. Windows XP
1 Click Start and click Control Panel.
2 Under Pick a Category→ Performance and Maintenance→ System→ System Properties→...
Owner's Manual - Page 92
... Right-click the device for which the driver is being reinstalled, then click Properties.
5 Click Driver→ Update Driver→ Install from the Drivers and Utilities media to your hard drive, you installed additional hardware, the drivers for hardware that you want to update the driver manually. Windows XP
1 Click Start and click Control Panel.
2 Under Pick a Category, click Performance...
Owner's Manual - Page 93
... all data on the hard drive. Troubleshooting Tools
93 Use System Restore as the first solution for restoring your operating system and preserving data files.
• Dell PC Restore by Symantec (available in Windows XP) and Dell Factory Image Restore (available in the following ways:
• System Restore returns your operating system problem. otherwise, contact your operating...
Owner's Manual - Page 191
...bus operate.
cursor - It often is installed in -line memory module - device driver - Control Panel - A type of data between the processor and memory or between the processor and devices. Hardware such as a combo drive, that has no memory chips and is used to CD-RW (rewritable CDs) and CD-R (recordable CDs) discs. You can read CDs and write to hold date, time, and system setup...
Owner's Manual - Page 192
... allow the user to DVD+RW (rewritable DVDs) discs.
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Glossary Disk striping can read DVDs and most CD media and write to select the data unit size or stripe width. DMA - direct memory access -
DMTF - domain - dynamic random-access memory - Software that retrieve data from DVD-RW technology.)
DVD+RW drive - dual-core - Also referred to control a device such as extended...
Owner's Manual - Page 199
... as part of transferring data between the processor and the devices attached to automatically configure devices. If the PCI Express chip set and the device are detected during POST, the computer continues the start-up and down your computer. programmed input/output - pixel - POST - Sometimes the processor is expressed as memory, hard drives, and video.
random-access memory - PCI...
Owner's Manual - Page 201
...setup.exe or install.exe program comes with a processor and a memory chip. If you can be protected by acting as a dampening device when a computer experiences resonating shock or is dropped (whether the computer is embedded with most Windows software packages.
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface - A power management mode that encrypts voice and data transmissions. super-video...
Owner's Manual - Page 208
..., 130
drives (continued) installing optical, 145, 147 problems, 60 removing floppy, 134 removing hard drive, 129 removing optical, 143 second hard drive, 132 serial ATA, 128
DVD drive problems, 61
DVDs, 28 playing, 26
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e-mail problems, 62
End User License Agreement, 11 ergonomics information, 11 error messages
beep codes, 82 troubleshooting, 64
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Factory Image Restore, 95, 97 Files and Settings...
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