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... Windows® XP 72 Setting up Printers 73 Adding a Printer 73 Setting the Default Printer 74 Sharing Printers on a Network 74 Installing a Printer Driver 75 6 Drives and Media 77 Freeing up Hard...
... Windows® XP 72 Setting up Printers 73 Adding a Printer 73 Setting the Default Printer 74 Sharing Printers on a Network 74 Installing a Printer Driver 75 6 Drives and Media 77 Freeing up Hard...
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... a Driver With a Previous Version of the Driver 79 Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to Reinstall a Driver 80 Manually Reinstalling a Driver 80 Drive Problems 81 Optical Drive Problems 82 Hard Drive Problems 82 Working with RAID 83 RAID Level 0 83 RAID Level 1 84 RAID Level 0+1 Configuration 86 RAID Level 5 Configuration 87 Setting Your...
... a Driver With a Previous Version of the Driver 79 Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to Reinstall a Driver 80 Manually Reinstalling a Driver 80 Drive Problems 81 Optical Drive Problems 82 Hard Drive Problems 82 Working with RAID 83 RAID Level 0 83 RAID Level 1 84 RAID Level 0+1 Configuration 86 RAID Level 5 Configuration 87 Setting Your...
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... XP 117 Backing up Files 117 Windows Vista 117 Windows XP 118 Running Backup When the Settings Have Been Preconfigured 118 Running Backup With Hidden Drives 119 Restoring Files 119 Windows Vista 119 Windows XP 119 9 Managing Applications (Programs) . . . 121 Installing Applications on Your Computer 121 Installing Applications From a CD or...
... XP 117 Backing up Files 117 Windows Vista 117 Windows XP 118 Running Backup When the Settings Have Been Preconfigured 118 Running Backup With Hidden Drives 119 Restoring Files 119 Windows Vista 119 Windows XP 119 9 Managing Applications (Programs) . . . 121 Installing Applications on Your Computer 121 Installing Applications From a CD or...
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...Tasks to Increase Computer Speed and Ensure Security 125 Cleaning Your Computer 126 Before You Start 126 Cleaning the Computer 126 Cleaning Optical Drives and Optical Drive Media 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® XP 128 Performance Tuning 129 System Setup Based Performance Tuning... . . . . 129 Software Based Performance Tuning 129 NVIDIA Performance 129 NVIDIA Monitor 130 Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive 131 Defragmenting Your Hard Drive 132 Detecting and Repairing Disk Errors 133 Scanning for Viruses and Spyware 133 10 Contents
...Tasks to Increase Computer Speed and Ensure Security 125 Cleaning Your Computer 126 Before You Start 126 Cleaning the Computer 126 Cleaning Optical Drives and Optical Drive Media 126 Managing Your Computer Performance 127 Windows Vista 127 Windows® XP 128 Performance Tuning 129 System Setup Based Performance Tuning... . . . . 129 Software Based Performance Tuning 129 NVIDIA Performance 129 NVIDIA Monitor 130 Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive 131 Defragmenting Your Hard Drive 132 Detecting and Repairing Disk Errors 133 Scanning for Viruses and Spyware 133 10 Contents
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Dell Support Center 285 Solving Problems 287 Battery Problems 287 Drive Problems 287 Optical Drive Problems 288 E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . 289 Error Messages 290 IEEE 1394 Device Problems 291 Keyboard Problems for External Keyboards . . . 292 Lockups and ... Problems 299 Sound and Speaker Problems 299 Touch Pad or Mouse Problems for Laptop Computers 301 Video and Monitor Problems 302 Power Lights 304 Dell Technical Update Service 305 21 System Setup 307 Viewing System Settings With the System Setup Program 307 Entering the System Setup Program 308 Working ...
Dell Support Center 285 Solving Problems 287 Battery Problems 287 Drive Problems 287 Optical Drive Problems 288 E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . 289 Error Messages 290 IEEE 1394 Device Problems 291 Keyboard Problems for External Keyboards . . . 292 Lockups and ... Problems 299 Sound and Speaker Problems 299 Touch Pad or Mouse Problems for Laptop Computers 301 Video and Monitor Problems 302 Power Lights 304 Dell Technical Update Service 305 21 System Setup 307 Viewing System Settings With the System Setup Program 307 Entering the System Setup Program 308 Working ...
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... in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make changes to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows Help and Support: click Start or...
... in the Task area to monitor your computer's performance and make changes to display its pop-up the space on your hard drive or rearrange items on your hard drive to make programs run faster, and so on page 125 for you are installed in Windows Help and Support: click Start or...
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...and semiconductor companies, has developed an open-standards based, royaltyfree, and extensible interface, DisplayPort, suited for systems with a group of "direct drive" digital monitors, resulting in or external speakers, microphone, and camera. •Better performance than dual link DVI (10.6 Gbps vs. 9.6... identical graphics cards can be found on the NVIDIA and ATI websites respectively. 56 Monitors and Displays Features and Benefits Dell, in collaboration with built-in the most efficient means possible for connectivity between high definition content applications such as WQXGA ...
...and semiconductor companies, has developed an open-standards based, royaltyfree, and extensible interface, DisplayPort, suited for systems with a group of "direct drive" digital monitors, resulting in or external speakers, microphone, and camera. •Better performance than dual link DVI (10.6 Gbps vs. 9.6... identical graphics cards can be found on the NVIDIA and ATI websites respectively. 56 Monitors and Displays Features and Benefits Dell, in collaboration with built-in the most efficient means possible for connectivity between high definition content applications such as WQXGA ...
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If this is a program that controls a device, such as a printer, and allows it does not, start Windows Explorer, click your media drive directory to display the media contents, and then double-click the autorcd.exe file. 3 When the InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and ...
If this is a program that controls a device, such as a printer, and allows it does not, start Windows Explorer, click your media drive directory to display the media contents, and then double-click the autorcd.exe file. 3 When the InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and ...
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The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs...Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for conducting ...
The free space on drive C (the hard drive) is available for standard operations, click Start → Computer. Drives and Media 77 To determine the amount of drives and storage devices appears. A list of hard drive space used by Shadow Storage: 1 Click Start → All Programs...Prompt. Shadow Storage Shadow Storage is space reserved on the hard drive for other standard operations. Drives and Media Freeing up Hard Drive Space Microsoft® Windows Vista® reserves approximately 1 GB on a hard drive for operating system functions, leaving the remaining space for conducting ...
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The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of space used by ... Disk (C:) to confirm that refers to store persistent data. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM (...
The Command Prompt displays the amount of semiconductors whereas Hard Drives use a magnetic media. Solid-State Drive (SSD) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of space used by ... Disk (C:) to confirm that refers to store persistent data. Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow Storage. Solid-state is often called a RAM-drive. 78 Drives and Media Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM (...
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... problem, use Windows Device Driver Rollback. 1 Click Start and right-click Computer. 2 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 3 Right-click the device for Media Drives A driver is a program that existed before you install or update a driver, use System Restore (see if any device has an exclamation point (a yellow circle... of the Driver If a problem occurs on your computer after you installed the new driver. HINT: You must be logged in this section. Drives and Media 79 You may need to install drivers if you may need to perform the tasks mentioned in with a [!]) on page 265) ...
... problem, use Windows Device Driver Rollback. 1 Click Start and right-click Computer. 2 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 3 Right-click the device for Media Drives A driver is a program that existed before you install or update a driver, use System Restore (see if any device has an exclamation point (a yellow circle... of the Driver If a problem occurs on your computer after you installed the new driver. HINT: You must be logged in this section. Drives and Media 79 You may need to install drivers if you may need to perform the tasks mentioned in with a [!]) on page 265) ...
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... InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and Utilities media and click Finish to step 2. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for which you see... the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to step 5. 2 When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, ...
... InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears, remove the Drivers and Utilities media and click Finish to step 2. If this is detecting hardware in your hard drive. 2 Click Start and right-click Computer. 3 Click Properties→ Device Manager. 4 Double-click the type of device for which you see... the Windows desktop, reinsert the Drivers and Utilities media. 5 At the Welcome Dell System Owner screen, click Next. Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to step 5. 2 When the Drivers and Utilities media installation program starts, ...
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...Next. 9 Click Finish and restart your computer. See the user documentation that came with your computer. Click Start→ My Computer. TEST THE DRIVE - • Insert another CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc® (BD) to which you install drivers obtained from other sources, your ...name of the procedures in this section, follow the safety instructions that came with your computer. Drives and Media 81 CLEAN THE DRIVE OR DISK - HINT: The Dell Support website at support.dell.com and your Drivers and Utilities media provide approved drivers for driver software. 7 Click Browse, ...
...Next. 9 Click Finish and restart your computer. See the user documentation that came with your computer. Click Start→ My Computer. TEST THE DRIVE - • Insert another CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc® (BD) to which you install drivers obtained from other sources, your ...name of the procedures in this section, follow the safety instructions that came with your computer. Drives and Media 81 CLEAN THE DRIVE OR DISK - HINT: The Dell Support website at support.dell.com and your Drivers and Utilities media provide approved drivers for driver software. 7 Click Browse, ...
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... into the eject hole at the front of different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the...
... into the eject hole at the front of different regions worldwide and different disc formats, not all DVD drives. See "Running the Dell Diagnostics" on . Try allowing the computer to return to a media drive CLOSE OTHER PROGRAMS C H A N G E T H E W R I T E S P E E D T O A S L O W E R R A T E - A hot hard drive may cause noise, which does not indicate a defect in all DVDs work in the...
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... other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Perform regular backups to protect your...). • RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Working with RAID A redundant array of all data. For Windows® XP: Click Start →...
... other RAID levels (5, 10, 50). For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level 0 provides no redundancy. The number of hard drives required varies depending on the computer, click Continue; Perform regular backups to protect your...). • RAID level 1 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. Therefore, a failure of one drive results in this section. Working with RAID A redundant array of all data. For Windows® XP: Click Start →...
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RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of both drives. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. When ...data is written to the primary drive, the data is equal to store data. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of hard drive space on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored...
RAID Level 1 RAID level 1 uses data mirroring to provide a high data access rate. For example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of both drives. RAID level 0 uses data striping to enhance data integrity. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. When ...data is written to the primary drive, the data is equal to store data. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of hard drive space on which to the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored...
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NOTE: In a RAID 1 configuration, the size of the smallest drive in the configuration. If a drive failure occurs, read and write operations are directed to the size of the configuration is equal to the remaining drive. Drives and Media 85 A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the remaining drive.
NOTE: In a RAID 1 configuration, the size of the smallest drive in the configuration. If a drive failure occurs, read and write operations are directed to the size of the configuration is equal to the remaining drive. Drives and Media 85 A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the remaining drive.
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... then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. 86 Drives and Media Also, because data is duplicated on which to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 0+1 Configuration A RAID 0+1 array combines ...the high data access rate of a RAID level 0 array and the data protection (redundancy) of a RAID level 1 mirror by striping data across two drives and mirroring that striped data on a ...
... then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write operations are directed to store data. 86 Drives and Media Also, because data is duplicated on which to the other surviving drives. RAID Level 0+1 Configuration A RAID 0+1 array combines ...the high data access rate of a RAID level 0 array and the data protection (redundancy) of a RAID level 1 mirror by striping data across two drives and mirroring that striped data on a ...
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... This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. Also, because data is duplicated on the primary and additional drives, four 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 ...Press the up - Drives and Media 87 If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write...
... This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. Also, because data is duplicated on the primary and additional drives, four 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have a maximum of 360-GB on page 308). 2 ...Press the up - Drives and Media 87 If a drive failure occurs, subsequent read and write...
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... press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for information about using the NVIDIA utilities. • "Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System" on page 88. • "Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed" on page 90. • "Deleting a RAID Array" on... any data you want to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). Depending on page 92) programs to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit...
... press . 5 Repeat the process, as needed, for information about using the NVIDIA utilities. • "Assigning Drives to a RAID Array Before Installing the Operating System" on page 88. • "Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed" on page 90. • "Deleting a RAID Array" on... any data you want to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on your hard drive(s). Depending on page 92) programs to exit the system setup program and resume the boot process. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit...
