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... 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 Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your Computer 99 Windows Vista 99 Windows® XP 99 Shutdown States 101 Microsoft®...
... 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 Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode 87 Configuring RAID 88 7 Shutting Down Your Computer 99 Windows Vista 99 Windows® XP 99 Shutdown States 101 Microsoft®...
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...Menu Example 227 What to do If the TV Does not Recognize a Signal 228 Evaluating Suggested Connection Configurations . . . 229 Enabling the Display View for the Computer and the TV 239 Verify the ... for the TV 239 Set up the TV as a Display Device 239 Configure the Display Views 240 Dual Independent Display Mode 241 Swapping Primary and Secondary Displays . . . .... 242 Switching the Display Image 242 Configuring Display Settings 242 Setting Display Resolution With the Windows Display Properties Menu 243 Accessing the...
...Menu Example 227 What to do If the TV Does not Recognize a Signal 228 Evaluating Suggested Connection Configurations . . . 229 Enabling the Display View for the Computer and the TV 239 Verify the ... for the TV 239 Set up the TV as a Display Device 239 Configure the Display Views 240 Dual Independent Display Mode 241 Swapping Primary and Secondary Displays . . . .... 242 Switching the Display Image 242 Configuring Display Settings 242 Setting Display Resolution With the Windows Display Properties Menu 243 Accessing the...
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Using a TV Wizard to Configure Display Settings 248 Getting Help for Video Card Control Panels . . . 249 Troubleshooting Display Settings 249 Where to Find Help 249 Resolving Common Problems 249 17 ...
Using a TV Wizard to Configure Display Settings 248 Getting Help for Video Card Control Panels . . . 249 Troubleshooting Display Settings 249 Where to Find Help 249 Resolving Common Problems 249 17 ...
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Control Panel To manage viewing features and computer functions, click Start or → Control Panel. Information About Installed Hardware Device Manager Use the Device Manager to view a list of all devices installed on your computer and to learn more about how a specific device is configured. 26 Finding Information FOR MORE INFORMATION: See Windows Help and Support: click Start or → Help and Support.
Control Panel To manage viewing features and computer functions, click Start or → Control Panel. Information About Installed Hardware Device Manager Use the Device Manager to view a list of all devices installed on your computer and to learn more about how a specific device is configured. 26 Finding Information FOR MORE INFORMATION: See Windows Help and Support: click Start or → Help and Support.
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... and Support: click Start or → Help and Support. Double click Components to view a table identifying the component or device name and related setting and configuration information. Finding Information 27 Exporting System Information as a Text File 1 Click Start or → All Programs→ Accessories→ System Tools→ System Information. 2 On...
... and Support: click Start or → Help and Support. Double click Components to view a table identifying the component or device name and related setting and configuration information. Finding Information 27 Exporting System Information as a Text File 1 Click Start or → All Programs→ Accessories→ System Tools→ System Information. 2 On...
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...Center • Support History & Status • System Configuration • Technical Subscriptions • Troubleshooting Search • Windows Vista Center • Windows XP Support Center • Wireless Center Customer Service • Dell Financial Services • FAQs • Invoices •...• Order Status • Ownership Transfer • International Ownership Transfer • Packing Slips • Pickup/Redelivery • Dell Dollars/Rebate Center • Report a Stolen System • Returns • Update Billing Address Warranty Information • Expired Warranty ...
...Center • Support History & Status • System Configuration • Technical Subscriptions • Troubleshooting Search • Windows Vista Center • Windows XP Support Center • Wireless Center Customer Service • Dell Financial Services • FAQs • Invoices •...• Order Status • Ownership Transfer • International Ownership Transfer • Packing Slips • Pickup/Redelivery • Dell Dollars/Rebate Center • Report a Stolen System • Returns • Update Billing Address Warranty Information • Expired Warranty ...
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... change user-selectable options such as your password. • Verify information about accessing the system setup program and configuring hardware components, see "System Setup" on page 301. • Service Contracts & Forms • Warranty Status Dell Forums • Support Forums • Discussion Forums Contact Us • Customer Service • Financing Support • Sales...
... change user-selectable options such as your password. • Verify information about accessing the system setup program and configuring hardware components, see "System Setup" on page 301. • Service Contracts & Forms • Warranty Status Dell Forums • Support Forums • Discussion Forums Contact Us • Customer Service • Financing Support • Sales...
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... ambient light sensor is located on your laptop computer only. The sensor detects available environmental light and automatically increases or decreases the display backlighting to configure multiple monitors, see "Windows Basic" in Bright or LowLight Environments: NOTE: Your laptop computer may not have an ambient light sensor. For more about the...
... ambient light sensor is located on your laptop computer only. The sensor detects available environmental light and automatically increases or decreases the display backlighting to configure multiple monitors, see "Windows Basic" in Bright or LowLight Environments: NOTE: Your laptop computer may not have an ambient light sensor. For more about the...
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...delivering flat panel display technology to enable NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) or ATI Crossfire technologies. Doing so can be configured to end users. Detailed information about the benefits of leading PC, graphics, and semiconductor companies, has developed an open-...based, royaltyfree, and extensible interface, DisplayPort, suited for both external desktop monitors and internal display interfaces. Features and Benefits Dell, in collaboration with built-in the most efficient means possible for connectivity between high definition content applications such as WQXGA (...
...delivering flat panel display technology to enable NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) or ATI Crossfire technologies. Doing so can be configured to end users. Detailed information about the benefits of leading PC, graphics, and semiconductor companies, has developed an open-...based, royaltyfree, and extensible interface, DisplayPort, suited for both external desktop monitors and internal display interfaces. 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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... represents the Bluetooth-enabled mouse, and click Next. 7 Click Don't use a passkey→ Next. Check the documentation for the mouse for more about adding and configuring devices, see Windows Help and Support: click Start or → Help and Support. Windows® XP 1 Attach or turn on your Bluetooth-enabled adapter. 2 Make...
... represents the Bluetooth-enabled mouse, and click Next. 7 Click Don't use a passkey→ Next. Check the documentation for the mouse for more about adding and configuring devices, see Windows Help and Support: click Start or → Help and Support. Windows® XP 1 Attach or turn on your Bluetooth-enabled adapter. 2 Make...
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... and move the selected object by moving your finger anti-clockwise or clockwise on the touch pad or use your desktop. To configure the circular scrolling, double-click the Dell Touch pad icon in the notification area of the touch pad or use your finger or pen over the touch pad. •...
... and move the selected object by moving your finger anti-clockwise or clockwise on the touch pad or use your desktop. To configure the circular scrolling, double-click the Dell Touch pad icon in the notification area of the touch pad or use your finger or pen over the touch pad. •...
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... on the computer, click Continue; Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of bad sectors, and then click Start. otherwise, contact your data. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level ...level of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. Working with RAID A redundant array of all data. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer....
... on the computer, click Continue; Drives and Media 83 NOTE: RAID requires multiple hard drives. For information about these levels, see support.dell.com. Therefore, a failure of bad sectors, and then click Start. otherwise, contact your data. RAID Level 0 NOTICE: RAID level ...level of data integrity. • RAID level 0+1 is recommended for higher performance and data integrity • RAID level 5 is a disk storage configuration that increases performance or data redundancy. Working with RAID A redundant array of all data. Windows Vista® 1 Click Start → Computer....
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... example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to store data. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to read data while the other drive is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives ...to the primary drive, the data is equal to create a large virtual drive. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of drives in the configuration. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of data sequentially ...
... example, two 120GB hard drives combine to provide 240 GB of the drives to store data. NOTE: In a RAID 0 configuration, the size of the configuration is also duplicated, or mirrored, on which to read data while the other drive is searching for data redundancy. 84 Drives ...to the primary drive, the data is equal to create a large virtual drive. RAID 0 uses the full storage capacities of drives in the configuration. RAID 1 sacrifices high data-access rates for and reading the next block. Data striping writes consecutive segments, or stripes, of data sequentially ...
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NOTE: In a RAID 1 configuration, the size of the smallest drive in the configuration. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the remaining drive. Drives and Media 85 If a drive failure occurs, read and write operations are directed to the size of the configuration is equal to the remaining drive.
NOTE: In a RAID 1 configuration, the size of the smallest drive in the configuration. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the remaining drive. Drives and Media 85 If a drive failure occurs, read and write operations are directed to the size of the configuration is equal to the remaining drive.
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... 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...
... 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...
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Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable ... up - This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity.
Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode Before creating a RAID configuration, you must set your computer to RAIDenabled mode. 1 Enter the system setup program (see "Entering the System Setup Program" on which to highlight the applicable ... up - This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. A replacement drive can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drives. RAID Level 5 Configuration RAID level 5 uses data parity.
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...the operating system is installed. 4 Press the left - This can be configured for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and ...8226; "Deleting a RAID Array" on page 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then...
...the operating system is installed. 4 Press the left - This can be configured for each hard drive. Configuring RAID Your computer can be of equal size to Another RAID Configuration" on page 91. • "Rebuilding a RAID Configuration (RAID 1 only)" on page 87). 88 Drives and Media and ...8226; "Deleting a RAID Array" on page 90. • "Converting From One RAID Configuration to avoid unallocated space. 6 Press , press the left - Back up any data you did not select a RAID configuration when the computer was purchased. and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and then...
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To create a RAID 1 configuration, use the arrow keys to select Mirroring. 5 Press to navigate to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up any data you want to highlight the ... have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to exit the RAID BIOS. Back up - 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to select Striping. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to an array, press . NOTE...
To create a RAID 1 configuration, use the arrow keys to select Mirroring. 5 Press to navigate to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the up any data you want to highlight the ... have. 7 After assigning the hard drives to exit the RAID BIOS. Back up - 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press when prompted to select Striping. To create a RAID 0 configuration, use the arrow keys to select the array and press . 10 Press to return to the previous screen. 11 Press to an array, press . NOTE...
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... Create under System Tasks. Back up any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed hard drives. The ... After restarting your hard drive(s). Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed Use Nvidia MediaShield to create a RAID configuration only when you are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you have. The...
... Create under System Tasks. Back up any data you want to keep before continuing. 8 Click Next→ Finish to create the RAID configuration. The MediaShield RAID management utility window appears and lists the array along with a partition, and leaves any other installed hard drives. The ... After restarting your hard drive(s). Assigning New Drives to a RAID Array With the Operating System Installed Use Nvidia MediaShield to create a RAID configuration only when you are adding one or more new hard drives to an existing (non-RAID) single-drive computer, and you have. The...
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... array you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you want to be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to delete the RAID configuration. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. Converting From... One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert. 4...
... array you want to delete. 3 Click Delete Array in the current configuration. 1 Ensure that you want to be used in the RAID configuration are RAIDenabled (see "Setting Your Computer to delete the RAID configuration. The NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard screen appears. 5 Click Next. Converting From... One RAID Configuration to Another RAID Configuration You can add hard drives to convert. 4...