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... Standby Mode 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID 43 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Option ROM Utility 44 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 45...
... Standby Mode 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID 43 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Option ROM Utility 44 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 45...
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Drive Problems 60 Optical drive problems 61 Hard drive problems 62 E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems 62 Error Messages 64 Keyboard Problems 66 Lockups and Software Problems 66 The computer does not start up ...
Drive Problems 60 Optical drive problems 61 Hard drive problems 62 E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems 62 Error Messages 64 Keyboard Problems 66 Lockups and Software Problems 66 The computer does not start up ...
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... 80 4 Troubleshooting Tools 81 Power Lights 81 Beep Codes 82 System Messages 84 Dell Diagnostics 86 When to Use the Dell Diagnostics 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media 87 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 87 Drivers 89 What Is a Driver 89 Identifying Drivers 90...
... 80 4 Troubleshooting Tools 81 Power Lights 81 Beep Codes 82 System Messages 84 Dell Diagnostics 86 When to Use the Dell Diagnostics 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media 87 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 87 Drivers 89 What Is a Driver 89 Identifying Drivers 90...
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... 112 Installing Memory 113 Removing Memory 115 Cards 116 PCI and PCI Express Cards 116 Bezel 123 Removing the Bezel 123 Replacing the Bezel 125 Drives 126 Recommended Drive Cable Connections . . . . . 127 Connecting Drive Cables 127 Drive Interface Connectors 127 Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . 128 Hard Drives 128 Floppy Drive 134 Media Card Reader 140 Optical...
... 112 Installing Memory 113 Removing Memory 115 Cards 116 PCI and PCI Express Cards 116 Bezel 123 Removing the Bezel 123 Replacing the Bezel 125 Drives 126 Recommended Drive Cable Connections . . . . . 127 Connecting Drive Cables 127 Drive Interface Connectors 127 Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . 128 Hard Drives 128 Floppy Drive 134 Media Card Reader 140 Optical...
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... white papers • Downloads - Finding Information 13 components, such as memory, the hard drive, and the operating system • Customer Care - Find it Here • Solutions - DSS is necessary for correct operation of your 5 Under Select a Device, scroll to support.dell.com and click Downloads. 2 Enter your Service Tag or product model. 3 In...
... white papers • Downloads - Finding Information 13 components, such as memory, the hard drive, and the operating system • Customer Care - Find it Here • Solutions - DSS is necessary for correct operation of your 5 Under Select a Device, scroll to support.dell.com and click Downloads. 2 Enter your Service Tag or product model. 3 In...
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Instead, perform an operating system shutdown. The drive activity light is operating. The light might also be on when a device such as a CD player is on when the computer reads data from or writes data to turn off the computer. Setting Up and Using Your Computer 17 The light in the center of this button indicates power state. 13 power button, power light 14 drive activity light Press the power button to the hard drive. NOTICE: To avoid losing data, do not use the power button to turn on page 172 for more information. See "Controls and Lights" on the computer.
Instead, perform an operating system shutdown. The drive activity light is operating. The light might also be on when a device such as a CD player is on when the computer reads data from or writes data to turn off the computer. Setting Up and Using Your Computer 17 The light in the center of this button indicates power state. 13 power button, power light 14 drive activity light Press the power button to the hard drive. NOTICE: To avoid losing data, do not use the power button to turn on page 172 for more information. See "Controls and Lights" on the computer.
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...that you have created automatically ejects. When prompted, insert a blank CD or DVD into the drive and click OK. • If you have two CD/DVD drives, select the drive into which you have inserted your computer hard drive. After you create a DVD+/-R disc, you cannot write to that CD-R again (see the... store large amounts of the disc creation process. Using Blank CDs and DVDs CD-RW drives can write to CD recording media only (including high-speed CD-RW media), while DVD-writable drives can be able to write to that disc again if the disc is finalized or closed...
...that you have created automatically ejects. When prompted, insert a blank CD or DVD into the drive and click OK. • If you have two CD/DVD drives, select the drive into which you have inserted your computer hard drive. After you create a DVD+/-R disc, you cannot write to that CD-R again (see the... store large amounts of the disc creation process. Using Blank CDs and DVDs CD-RW drives can write to CD recording media only (including high-speed CD-RW media), while DVD-writable drives can be able to write to that disc again if the disc is finalized or closed...
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... your computer uses when it was in prior to entering standby mode. Standby Mode Standby mode conserves power by turning off the display and the hard drive after a designated period of the S-video cable to your operating system. When a Windows XP Professional computer is on the primary monitor. 2...related to the entire computer. When the computer exits from one screen to support.dell.com. The Microsoft® Windows® desktop displays on and you can reduce power to just the monitor or the hard drive, or you connect the monitor(s) or TV, turn on changing the display ...
... your computer uses when it was in prior to entering standby mode. Standby Mode Standby mode conserves power by turning off the display and the hard drive after a designated period of the S-video cable to your operating system. When a Windows XP Professional computer is on the primary monitor. 2...related to the entire computer. When the computer exits from one screen to support.dell.com. The Microsoft® Windows® desktop displays on and you can reduce power to just the monitor or the hard drive, or you connect the monitor(s) or TV, turn on changing the display ...
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... mode: 1 Click Start→ Control Panel→ Pick a category→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Power Options. 3 Define your hard drive with enough disk space to store the contents of hibernation. To set standby mode to automatically activate after a defined period of inactivity, click Start→...Stand by copying system data to a reserved area on the keyboard or moving the mouse does not bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to you.
... mode: 1 Click Start→ Control Panel→ Pick a category→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Power Options. 3 Define your hard drive with enough disk space to store the contents of hibernation. To set standby mode to automatically activate after a defined period of inactivity, click Start→...Stand by copying system data to a reserved area on the keyboard or moving the mouse does not bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to you.
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The settings for starting standby mode, hibernate mode, turning off the monitor, and turning off the hard drive. To recover, press any key on the keyboard or click the mouse. If you want to use for extended periods of the standard Windows schemes ... to run without interruption (using no power conservation. • Home/Office Desk - NOTICE: If you want to time-out before the hard drive. To avoid this problem, always set the hard drive to select one of time. Power Options Properties Define your power settings on the Power Schemes tab, Advanced tab, and Hibernate tab...
The settings for starting standby mode, hibernate mode, turning off the monitor, and turning off the hard drive. To recover, press any key on the keyboard or click the mouse. If you want to use for extended periods of the standard Windows schemes ... to run without interruption (using no power conservation. • Home/Office Desk - NOTICE: If you want to time-out before the hard drive. To avoid this problem, always set the hard drive to select one of time. Power Options Properties Define your power settings on the Power Schemes tab, Advanced tab, and Hibernate tab...
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... in the Turn off monitor, Turn off " state to standby mode or you can reduce power to just the monitor or the hard drive, and Windows Vista sets the default "off hard disks, System stand by, or System hibernates field, and then select a time-out from the corresponding dropdown menu and click OK...
... in the Turn off monitor, Turn off " state to standby mode or you can reduce power to just the monitor or the hard drive, and Windows Vista sets the default "off hard disks, System stand by, or System hibernates field, and then select a time-out from the corresponding dropdown menu and click OK...
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... mode, it entered standby mode. The top option, Dell Recommended, is the currently active plan.To display additional power plans, click the arrow at the bottom of our customers. To exit from standby mode, press a key on the hard drive and resumes to the same state you lose power,... desktop is restored to the state it was in before it to the hard drive. Windows Vista has three main default power management modes: • Balanced • Power Saver • High Performance Dell has added a fourth, Dell-Recommended mode that sets power management to Help and Support and search for ...
... mode, it entered standby mode. The top option, Dell Recommended, is the currently active plan.To display additional power plans, click the arrow at the bottom of our customers. To exit from standby mode, press a key on the hard drive and resumes to the same state you lose power,... desktop is restored to the state it was in before it to the hard drive. Windows Vista has three main default power management modes: • Balanced • Power Saver • High Performance Dell has added a fourth, Dell-Recommended mode that sets power management to Help and Support and search for ...
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...system data to a reserved area on the keyboard or moving the mouse does not bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to you can define standby mode settings, display mode settings, hibernate...and the mouse do not function when the computer is enabled. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows Vista recreates the hibernate file automatically. Because hibernate mode requires a special file on your hard drive with enough disk space to the right) beside the lock icon. 2 Select Hibernate...
...system data to a reserved area on the keyboard or moving the mouse does not bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to you can define standby mode settings, display mode settings, hibernate...and the mouse do not function when the computer is enabled. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows Vista recreates the hibernate file automatically. Because hibernate mode requires a special file on your hard drive with enough disk space to the right) beside the lock icon. 2 Select Hibernate...
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...and audio. When data is present, then that drive cannot be used as "mirroring." Dell offers RAID level 1 for its Vostro computers. A RAID level 1 configuration sacrifices high data access rates for its data redundancy advantages. If a third drive is written to ensure that you might have selected... the Intel RAID configuration program, although it is recommended for RAID level 1 segment 1 segment 2 segment 3 segment 4 segment 5 segment 6 hard drive 1 segment 1 duplicated segment 2 duplicated segment 3 duplicated segment 4 duplicated segment 5 duplicated segment 6 duplicated...
...and audio. When data is present, then that drive cannot be used as "mirroring." Dell offers RAID level 1 for its Vostro computers. A RAID level 1 configuration sacrifices high data access rates for its data redundancy advantages. If a third drive is written to ensure that you might have selected... the Intel RAID configuration program, although it is recommended for RAID level 1 segment 1 segment 2 segment 3 segment 4 segment 5 segment 6 hard drive 1 segment 1 duplicated segment 2 duplicated segment 3 duplicated segment 4 duplicated segment 5 duplicated segment 6 duplicated...
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...-GB on which to RAIDenabled mode before you install the operating system onto the hard drive. A replacement drive can use one of the configuration is performed after you begin. Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID At some point you may want to RAID-enabled mode before starting...Option ROM utility, and is duplicated on page 128. Setting Your Computer to install a hard drive, see "Hard Drives" on both drives, two 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have at least two hard drives installed in your computer to set your computer to configure your computer to store data....
...-GB on which to RAIDenabled mode before you install the operating system onto the hard drive. A replacement drive can use one of the configuration is performed after you begin. Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID At some point you may want to RAID-enabled mode before starting...Option ROM utility, and is duplicated on page 128. Setting Your Computer to install a hard drive, see "Hard Drives" on both drives, two 120-GB RAID level 1 drives collectively have at least two hard drives installed in your computer to set your computer to configure your computer to store data....
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... (see "Migrating to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 47). 2 Use the up - NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have a two-hard drive computer configured into a RAID volume without losing the existing operating system and any data, you want to configure the two new... the Intel Option ROM utility. Setting Up and Using Your Computer 45 and down -arrow keys to add a second hard drive and reconfigure both drives into an array, but you still have one hard drive with the operating system installed on it, and you already have some space left on page 43). Configuring for RAID...
... (see "Migrating to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 47). 2 Use the up - NOTE: If you do not see an Actions menu option, you have a two-hard drive computer configured into a RAID volume without losing the existing operating system and any data, you want to configure the two new... the Intel Option ROM utility. Setting Up and Using Your Computer 45 and down -arrow keys to add a second hard drive and reconfigure both drives into an array, but you still have one hard drive with the operating system installed on it, and you already have some space left on page 43). Configuring for RAID...
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...click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use to create your RAID 1 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Available box, click the right-arrow button to move the highlighted ...RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 Launch the ...
...click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use to create your RAID 1 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Available box, click the right-arrow button to move the highlighted ...RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 Launch the ...
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... Using Your Computer 47 You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to make changes. Creating a Spare Hard Drive A spare hard drive may be recognized by the operating system, but you want to maintain on the RAID volume as the RAID level. The spare...the default. 6 From the drop-down box, select RAID 1 as your source hard drive. 7 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from within Disk Manager or the Intel Option ROM Utility. NOTE: Select the hard drive that already has the data or operating system files that you have not yet ...
... Using Your Computer 47 You can use your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to make changes. Creating a Spare Hard Drive A spare hard drive may be recognized by the operating system, but you want to maintain on the RAID volume as the RAID level. The spare...the default. 6 From the drop-down box, select RAID 1 as your source hard drive. 7 On the Select Source Hard Drive screen, double-click the hard drive from within Disk Manager or the Intel Option ROM Utility. NOTE: Select the hard drive that already has the data or operating system files that you have not yet ...
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...; All Programs→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: You can use your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has reported a degraded RAID 1 volume, you want to Non-RAID. When a member of the RAID 1 array is... can manually rebuild the computer's redundancy mirror to this Disk. To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive: 1 Right-click the spare hard drive icon. 2 Click Reset Hard Drive to mark as a spare hard drive. 3 Click Mark as the broken member's replacement. Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume If your computer...
...; All Programs→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console. NOTE: You can use your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has reported a degraded RAID 1 volume, you want to Non-RAID. When a member of the RAID 1 array is... can manually rebuild the computer's redundancy mirror to this Disk. To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive: 1 Right-click the spare hard drive icon. 2 Click Reset Hard Drive to mark as a spare hard drive. 3 Click Mark as the broken member's replacement. Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume If your computer...
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... Vista™ • Click the Windows Vista Start button and click Computer. See "System Setup" on page 86. 60 Solving Problems If the drive is defective. • Insert bootable media and restart the computer. C L E A N T H E D R I V E O R D I N T H E S YS T E M S E T U P P R O G R A M - ...Product Information Guide. R U N T H E D E L L D I A G N O S T I C S - See "Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive" on page 174) TEST THE DRIVE - • Insert another floppy disk, CD, or DVD to eliminate the possibility that the original one is not listed, perform a full...
... Vista™ • Click the Windows Vista Start button and click Computer. See "System Setup" on page 86. 60 Solving Problems If the drive is defective. • Insert bootable media and restart the computer. C L E A N T H E D R I V E O R D I N T H E S YS T E M S E T U P P R O G R A M - ...Product Information Guide. R U N T H E D E L L D I A G N O S T I C S - See "Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive" on page 174) TEST THE DRIVE - • Insert another floppy disk, CD, or DVD to eliminate the possibility that the original one is not listed, perform a full...