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Owner's Manual - Page 6

... headphones 75 Video and Monitor Problems 76 If the screen is blank 76 If the screen is difficult to read 77 3 Troubleshooting Tools 79 Power Lights 79 Beep Codes 80 System Messages 82 Dell Diagnostics 84 When to Use the Dell Diagnostics 84 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive 84 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From...

Owner's Manual - Page 13

.... DSS is necessary for components, such as memory, the hard drive, and the operating system • Customer Care - operation of your computer, you reinstall the operating system 1 Go to support.dell.com and click Drivers for your region to System and Configuration Utilities→ Dell Desktop System Software and click Download Now. your computer and...

Owner's Manual - Page 16

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Owner's Manual - Page 36

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Owner's Manual - Page 39

...When the computer exits from a power conservation mode (Standby or Hibernate), the Windows desktop is also a show additional plans arrow underneath the three power plans. Setting Up...Performance Dell has added a fourth, Dell-Recommended mode that sets power management to the most typical settings for Windows Vista. Windows Vista sets Standby as the default off the display and the hard drive ...

Owner's Manual - Page 40

...out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before it may mask Hibernate from standby mode, press a key on the hard drive and then completely turning off... Hibernate from hibernate mode, the desktop is in before shipping the computer to a reserved area on the keyboard or move the mouse. NOTICE: If your hard drive with enough disk space to store...

Owner's Manual - Page 45

... Clear disk data prompt appears. For an explanation of RAID levels and their requirements, see the Microsoft Windows desktop, then shut down -arrow keys to select a hard drive to include in the RAID array and then use the arrow keys to select Mirroring. 5 Press to navigate to the Free Disks field. 6 Use the...

Owner's Manual - Page 56

..." on page 172. Windows Vista®: Click Start and click Computer. See "System Setup" on page 91. See "Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive" on page 179. If the floppy, CD, or DVD drive, is defective. • Insert bootable media and restart the computer. ENSURE THAT MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® RECOGNIZES THE...

Owner's Manual - Page 67

...: Before you begin any open files and exit any of memory supported by your computer, see "Memory" on page 113) to see "Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive" on page 112). • Your computer supports DDR2 memory. For more information about the type of the procedures in this section, follow the...

Owner's Manual - Page 83

...). A PARAMETER OUT OF RANGE MAY OR MAY NOT INDICATE A POTENTIAL HARD DRIVE PROBLEM. - Troubleshooting Tools 83 N O T I M E R T I C K I S K E R R O R - NOTICE - DELL RECOMMENDS THAT YOU BACK UP YOUR DATA REGULARLY. No bootable partition on the system board might be enabled or disabled in the drive. • If the hard drive is your computer. A chip on HDD or Not a bootable floppy...

Owner's Manual - Page 84

... diagnostic utility partition on page 172 to review your hard drive. Starting the Dell Diagnostics From Your Hard Drive The Dell Diagnostics is connected to an electrical outlet that no diagnostics utility ...desktop; When to wait until you see a message stating that is active. NOTICE: The Dell Diagnostics works only on page 62) and run the Dell Diagnostics from the boot menu and press . Dell...

Owner's Manual - Page 90

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Owner's Manual - Page 92

... 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 Windows Vista) restore your hard drive to the operating state it to restore your computer to an earlier operating state without affecting...

Owner's Manual - Page 99

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Owner's Manual - Page 172

... your computer (see the Microsoft® Windows® desktop. Certain changes can appear very quickly, so you must watch for this...DELL™ logo is recommended that the keyboard has initialized. If you press before you are an expert computer user, do not change a user-selectable option such as the user password • To read the current amount of memory or set the type of hard drive...

Owner's Manual - Page 182

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Owner's Manual - Page 193

... equipment. extended PC Card - A PC Card that includes special circuitry for hard drives and CD drives. DVD+RW drive - ECP - extended capabilities port - EIDE - enhanced integrated device electronics ... 2.0 standard. Use the Express Service Code when contacting Dell for digital transmission between a computer and a digital video display. A display setting that installs in an expansion slot...

Owner's Manual - Page 197

...resolution used for integrated peripherals, such as RAM, ROM, and video memory. MB - MB/sec - A bay that allows your...such as communication NICs. When used as optical drives, a second battery, or a Dell TravelLite™ module. media bay - A ... Mini PCI - The Mini-Card is used to refer to hard drive storage, the term is functionally equivalent to the system board. modem...

Owner's Manual - Page 201

...desktop and doubleclick the icon, you delete a shortcut, the original file is embedded with most Windows software packages. Reinforced area of files. Network connections cannot be protected by acting as those that protects the hard drive... could degrade the quality of video memory installed in phones or portable computers. Also, you call Dell for customer service or technical ...

Owner's Manual - Page 210

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