Dell OptiPlex GXi, Reference And Installation Manual

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Midsize Systems Reference and Installation Guide
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ystem Setup Categories
The following subsections explain in detail each of the
categories on the System Setup screens.
Time
TIME
resets the time on the computer’s internal clock.
Time is kept in a 24-hour format ( hours : minutes : sec-
onds ). To change the time, press the right-arrow key to
increase the number in the highlighted field or press the
left-arrow key to decrease the number. If you prefer, you
can type numbers in each of the appropriate fields.
Date
DATE
resets the date on the computer’s internal calendar.
Your system automatically displays the day of the week
corresponding to the settings in the three fields that fol-
low (
month , day-of-month , and year ).
To change the date, press the right-arrow key to increase
the number in the highlighted field or press the left-arrow
key to decrease the number. If you prefer, you can type
numbers in the
month and day-of-month fields.
Diskette Drive A and Diskette Drive B
DISKETTE DRIVE A
and
DISKETTE DRIVE B
identify the
type of diskette drives installed in your computer. With
the standard cabling configuration,
DISKETTE DRIVE A
(the boot diskette drive) is the 3.5-inch diskette drive
installed in the top externally accessible drive bay.
If you install a second diskette drive, it must be a
5.25-inch drive located in one of the two lower bays of
the drive cage. A second drive is normally designated as
DISKETTE DRIVE B
. To reverse the drive designations, see
the next subsection, “Drive A Location.”
The category options always match the physical locations
of the drives in your computer—the first drive listed on
Page 1 of the System Setup screens is the top drive in
your computer. The options are:
•
5.25 INCH, 360 KB
•
5.25 INCH, 1.2 MB
•
3.5 INCH, 720 KB
•
3.5 INCH, 1.44 MB
•
NOT INSTALLED
NOTE: Tape drives are not reflected in the
DISKETTE DRIVE
A
and
DISKETTE DRIVE B
categories. For example, if you have a
single diskette drive and a tape drive attached to the diskette/
tape drive interface cable, set the
DISKETTE DRIVE A
category to
match the characteristics of the diskette drive and set the
DIS-
KETTE DRIVE B
category to
NOT INSTALLED
.
Drive A Location
DRIVE A LOCATION
identifies which diskette drive—
TOP
(the default option) or
BOTTOM
(if existing)—is used as
drive A, the boot drive.
The letters A and B in the categories
DISKETTE DRIVE A
and
DISKETTE DRIVE B
are switched automatically when
DRIVE A LOCATION
is changed to reflect the new
configuration.
If an external diskette drive controller is being used,
DRIVE A LOCATION
becomes a nonselectable category.
Drives: Primary and Secondary
PRIMARY
identifies drives attached to the primary
enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) interface
connector (labeled “IDE1”) on the system board;
SEC-
ONDARY
identifies drives connected to the secondary
EIDE interface connector (labeled “IDE2”). It is recom-
mended that you use the secondary EIDE interface
connector for EIDE CD-ROM and EIDE tape drives.
NOTES: For all EIDE devices from Dell that use the
built-in EIDE controller, set the appropriate
DRIVE
cate-
gory to
AUTO
.
You must have an EIDE device connected to the primary
EIDE interface if you have an EIDE device connected to
the secondary EIDE interface.
For both the
PRIMARY
and the
SECONDARY
drive sections,
the
DRIVE 0
and
DRIVE 1
categories identify the type of EIDE
devices installed in the computer. For each drive, seven param-
eters can be chosen as a group by drive-type number,
entered
individually from the keyboard or set automatically. A
drive-
type number specifies the parameters of a hard-disk drive based
on a table recorded in the system’s BIOS.
To choose a setting for these categories, type characters
from the keyboard or use the left- or right-arrow key to
cycle through the choices. The options are:
•
AUTO
(use this setting for all EIDE devices from
Dell)
•
NONE