System Setup Categories; Time; Date; Diskette Drive A And Diskette Drive B - Dell Precision 400 User Manual

S
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 in 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 in
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(s) of diskette drive(s) installed in your computer.
The standard configuration for this system is one 3.5-inch
diskette drive installed at the top of the drive cage. This
drive is designated Diskette Drive A and is normally the
only diskette drive in the computer.
If you install a second diskette drive, it is normally desig-
nated as Diskette Drive B.
The options are:
•
5.25 Inch, 360 KB
•
5.25 Inch, 1.2 MB
•
3.5 Inch 720 KB
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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 dis-
kette drive and set the Diskette Drive B category to Not
Installed.

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").
For both the Primary and the Secondary drive sections,
the Drive 0 and Drive 1 categories identify the type of
EIDE hard-disk drives installed in the computer. For each
drive, seven parameters can be chosen as a group by
drive-type number, entered individually from the key-
board 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
•
None
•
Usr1 or Usr2
•
A specific drive-type number
NOTES: The Primary and Secondary drive sections iden-
tify only EIDE drives. If a drive other than an EIDE drive
is installed, the corresponding category in the Primary
and Secondary drive sections should be set to None.
Operating systems that bypass the system BIOS may not
obtain optimum hard-disk drive performance.