System Setup Options - Dell Dimension 1100 Owner's Manual

System Setup Options

NOTE:
Depending on your computer and installed devices, the items listed in this section may not appear, or may
not appear exactly as listed.
System
System Time
System Date
Drive Configuration
Diskette Drive
Primary Master
Drive
Primary Slave
Drive
Secondary Master
Drive
Secondary Slave
Drive
IDE Drive UDMA
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence
84
Appendix
Identifies the system clock time as formatted.
Identifies the date as formatted: Weekday Month
Identifies and defines the floppy drive attached to the FLOPPY connector
on the system board as Off, USB, Internal, or Read Only.
Identifies the drive attached to the PRI IDE connectors on the system
board, and lists the capacity for a hard drive.
Identifies and defines the slave drive to the primary master drive on PRI
IDE. Can be turned Off or set to Auto (to detect the drive) and if present,
lists the capacity for the drive.
Identifies the drive attached to the SEC IDE connectors on the system
board, and lists the capacity for a hard drive (lists n/a for optical devices
such as CD/DVD drives).
Identifies and defines the slave drive to the secondary master drive on SEC
IDE. Can be turned Off or set to Auto (to detect the drive) and if present,
lists the capacity for the drives (lists n/a for optical devices such as CD/DVD
drives).
Identifies whether or not to enable UDMA (the Ultra Direct Memory
Access mass storage interface).
Identifies the device types that are in first and second priority for booting
the system.
• System BIOS - devices such as hard drives and CD/DVD ROMs as listed in
the Boot Sequence section of this System Setup program
• USB device - a device such as an external hard drive or USB memory key
By default, System BIOS boot devices is first (in position 1), followed by
USB device. To change the order, select an option and press the + or - key
to move the selection up or down in priority.
NOTE:
If you insert a boot device and restart the computer, this option appears
in the system setup menu. To boot from a USB memory device, select the USB
device and move it so it becomes the first device in the list.