System Setup Categories; Time; Date; Diskette Drive A And Diskette Drive B - Dell OptiPlex GXi Reference And Installation Manual

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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 form-factor drive located in one of the three
bays of the drive cage. A second drive is normally desig-
nated 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:
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5.25 Inch, 360 KB
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5.25 Inch, 1.2 MB
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3.5 Inch, 720 KB
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3.5 Inch, 1.44 MB
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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.

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 switch places 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 recommended
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 parameters can be chosen as a group by drive-type
number, entered individually from the keyboard, or set
automatically. A drive-type number specifies the parame-
ters of a hard-disk drive based on a table recorded in the
system's BIOS.