Dell Inspiron 600m Owner's Manual page 137

Performing a One-Time Boot
You can set a one-time-only boot sequence without entering the system
setup program. (You can also use this procedure to boot the Dell
Diagnostics on the diagnostics utility partition on your hard drive.)
Shut down the computer.
1
Connect the computer to an electrical outlet.
2
Turn on the computer. When the DELL logo appears, press
3
immediately. If you wait too long and the Windows logo appears,
continue to wait until you see the Windows desktop. Then shut down
your computer and try again.
When the boot device list appears, highlight the device from which
4
you want to boot and press
The computer boots to the selected device.
The next time you reboot the computer, the normal boot order is restored.
Changing Printer Modes
Set the Parallel Mode option according to the type of printer or device
connected to the parallel connector. To determine the correct mode to use,
see the documentation that came with the device.
Setting Parallel Mode to Disabled disables the parallel port and the port's
LPT address, freeing its interrupt for another device to use.
Changing COM Ports
Serial Port allows you to map the serial port COM address or disable the
serial port and its address, freeing its interrupt for another device to use.
Enabling the Infrared Sensor
Enter the system setup program:
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a Turn on your computer.
b Press when the DELL logo appears.
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