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A specific drive-type number
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To choose a setting for each option, press <Enter> to access the field's pop-up settings menu. Then type characters from the keyboard
or press the left- or right-arrow key to cycle through the settings.
A drive-type number specifies the parameters of a hard drive, based on a table recorded in the system's basic input/output system
(BIOS).
NOTE: Operating systems that bypass the system BIOS may not obtain optimum hard drive performance.
If You Have a Problem
If the system generates a drive error message the first time you boot your system after you install an EIDE drive, it may mean that your
particular drive does not work with the automatic drive-type detect feature. If you suspect that your problem is related to drive type, try
entering your drive-type information in one of the following ways:
If you know the drive-type number
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Use the drive-type number found in the documentation that came with the drive, or if the drive was installed by
Dell when you purchased your system, access the Manufacturing Test Report from the Dell Accessories
folder.
To set the drive-type number in system setup, highlight the appropriate drive option (Primary Drive 0 or
Primary Drive 1) and type the correct drive-type number. If you prefer, you can press the right- or left-arrow key
to increase or decrease, respectively, the drive-type number until the correct one is displayed.
If you do not know the drive-type number
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The Drive 0 and Drive 1 options display the following parameters for each drive:
- Drive Type is the drive-type number for the selected hard drive.
- Capacity (automatically calculated by the system) indicates the number of millions of bytes of storage
provided by the drive.
- Cylinders is the number of logical cylinders.
- Heads indicates the number of logical heads in the drive.
- Sectors indicates the number of logical sectors per track.
If none of the supported drive types match the parameters of your new drive, you can enter your own parameters. To do so, highlight the
Drive 0 option and type u to display User 1. You can then press the right- or left-arrow key to switch between the User 1 and User 2
settings (only two user-defined drive types are allowed). Then press the <Tab> key to highlight each of the parameter fields in
succession, and enter the appropriate number for each field.
NOTE: You can use the User 1 and User 2 drive types for both the Primary and Secondary Drive 0 and Drive 1 options. However, if
you select the User 1 or User 2 drive type, you may not obtain optimum hard drive performance. Also, you cannot use the User 1 and
User 2 drive types for hard drives with a storage capacity that is greater than 528 megabytes (MB).
Remote Wake Up allows you to set the Remote Wake Up feature to On or Off. You must reboot your system before a change takes effect.
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Report Keyboard Errors enables or disables reporting of keyboard errors during the power-on self-test (POST), which is a series of tests
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that the system performs on the hardware each time you turn on the system or press the reset button.
This option is useful when applied to self-starting servers or host systems that have no permanently attached keyboard. In these
situations, selecting Do Not Report suppresses all error messages relating to the keyboard or to the keyboard controller during
POST. This setting does not affect the operation of the keyboard itself if a keyboard is attached to the computer.
System Data The following information about the system is displayed in the system data area of the system setup screen:
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The microprocessor type and BIOS level.
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The size of the integrated level 2 (L2) cache.
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The system's five-character service tag number, which was programmed into NVRAM by Dell during the manufacturing process.
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Refer to this number during technical assistance or service calls. The service tag number is also accessed by certain Dell
support software, including the diagnostics software.
System Date resets the date on the computer's internal calendar.
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Your system automatically displays the day of the week corresponding to the settings in the month, day-of-month, and year fields.
To change the date, press the left- or right-arrow key to select a field, and then press plus (+) or minus (–) to increase or decrease the
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