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NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. If you purchased a Dell™ n Series computer, any references in this document to Microsoft® Windows® operating systems are not applicable. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, Inspiron, Dell Precision, Dimension, OptiPlex, Latitude, PowerEdge, PowerVault, and PowerApp are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation; Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own. Model WHL November 2005 P/N HC098 Rev. A03 Contents Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1 Setting Up and Using Your Computer Opening the Drive Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Changing the Front-Panel Light Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using a Media Card Reader (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a Monitor to a PCI Express Graphics Card Dual Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Changing the Display Settings to Support Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . 20 About Serial ATA Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About Your RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 RAID Level 0 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 RAID Level 1 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Creating an Array using the Nvidia MediaShield ROM Utility . . . . . . . 23 Using Nvidia MediaShield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Playing CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Playing a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Adjusting the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Copying CDs and DVDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 How to Copy a CD or DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using Blank CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Network Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Contents Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Standby Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Hibernate Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Power Options Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2 Optimizing Performance Hyper-Threading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 PCI Express Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 NVIDIA SLI Dual Graphics Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Battery Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 CD and DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The computer does not start up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . ...
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