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Starting the rcu, Main menu – Dell PowerEdge 4400 User Manual

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Starting the RCU

If you are running the RCU from your hard-disk drive, remove any terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs from memory before starting the
utility. These programs take up space in system memory even when they are not running, thus reducing the amount of memory available to the
RCU. See the documentation that accompanied these programs for instructions on removing them from memory.

If you start the utility and there is not enough memory to run it, a message is displayed. If you receive such a message, run the utility from a diskette.

Perform the following steps the first time you use the RCU. Later, if a card is added, removed, or repositioned, you must follow the procedure
described in "

Step 2: Add or Remove Boards

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1. To run the program from a diskette, insert the RCU diskette that you created from the CD into drive A. Then either turn on your computer or

reboot it by pressing the key combination or the reset button.

To run the program from your hard-disk drive, switch to the c:\rcu subdirectory, type sd at the operating system prompt, and press .

To run the program from the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD, restart the system from the CD. Select Run RCU from the CD's main
menu.

2. When the Welcome screen appears, read the information on the screen and press .


The Main Menu appears:

Main Menu

Learn about configuring your computer

Configure computer

Set date

Set time

Maintain system configuration diskette

Exit from this utility

The first option in the menu is already highlighted.

3. Press to read the online overview of the RCU.


After reading the online overview, you are ready to use the program to configure your computer for any PCI expansion cards currently
installed.

Main Menu

The following sections describe each of the menu options in the Main Menu and the submenus for those options.

Learn About Configuring Your Computer

The Learn about configuring your computer option presents an overview of the configuration process. As you finish reading a screen, press
to view the next screen. Press to return to the Main Menu.

Configure Computer

The Configure computer option takes you through the configuration process step by step. Use this option the first time you configure your system
and every time you change your configuration through the RCU.

When you select Configure computer, the following menu appears on the screen:

Steps in configuring your computer

Step 1: Important resource configuration information

Step 2: Add or remove boards

Step 3: View or edit details

Step 4: Examine switches or print report

Step 5: Save and exit

Step 1: Important Resource Configuration Information

The Step 1: Important resource configuration information option uses seven information screens to explain the configuration process. After
you read the first screen, press to see the next one. When you finish reading all seven screens, press to return to the Steps in
configuring your computer
menu.

To review the information screens at any time while you are in the RCU, press and select Resource Configuration from the Help menu.

Step 2: Add or Remove Boards