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Dell OptiPlex Gxi User Manual

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System Setup Program

A-3

Table A-1. System Setup Categories

Category

Function

Time

Resets time on computer’s internal clock.

Date

Resets date on computer’s internal calendar.

Diskette Drive A
Diskette Drive B

Identifies type of diskette drives installed. Cat-
egory options always match physical locations
of drives in computer. Tape drives are not
reflected in these categories.

Drive A Location

Identifies which diskette drive is used as the
boot drive.

Drives:
Primary
Secondary

Identifies drives attached to the IDE1 and
IDE2 connectors on system board. Each EIDE
connector supports two EIDE drives (Drive 0
and Drive 1).

For EIDE hard-disk drives, the system pro-
vides an automatic drive-type detect
feature. To use this feature, highlight the
appropriate Drive category and type

a

(for

automatic).

If none of the supported drive types matches
the parameters of the new drive, enter parame-
ters directly. To do so, highlight the appropriate
Drive

category (Drive 0 or Drive 1) and type

u

to display User1. Press

<

Tab

>

to highlight each

of the parameter fields in succession, and enter
the appropriate number for each field.

NOTE: For EIDE devices such as EIDE
CD-ROM drives and EIDE tape drives that are
using the built-in EIDE controller, set the
appropriate Drive category to Auto.

Base Memory

Displays amount of memory available to
MS-DOS programs that do not use extended or
expanded memory.

Extended Memory

Displays amount of memory available as
extended memory.

Reserved Memory

Designates a region of system board memory
that can be supplied by an expansion card.

This feature should not be enabled unless an
expansion card that requires special addressing
is installed.