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Dell Precision 370 User Manual

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LPT Port
Address

Determines the address that the built-in parallel port uses.

LPT Port
DMA

Determines the address that the parallel port uses when it is in ECP mode. Off disables the DMA channel.

DMA 1 selects the DMA 1 channel. DMA 3 selects the DMA 3 channel.

SATA2
Controller

Serial Port
#1

Serial Port 1 appears as an option if you have a serial port card installed.

Auto, the default setting, automatically configures a connector to a particular designation (COM1 or COM3).

USB

Enables or disables the internal USB controller. Off disables controller. On enables the controller.

Performance

Hyper -
Threading

Determines whether each physical processor appears as one or two logical processors. The performance of

some applications improves with additional logical processors. On enables Hyper-Threading. Off disables

Hyper-Threading.

IDE
Performance

Quiet (default) - the hard drive operates at its most quiet setting.

Performance - the hard drive operates at its maximum speed.

Bypass - your computer does not test or change the current acoustics mode setting.

Suggested - the hard drive operates at the level suggested by the drive manufacturer.

NOTE:

Switching to performance mode may cause the drive to be noisier, but its performance is not

affected.

NOTE:

Changing the acoustics setting does not alter your hard drive image.

Security

Admin
Password

This option provides restricted access to the computer's System Setup program in the same way that access

to the system can be restricted with the System Password option.

System
Password

Displays the current status of the system's password security feature and allows a new system password to

be assigned and verified.

Drive
Password

Password
Status

This option locks the system password field with the admin password. When the field is locked, the option to

disable password security by pressing when the computer starts is no longer available.

Chassis
Intrusion

When enabled, this option alerts the user, during the next computer start-up, that the computer cover has

been opened.

Power Management

AC Power
Recovery

Determines what happens when AC power is restored to the computer.

Auto Power
On

Sets time and days of week to automatically turn on the computer. Choices are every day or every Monday

through Friday.

Time is kept in a 24-hour format (hours:minutes). Change the start-up time by pressing the right- or left-

arrow key to increase or decrease the numbers, or type numbers in both the date and time fields.

The default setting is Disabled.

This feature does not work if you turn off your computer using a power strip or surge protector.

Auto Power
Time

Low Power

When Low Power Mode is selected, remote wakeup events will no longer power up from Hibernate or Off

from onboard network controller.