System setup options – Dell Dimension 1100/B110 User Manual

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Appendix

System Setup Options

NOTE:

Depending on your computer and installed devices, the items listed in this section may not appear, or may

not appear exactly as listed.

System

System Time

Identifies the system clock time as formatted.

System Date

Identifies the date as formatted: Weekday Month

Drive Configuration

Diskette Drive

Identifies and defines the floppy drive attached to the FLOPPY connector
on the system board as Off, USB, Internal, or Read Only.

Primary Master

Drive

Identifies the drive attached to the PRI IDE connectors on the system
board, and lists the capacity for a hard drive.

Primary Slave

Drive

Identifies and defines the slave drive to the primary master drive on PRI
IDE. Can be turned Off or set to Auto (to detect the drive) and if present,
lists the capacity for the drive.

Secondary Master

Drive

Identifies the drive attached to the SEC IDE connectors on the system
board, and lists the capacity for a hard drive (lists n/a for optical devices
such as CD/DVD drives).

Secondary Slave

Drive

Identifies and defines the slave drive to the secondary master drive on SEC
IDE. Can be turned Off or set to Auto (to detect the drive) and if present,
lists the capacity for the drives (lists n/a for optical devices such as CD/DVD
drives).

IDE Drive UDMA

Identifies whether or not to enable UDMA (the Ultra Direct Memory
Access mass storage interface).

Hard-Disk Drive Sequence

Identifies the device types that are in first and second priority for booting
the system.

• System BIOS - devices such as hard drives and CD/DVD ROMs as listed in

the Boot Sequence section of this System Setup program

• USB device - a device such as an external hard drive or USB memory key

By default, System BIOS boot devices is first (in position 1), followed by
USB device. To change the order, select an option and press the + or - key
to move the selection up or down in priority.

NOTE:

If you insert a boot device and restart the computer, this option appears

in the system setup menu. To boot from a USB memory device, select the USB
device and move it so it becomes the first device in the list.

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