Dell OptiPlex Gxi - Manual (Page 139)

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.