Dell OptiPlex XE (Early 2010) User Manual

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System information: Displays BIOS Info, System Info, and the Service Tag.

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Memory information: Displays Installed Memory, Usable Memory, Memory Speed, Memory Channel Mode, and Memory

Technology.

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Processor information: Displays the Processor Type, Processor Speed, Processor Bus Speed, Processor L2 cache, Processor ID.

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PCI information: Displays available slots on the system board.

 

Date/Time

Displays the system date and time. Changes to the system date and time take effect immediately.

Boot Sequence

Specifies the order in which the computer attempts to find an operating system from the devices specified in this list.

Drives

Diskette drive

Enables or disables the floppy drive connector on the system board.

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Disable

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Enable

SATA Operation

 

Configures the operating mode of the integrated hard drive controller to:

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RAID Autodetect/AHCI (default)

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RAID Autodetect/ATA

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RAID On/ATA

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Legacy

S.M.A.R.T. Reporting

Enables or disables integrated drive errors to be reported during system startup.

This option is disabled by default.

Drives

Enables or disables the SATA or ATA drives connected to the system board.

System Configuration

Integrated NIC

Integrated NIC 2

 

Enables or disables the integrated network card. You can set the integrated NIC to:

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Enable (default)

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Disable

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Enable with PXE

USB Controller

Enables or disables the integrated USB controller. You can set the USB controller to:

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Enable (default)

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Disable

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No boot

Serial Port #1

Serial Port #2

 

Identifies and defines the serial port settings. You can set the serial port to:

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Disable

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Auto (default)

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COM1

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COM3

 

NOTE:

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

Miscellaneous Devices

Enables or disables the following onboard devices:

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Front USB

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Rear Dual USB (under NIC1 and powered USB)

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Rear Dual USB (under NIC2 and powered USB)

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PCI slots

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Audio

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WiFi NIC slot

Video

Primary Video

Specifies which video controller is primary when two video controllers are present on the computer.

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Auto (default)

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Onboard/PEG

Performance

Multi Core Support

Specifies whether one or all the cores of the processor will be enabled.

 

NOTE:

The performance of some applications improve with additional cores.

Intel® SpeedStep™

Enables or disables the Intel SpeedStep mode.

This option is disabled by default.

C States Control

Enables or disables additional processor sleep states.

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