Dell OptiPlex GX1 Reference And Installation Manual

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Introduction 1-11Computer users can also help to reduce electricity usage and its side effects by turn-ing off their computer systems when they are not in use for extended periods oftime—particularly at night and on weekends.,PSRUWDQW1RWHIRU:LQGRZV8VHUVYour system was configured by Dell to optimize the features of the Windows 95 oper-ating system. To ensure that all of these features are maintained on your system, youmust use the version of Windows 95 that Dell installed on your hard-disk drive.Should you need to reinstall Windows 95 on an OptiPlex GX1 or GX1p system for anyreason, you must be sure to reinstall the correct version. Dell recommends perform-ing a periodic tape backup of the system’s entire hard-disk drive so that, if necessary,the operating system, drivers, and other software can be reinstalled as originally con-figured with a minimum of downtime.If you are unable to reinstall your software from a tape backup of the hard-disk drive,you can reinstall Windows 95 from the system’s Windows 95 CD that you receivedfrom Dell.However, if you reinstall Windows 95 in this manner, the bus-masteringfunctionality of the Windows 95 EIDE driver, which was operative in your original con-figuration, will be disabled. (Your system will operate without the bus-masteringfunctionality with only a small degradation in performance. For information on theadvantages of using bus-mastering drivers, see “Bus-Mastering EIDE Drivers” in the“Using Drivers and Utilities” section of your onlineSystem User’s Guide.) You mayalso need to reinstall your system’s video, audio, and NIC drivers from the diskettescreated from the Dell-installed software on your system.NOTE: If you are a system administrator of corporate networks and you must down-load Windows 95 from a server to client systems, make sure that you have theWindows 95 backup media for the OptiPlex GX1 system on your server beforedownloading.,QWHO3,,;,1)8SGDWH,QVWDOOHUIRU:LQGRZVNOTE: The following procedure applies only to versions of Windows 95 installed byDell.If you must reinstall Windows 95 on your computer system, you also need to run theIntel PIIX4 INF Update Installer for Windows 95 immediately after installing the oper-ating system. Doing so enables Windows 95 to detect and configure PCI devicescontrolled by the integrated 82371EB component.Before you can perform the update, you must make a diskette copy of the updatesoftware from the disk image on the hard-disk drive. To make the diskette copy, usethe Program Diskette Maker, which is located in the Dell Accessories folder. Refer tothe onlineSystem User’s Guide for information about using the Program DisketteMaker.