Dell XPS 710 Owner's Manual

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Setting Up and Using Your Computer 25Changing the Display Settings to Support Two or More MonitorsNOTE: Dual graphics card configurations with multi-GPU technology enabled support only a single monitor. Inorder to connect and use two or more monitors in a dual graphics card configuration with multi-GPU technology,multi-GPU must be disabled.1 With your monitors connected and turned on, turn on the computer.The Microsoft® Windows® desktop displays on the primary monitor.2 Disable multi-GPU technology in the display settings (applies only to dual graphics cardconfigurations with multi-GPU technology enabled):For information on disabling multi-GPU technology, see the documentation that came with yourgraphics card.3 Enable clone mode or extended desktop mode in the display settings.• In clone mode, all monitors display the same image.• In extended desktop mode, you can drag objects from one screen to the other, increasing theamount of viewable work space.For more information on changing the display settings for your graphics card, see the device user’s guidein the Help and Support Center (click Start, click Help and Support, click User and system guides, clickDevice guides, and then click the guide for your graphics card).About Your RAID ConfigurationNOTICE: In order to use the migrating option to convert a RAID configuration without losing data, your hard drivemust initially be set up as a single drive RAID 0 array before the operating system is loaded onto the drive (see"Using the NVIDIA MediaShield ROM Utility" on page 28 for instructions).This section provides an overview of the RAID configuration you may have selected when you purchasedyour computer. There are several RAID configurations available in the computer industry for differenttypes of uses. Your Dell XPS™ computer supports RAID level 0 and RAID level 1. A RAID level 0configuration is recommended for high-performance programs while RAID level 1 is recommended forusers that desire a high level of data integrity.NOTE: RAID levels do not represent a hierarchy. A RAID level 1 configuration is not inherently better or worse thana RAID level 0 configuration.The drives in a RAID configuration should be the same size in order to ensure that the larger drive doesnot contain unallocated (and therefore unusable) space.book.book Page 25 Friday, October 27, 2006 4:02 PM