Dell XPS 710 Owner's Manual

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To connect a TV to your computer, an S-video cable is required. If you do not have an S-video cable, you may purchase one at most consumer electronicsstores. An S-video cable is not included with your computer.1. Turn off the computer and all attached devices:a. Click Start, then click Turn Off Computer.b. In the Turn off computer window, click Turn off.The computer performs a shutdown of the operating system, and then turns off.2. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.3. Connect one end of the S-video cable to the TV-OUT connector on the back of the computer.4. Connect the other end of the S-video cable to the S-video input connector on your TV.5. Connect one monitor, as needed, with a DVI or VGA connector as described in Connecting Monitors.Changing the Display Settings to Support Two or More Monitors1. 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 card configurations with multi-GPU technology enabled):For information on disabling multi-GPU technology, see the documentation that came with your graphics card.3. Enable clone mode or extended desktop mode in the display settings.l In clone mode, all monitors display the same image.l In extended desktop mode, you can drag objects from one screen to the other, increasing the amount of viewable work space.For more information on changing the display settings for your graphics card, see the device user's guide in the Help and Support Center (click Start, click Helpand Support, click User and system guides, click Device guides, and then click the guide for your graphics card).About Your RAID ConfigurationThis section provides an overview of the RAID configuration you may have selected when you purchased your computer. There are several RAID configurationsavailable in the computer industry for different types of uses. Your Dell XPS computer supports RAID level 0 and RAID level 1. A RAID level 0 configuration isrecommended for high-performance programs while RAID level 1 is recommended for users that desire a high level of data integrity.The drives in a RAID configuration should be the same size in order to ensure that the larger drive does not contain unallocated (and therefore unusable)space.RAID Level 0 ConfigurationRAID level 0 uses a storage technique known as data striping to provide a high data access rate. Data striping is a method of writing consecutive segments, orstripes, of data sequentially across the physical drive(s) to create a large virtual drive. Data striping allows one of the drives to read data while the other driveis searching for and reading the next block.NOTE: If you are connecting a TV to your computer, you may connect only one monitor (VGA or DVI) in addition to the TV.NOTE: See the documentation that came with your TV to ensure that you properly configure and connect the TV.NOTE: Ensure that the computer is off and not in a power management mode. If you cannot shut down the computer using the operating system,press and hold the power button for 4 seconds.NOTE: Dual graphics card configurations with multi-GPU technology enabled support only a single monitor. In order to connect and use two or moremonitors in a dual graphics card configuration with multi-GPU technology, multi-GPU must be disabled.NOTICE: In order to use the migrating option to convert a RAID configuration without losing data, your hard drive must initially be set up as a singledrive RAID 0 array before the operating system is loaded onto the drive (see Using the Nvidia MediaShield ROM Utility for instructions).NOTE: RAID levels do not represent a hierarchy. A RAID level 1 configuration is not inherently better or worse than a RAID level 0 configuration.NOTICE: Because a RAID level 0 configuration provides no data redundancy, a failure of one drive results in the loss of all data. To protect your datawhen using a RAID level 0 configuration, perform regular backups.