Dell DIMENSION XPS GEN 3 WHL Bedienungsanleitung

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Dell™ Dimension™ XPS Gen 3

headphone

connector

microphone

connector

USB 2.0

connectors (2)

IEEE 1394

connector

PCI card (4), PCI Express

x1 card (1), PCI Express

x16 card (1) slots

serial port

parallel port

diagnostic lights

keyboard connector

USB 2.0

connectors (6)

VGA video connector

cover latch release

fans (2)

network adapter connector

security cable slot

fans (2)

sound card connectors

padlock ring

modem connector

power connector

DVI video connector

mouse connector

TV-OUT connector

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Notes, Notices, and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the

problem.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

For a complete list of abbreviations and acronyms, see the

Dell Dimension Help

file. To access the help file, see

page 10.

If you purchased a Dell™ n Series computer, any references in this document to Microsoft

Windows

operating systems are not applicable.

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DellNet, PowerConnect, and Axim are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation; Microsoft,

Windows, and Outlook are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products.

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Model WHL

May 2004 P/N J3186 Rev. A00

Contents 3

Contents

Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1 Setting Up and Using Your Computer

Opening the Drive Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Changing the Backlight Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Connecting Two Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting Two Monitors With VGA Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting One Monitor With a VGA connector and One Monitor

With a DVI Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Changing the Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About Serial ATA Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About Your RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

RAID Level 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

RAID Level 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Configuring Your Computer for RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Configuring for RAID Using the Intel(R) Option ROM Utility. . . . . . . . 20

Configuring for RAID Using the Intel(R) Application Accelerator . . . . . 21

Transferring Information to a New Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Copying CDs and DVDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

How to Copy a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using Blank CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD+Rs, and DVD+RWs . . . . . . . . . 27

Helpful Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Network Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

2 Optimizing Performance

Hyper-Threading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Overclocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

PCI Express Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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3 Solving Problems

Troubleshooting Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Battery Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

CD and DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hard drive problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

IEEE 1394 Device Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Lockups and Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The computer does not start up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

A program crashes repeatedly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

A program is designed for an earlier Windows operating system. . . . . 37

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Mouse Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Network Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Printer Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Scanner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

No sound from speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

No sound from headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Video and Monitor Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

If the screen is blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

If the screen is difficult to read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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4 Advanced Troubleshooting

Diagnostic Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

When to Use the Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Identifying Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Microsoft®Windows®XP System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Creating a Restore Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . . . . . 56

Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Reinstalling Microsoft®Windows®XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5 Removing and Installing Parts

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Front and Back View of the Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Front View (Doors Open). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Inside View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Removing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

PCI Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

PCI Express Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

General Installation Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing a Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adding a Second Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Installing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Processor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing the Processor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Installing the Processor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Removing the Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Replacing the Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Drive Door. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Removing the Drive Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Replacing the Drive Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Closing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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6 Appendix

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Entering System Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Clearing Forgotten Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Clearing CMOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Dell Technical Support Policy (U.S. Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . . . 121

Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals . . . . . . . . . 121

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

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Finding Information

What Are You Looking For? Find it Here

• How to access tutorials and other how to information

• How to get a copy of my invoice

• How to extend my warranty

• How to access Dell Support on my Microsoft

Windows

desktop (U.S. only)

• Additional documentation, tools, troubleshooting

information, and links to online support resources

Dell Solution Center

On your Windows desktop

• A diagnostic program for my computer

• Drivers for my computer

• My computer documentation

• My device documentation

ResourceCD

Documentation and drivers are already installed on your

computer. You can use the CD to reinstall drivers (see

page 54), run the Dell Diagnostics (see page 50), or

access your documentation.

Readme files may be

included on your CD to

provide last-minute

updates about technical

changes to your

computer or advanced

technical-reference

material for technicians

or experienced users.

• Additional information about setting up my computer

• How to troubleshoot and solve problems

• How to remove and install parts

• Technical specifications

• How to contact Dell

Dimension Owner’s Manual

NOTE: This document is available as a PDF at

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• Warranty information

• Safety instructions

• Regulatory information

• Ergonomics information

• End User License Agreement

Dell™ Product Information Guide

• How to set up my computer

Setup Diagram

• Tips on using Microsoft

Windows

• How to play CDs and DVDs

• How to use standby mode and hibernate mode

• How to change my display resolution

• How to clean my computer

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