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Contents

Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

System Views

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Mini Tower Computer — Front View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Mini Tower Computer — Back View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Desktop Computer — Front View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Desktop Computer — Back View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Small Form Factor Computer — Front View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Small Form Factor Computer — Back View

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Back-Panel Connectors

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Removing the Computer Cover

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Before You Begin

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Mini Tower Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Desktop Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Small Form Factor Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Inside Your Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Mini Tower Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Desktop Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Small Form Factor Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Setting Up Your Computer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Solving Problems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Dell Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

System Lights

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Diagnostic Lights

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Beep Codes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Running the Dell™ IDE Hard Drive Diagnostics

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities

. . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using Microsoft

®

Windows

®

XP System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Reinstalling Microsoft

®

Windows

®

XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Drivers and Utilities CD

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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