Making Selections in the EISA Configu- ration Utility

The EISA Configuration Utility uses menus to guide you through the configuration process. The menus and their options are accessed through keyboard commands.

To make a menu selection, use the up- or down-arrow key to highlight the desired option, and then press <Enter>. In the Help menu or Advanced menu, you can also select an option by pressing the key that corresponds to the high- lighted letter in the selection list.

To scroll up or down a screen, press the <Page Up> or <Page Down> key, respectively.

Using Online Instructions

The EISA Configuration Utility has online instructions for each of its procedures. If you need help at any time, press <F1> to see a help screen that offers more details about the task you are doing.

Starting the EISA Configuration Utility

NOTE: Your system’s default hardware configuration allows updating of the EISA configuration information. However, if the EISA jumper on the system board is installed, the EISA configuration information cannot be updated until the jumper plug is removed.

If you have reason to think the EISA jumper setting has been changed, check the jumper before attempting to make an EISA configuration change. For instructions on removing and replacing the computer cover, see “Remov- ing the Computer Cover” and “Replacing the Computer Cover” in Chapter 6. For information on the EISA jumper location and settings, see Figure B-1 and Table B-1, respectively in Appendix B, “Hardware Configuration Features.”

If you are running the EISA Configuration Utility from your hard-disk drive, remove any TSR programs from memory before starting the utility. These programs take up space in system memory even when they are not run- ning, thus reducing the amount of memory available to the EISA Configuration Utility. See the documentation

that accompanied these programs for instructions on removing them from memory.

If you start the utility and there is not enough memory to run it, a message is displayed. If you receive such a mes- sage, run the utility from a diskette.

Follow these steps the first time you use the EISA Con- figuration Utility. Later, if a card is added, removed, or repositioned, you must follow the procedure described in “Step 2: Add or Remove Boards” found later in this chapter.

1.To run the program from a diskette, insert into drive A the EISA Configuration Utility diskette that you created from the CD. Then either turn on your computer or reboot it by pressing the <Ctrl><Alt><Del> key combination or the reset button.

To run the program from your hard-disk drive,

switch to the c:\eisacfg subdirectory, type at the operating system prompt, and press <Enter>.

To run the program from the Dell Server Assistant CD, restart the system from the CD. Select Run EISA Configuration Utility from the CD’s main menu.

To access the advanced options (described in “Advanced Menu” in this chapter), press <Ctrl><a> at the Welcome screen.

You can run the EISA Configuration Utility in mod-

eling mode by typing at the operating system prompt and pressing <Enter>.

NOTE: To use modeling mode, you must run the EISA Configuration Utility from your hard-disk drive.

Modeling mode lets you set up configuration param- eters for a system different from the one you are using and allows you to save a configuration to a file. Modeling mode is useful if you need to config- ure many systems identically; instead of using the EISA Configuration Utility to configure each sys- tem, you can transfer the configuration file to a diskette and load it onto each system. See “Modeling Mode” found later in this chapter for more information.

Press <Esc> to return to the Welcome screen.

Using the EISA Configuration Utility

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2100/180, 2100/200 specifications

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