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If you are unable to reinstall your software from a tape backup of the hard-disk drive, you can reinstall the Win- dows 95 operating system from the system’s Windows 95 backup media (CD or diskettes) that you received from Dell or created from the Dell-installed software on your system. However, if you reinstall the Windows 95 operat- ing system in this manner, the bus-mastering functionality of the Windows 95 EIDE driver, which was operative in your original configuration, will be disabled. (Your sys- tem will operate without the bus-mastering functionality with only a small degradation in performance. For infor- mation on the advantages of using bus-mastering drivers, see “Bus-Mastering EIDE Drivers” in the “Using Drivers and Utilities” section of your online System User’s Guide.) You may also need to reinstall your system’s video, audio, and NIC drivers from the diskettes created from the Dell-installed software on your system.

NOTE: If you are a system administrator of corporate networks and you must download the Windows 95 oper- ating system from a server to client systems, make sure that you have the Windows 95 backup media for the Opti- Plex GXa system on your server before downloading.

Intel PIIX4 INF Update Installer for Windows 95

NOTE: The following procedure applies only to versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system installed by Dell.

If you must reinstall Windows 95 on your computer sys- tem, you also need to run the Intel PIIX4 INF Update Installer for Windows 95 immediately after installing the operating system. Doing so enables Windows 95 to detect and configure PCI devices controlled by the inte- grated 82371AB component.

Before you can perform the update, you must make a dis- kette copy of the update software from the disk image on the hard-disk drive. To make the diskette copy, use the Program Diskette Maker, which is located in the Dell Accessories folder on your system. Refer to the online System User’s Guide for information about using the Pro- gram Diskette Maker.

The following procedure describes how to install the update:

1.Insert the Windows 95 Intel Support Driver Ver. A00 diskette into drive A.

2.Click the Start button and click Run.

3.Type a:\setup.exe and press Enter.

4.Click Next on the Welcome Screen.

The license agreement opens in the Notepad applica- tion program.

5.View the text file and close the Notepad applica- tion program when you are ready to proceed.

6.Click Yes to continue.

The next dialog box lists the information (.inf) files on your system that will be revised by the update software.

7.Click Next to continue.

8.Click OK to start the update.

9.When the update is complete, remove the diskette from the diskette drive and click OK to restart your system.

During start-up, the operating system detects new hardware and the Update Device Driver Wizard screen appears.

10.Click Next to continue.

The system finds the hardware device driver on the hard-disk drive and installs it.

11.Click Finish to continue.

The system continues its start-up routine. When Windows 95 finishes loading, a dialog box appears and informs you that the system configuration set- tings have changed and asks if you want to restart your system.

12.Click OK to restart the system.