System Setup Options: Dell Latitude LS Portable Computers User's Guide
System Time | Sets the computer to the time you specify (usually the current time) in |
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| move between the hours, minutes, and seconds fields. This option is |
| useful if you travel between time zones. |
System Date | Sets the computer to the date you specify (usually the current date). |
| Type the appropriate information. Use the tab key to move between the |
| month, day, and year fields. |
Diskette A, | Identifies the primary |
Diskette B | media bay or attached to the parallel port. Diskette Drive B identifies a |
| second |
IDE Adapter 0 | Identifies the |
Master | |
IDE Adapter 1 | Identifies an integrated drive electronics (IDE) device (such as a |
Master | |
| through the media bay cable. |
PS/2 Pointing | Auto Detect (the default) allows the basic input/output system (BIOS) to |
Device | detect and enable an external Personal System (PS)/2 mouse (if |
| attached) or enable the touch pad. Enabled enables the touch pad |
| only. Disabled allows the use of a serial mouse. |
Summary Screen | When Summary Screen is Enabled (the default), a Phoenix BIOS |
| Setup Utility summary screen appears during system boot after the |
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| system setup settings. When this option is set to Disabled, the summary |
| screen does not appear. |
Quiet Boot | When this option is set to Enabled (the default), the POST messages |
| and summary screen do not appear at system |
| choose a boot device as the system initializes. When this option is set to |
| Disabled, the POST messages and summary screen do appear at |
| system |
System Memory | Displays the base amount of dynamic |
| installed in the computer. Each computer has 640 kilobytes (KB) of base |
| memory. This option has no |
Extended | Displays the total amount of memory above 1 megabyte (MB). Each |
Memory | computer comes with at least 64 MB of memory installed. This option |
| has no |
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