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Windows 95 or Windows 98 video driver diskettes

Windows 95 or Windows 98 NIC driver diskette

Windows 95 or Windows 98 audio driver diskette

Windows 95 or Windows 98 USB supplement diskette

NOTE: You must create all the diskettes listed previously by using the Program Dis- kette Maker, which is located in the Dell Accessories folder.

See the Dell-Installed Microsoft Windows 95 Setup Guide or Dell-Installed Windows 98 Setup Guide for general installation information for Windows 95 or Windows 98 and for information about other drivers or supplements that may be required. For installation instructions for the various drivers, see the appropriate document or sec- tion as follows:

‡Windows 95 or Windows 98 PIIX4 — See “Intel PIIX4 INF Update Installer for Windows 95 or Windows 98” found later in this chapter.

‡Windows 95 or Windows 98 video drivers — See the documentation for your video card.

‡Windows 95 or Windows 98 NIC driver — See “Windows or Windows 98 NIC Driver” in Chapter 5.

‡Windows 95 or Windows 98 audio drivers — See “Audio Drivers for Windows 95 or Windows 98” in Chapter 6.

‡Windows 95 or Windows 98 USB driver — See the Dell-Installed Microsoft Win- dows 95 Setup Guide or Dell-Installed Microsoft Windows 98 Setup Guide.

NOTES: If you reinstall Windows 95 or Windows 98 from the Windows 95 or Win- dows 98 CD, the bus-mastering functionality of the Windows 95 or Windows 98 EIDE driver, which was operative in your original configuration, will be disabled. (The sys- tem will operate without the bus-mastering functionality with only a small degradation in performance. For information on the advantages of using bus-mastering drivers, see “Enabling the Windows 95 or Windows 98 Bus-Mastering EIDE Driver” in Chap- ter 2.)

If you are an administrator of corporate networks and you must download the Win- dows 95 or Windows 98 operating system from a server to client systems, make sure that you have the Windows 95 or Windows 98 backup media for the Precision 210

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NOTE: The following procedure applies only to versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98 operating system installed by Dell.

If you must reinstall Windows 95 or Windows 98 on the computer system, you also need to run the Intel PIIX4 INF Update Installer for Windows 95 or Windows 98 immediately after installing the operating system. Doing so enables Windows 95 or Windows 98 to detect and configure PCI devices controlled by the integrated 82371EB component.

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