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Chapter 4 System Software Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Partitioning and Formatting the Hard-Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Installing the Windows 98 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Installing Drivers and Utilities for Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Installing the Video Driver (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Installing the Audio Driver and the Modem Driver (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Installing the DualPoint Integrated Pointing Device Drivers
(Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Installing the Touch Pad Drivers (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Installing Softex BayManager (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Installing the Intel SpeedStep Utility (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Installing System Utilities (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Installing Docking Drivers (Optional) (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Installing the DVD Decoder Driver (Optional) (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Installing the System Help (Windows 98) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Installing Help From the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Downloading Help From the Support Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Installing Drivers and Utilities for Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Installing the Video Driver (Windows NT). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Installing the Power Management Utility (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Installing the Intel SpeedStep Utility (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Installing the PC Card Utility (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Installing Softex Docking Services (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Installing the Audio Driver and the Modem Driver (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Installing the DualPoint Integrated Pointing Device Drivers
(Windows NT). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Installing the Touch Pad Drivers (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Installing System Utilities (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Installing the System Help (Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Installing Help From the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Downloading Help From the Support Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
Installing Drivers and Utilities for Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
Installing the Audio Driver and the Modem Driver (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . 4-17
Installing the Video Driver (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18
Installing the DualPoint Integrated Pointing Device Drivers
(Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Installing the Touch Pad Drivers (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Installing the Intel SpeedStep Utility (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Save-to-Disk Suspend Utility (for Windows 98 and Windows NT) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Removing the Save-to-Disk Suspend Partition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Creating the Save-to-Disk Suspend Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23
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