Administrator Guide

Contents

Installation overview .......................................................... 5

Introduction ....................................................................... 6

Order of reinstallation ........................................................ 7

Updating or Resetting the BIOS .......................................... 9

Flashing the BIOS ............................................................................................ 9

Clearing CMOS settings .................................................................................. 9

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security ....................................................... 9

Reinstalling the operating system ...................................... 11

Reinstalling drivers and applications ................................. 12

Displaying drivers and applications on your computer .................................. 12

Reinstallation sequence for drivers and applications .......... 13

1 Intel chipset device software ...................................................................... 13

Downloading and installing the chipset driver ........................................ 13

2 Critical Microsoft Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) updates ............................. 14

3 Media-card reader driver .......................................................................... 14

Downloading and installing the media-card reader driver ...................... 14

4 Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) ........................................................ 15

Downloading and installing the IRST driver .............................................. 15

5 Audio .......................................................................................................... 16

Downloading and installing the Dell audio driver ..................................... 16

6 Graphics ...................................................................................................... 16