Reference 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 Graphics........................................................................................... 16

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

6 Audio................................................................................................16