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 Graphics...............................................................................................16

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

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