Installing the system board........................................................................................................................................... 78
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS setup program.................................................................................................80
Chapter 3: Device drivers.......................................................................................................................81
Operating system................................................................................................................................................................81
Downloading the audio driver........................................................................................................................................... 81
Downloading the graphics driver...................................................................................................................................... 81
Downloading the USB driver.............................................................................................................................................82
Downloading the WiFi driver............................................................................................................................................ 83
Downloading the media-card reader driver.....................................................................................................................83
Downloading the chipset driver........................................................................................................................................84
Downloading the network driver...................................................................................................................................... 84
Chapter 4: System setup........................................................................................................................86
System setup.......................................................................................................................................................................86
Entering BIOS setup program........................................................................................................................................... 86
Navigation keys..................................................................................................................................................................86
Boot Sequence................................................................................................................................................................... 86
System setup options..........................................................................................................................................................87
System and setup password................................................................................................................................................91
Assigning a system setup password..............................................................................................................................92
Deleting or changing an existing system setup password.......................................................................................... 92
Clearing CMOS settings...............................................................................................................................................93
Clearing BIOS (System Setup) and System passwords............................................................................................... 93
Updating the BIOS.............................................................................................................................................................93
Updating the BIOS in Windows...................................................................................................................................93
Updating the BIOS using the USB drive in Windows.................................................................................................93
Updating the BIOS from the F12 One-Time boot menu............................................................................................ 94
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting...................................................................................................................95
SupportAssist diagnostics.................................................................................................................................................. 95
System-diagnostic lights....................................................................................................................................................95
Recovering the operating system......................................................................................................................................96
WiFi power cycle............................................................................................................................................................... 96
Drain residual flea power (perform hard reset)................................................................................................................96
Modern Standby.................................................................................................................................................................97
Chapter 6: Getting help and contacting Alienware............................................................................. 98
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