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Preface: Dell Resolution Assistant 3.1 User's Guide
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Preface: Dell™ Resolution Assistant 3.1 User's Guide
This guide is intended for anyone who uses the Dell Resolution Assistant 3.1 problem
diagnostic application program. It can also be used by system administrators who want to
learn Resolution Assistant 3.1 installation procedures and operation.
The sections are summarized as follows:
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NOTE: Documentation updates are sometimes included
with your system or software to describe changes to your system or software. Always read
these updates before consulting any other documentation because the updates usually
contain the latest information. |
You may also have one or more of the following documents:
- Operating system documentation is included if you ordered your
operating system from Dell. This documentation describes how to install (if necessary),
configure, and use your operating system.
- Documentation is included with any options you purchase separately
from your computer system. This documentation includes information that you need to
configure and install these options in your Dell™ system. Installation instructions
for the options are included in your system User’s Guide, Installation and
Troubleshooting Guide, or product-specific Quick Installation Guide, if
applicable. However, to install some options, you may need to see the accompanying
documentation from the option manufacturer.
- Technical information files — sometimes called readme files
— may be installed on your hard-disk drive or included on your CD to provide
last-minute updates about technical changes to the system or advanced technical reference
material intended for experienced users or technicians.
Throughout this guide, blocks of text may be accompanied by an icon
and printed in bold type or in italic type. These blocks are notes, notices, cautions, and
warnings, and they are used as follows:
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NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps
you make better use of your computer system. |
NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to
hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
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CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous
situation which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury. |
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WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous
situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious bodily injury. |
Typographical Conventions
The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates
typographical conventions used as visual cues for specific elements of text throughout
this document:
- Interface components are window titles, button and icon names,
menu names and selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display.
They are presented in bold.
Example: Click OK.
- Keycaps are labels that appear on the keys on a keyboard. They
are enclosed in angle brackets.
Example: <Enter>
- Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed
simultaneously (unless otherwise indicated) to perform a single function.
Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>
- Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference
purposes only and are not intended to be typed when referenced.
Example: "Use the format command to . . . ."
In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are part of
an instruction and intended to be typed.
Example: "Type format
a: to format the diskette in drive A."
- Filenames and directory names are presented in
lowercase bold.
Examples: autoexec.bat and
c:\windows
- Syntax lines consist of a command and all its possible
parameters. Commands are presented in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which
you substitute a value) are presented in lowercase italics; constant parameters are
presented in lowercase bold. The brackets indicate items that are optional.
Example: del [drive:] [path] filename [/p]
- Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more
of the command’s possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New
font.
Example: del
c:\myfile.doc
- Screen text is a message or text that you are instructed to
type as part of a command (referred to as a command line). Screen text is presented
in the Courier New font.
Example: The following message
appears on your screen:
No boot device available
Example: "Type md
c:\programs and press <Enter>."
- Variables are placeholders for which you substitute a value.
They are presented in italics.
Example: DIMM_x (where x
represents the DIMM socket designation).
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