Dell Latitude E6400 XFR Administrator Guide

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Dell™ Business Client E-Family

Re-Image How-To Guide

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Contents

1Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 E-Family New Features and

Image Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

4 Latest Drivers / Applications and

Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5 Installation Sequence Overview . . . . . . . 13

6BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

7 Recommended Drivers / Applications,

Installation Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Microsoft QFEs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Intel Mobile Chipset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

PCMCIA / Smartcard Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Intel Storage - Intel Matrix Storage Manager . . . . . 17

4Contents

Graphics and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Integrated Wired Network Controller . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dell ControlPoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

DCP System Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

DCP Connection Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

DCP Security Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Wireless Network Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Bluetooth (Wireless PAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Broadband Wireless Wide Area Network Controller. . 27

Touchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Modem (Not applicable to Dell Precision M6400) . . . 28

Intel vPro or AMT (Applicable ONLY to

vPro Configurations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Touch Screen Digitizer (E6400 ATG only) . . . . . . . . 29

8 Windows Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

9 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dell e-Docks (E-Family Docking Stations) . . . . . 33

Webcam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dell Business Client E-Family Re-Image How-To Guide 5

Overview

The purpose of this document is to detail the required steps for re-imaging

Dell E-Family notebooks with Microsoft®operating systems. Dell Mobile

Precision Workstations™ also support Red Hat®Linux 5.1. This document is

specific to Microsoft operating systems.

Dell E-Family systems ship with MS Windows XP®SP3 or Vista®SP1. These

images include the Dell recommended software stack and settings including

drivers and applications which were tested and validated with the system.

Drivers and applications must be installed on Dell E-Family systems in a

prescribed order to ensure optimal performance. Failure to install drivers and

applications as detailed in this document may result in undesirable

performance.

Dell provides Drivers and Applications that are not included in Microsoft

operating systems. These drivers are required to enable the new technologies

and features of Dell E-Family products. Reinstalled images should be built

starting from a clean OS load and following the steps in this guide. Dell does

not recommend starting from an image built for D-Family products or other

computer systems.

This "How-To" guide applies to the following-Family systems:

• Dell Latitude™

– E4200

– E4300

– E5400

– E5500

– E6400

– E6400 ATG

– E6500

• Dell Precision Mobile WorkStations

– M2400

– M4400

– M6400

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Supported Operating Systems

The following Microsoft operating systems have been validated for use on

Dell E-Family notebook computers. These operating systems and their

service packs are the latest and most updated releases from Microsoft.

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack-3 - 32-Bit

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack-3 - 64-Bit

• Vista Service Pack-1 - 32-Bit

• Vista Service Pack-1 - 64-Bit

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E-Family New Features and Image

Impact

Dell E-Family systems feature new hardware technologies that require a new

software stack, drivers and / or applications. These products are not

compatible with previous images built or installed on non E-Family or

previous Dell products.

Among these new hardware and technologies are:

•Intel

ICH-9M Chipset

• Intel IRRT (Intel Rapid Recovery Technology)

•eSATA

• Intel AMT (Intel Active Management Technology)

• Graphics controller (Intel and nVidia

)

•DisplayPort

• Network LoM (Intel and Broadcom

)

• Wireless LAN

• Wireless WAN

• Bluetooth

/ UWB

• Broadcom Unified Security Hub (USH)

• Contactless smartcard / RFID

•Webcam

•DellControlPoint

– System Manager

– Connection Manager

–SecurityManager

•PrivacyScreen

• Touch Screen Digitizer (Only 6400 ATG)

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