Software Features
The following software is included with your Dell computer system:
l A BIOS that resides in flash memory and can be upgraded by diskette, or remotely over a network, if required.
l Highly optimized 2D and OpenGL 3D graphics drivers designed to accelerate major graphics-intensive applications. See your graphics
card documentation for further details.
l Audio drivers for enabling the sound functions of the integrated audio controller.
l Bus-mastering EIDE drivers to improve performance by off-loading certain functions from the microprocessor during multithreaded operation
(when several applications are running simultaneously).
l Embedded System Setup for quickly viewing and changing the system configuration. System Setup also provides several enhanced security
features (a setup password, a system password, a system-password lock option, a write-protect option for diskette drives, chassis intrusion
detection,anddisplayofthesystem'sservicetagnumber).
l Dell Diagnostics for evaluating the computer's components and devices.
l Network device drivers for several operating systems.
l Desktop Management Interface (DMI) support, which enables the remote management of your computer system's software and hardware.
l Support for DellOpenManage™ITAssistant.
Manageability Features
Dell offers the following manageability components for use with your Dell Precision 220 system:
l Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
l MBA
l Remote Wake Up
l Remote System Alert
l Auto Power On
l Chassis intrusion alerts
l Temperature and voltage monitoring
l Common Information Model (CIM) support
l Configuration change alerts
l Asset Info with support for the cost of ownership (COO) Management Information Format (MIF) standard
l Remote BIOS flash
l Remote system configuration
l Prefailure alerts
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
The Dell OpenManage IT Assistant program is the Dell software-management application interface for DMI. It allows you to manage system-level
information, such as system configuration information and MIF database values.
Fault management features of the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant include:
l Alerts to warn you about events generated by SMART drives on a local or remote system
l Thermal monitoring to notify you if the system becomes overheated.
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