DELL NX046 User Manual

Advanced Features

LegacySelect technology control offers legacy-full, legacy-reduced, or legacy-

free solutions based on common platforms, hard-drive images, and help desk 

procedures. Control is provided to the administrator through system setup, 

Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant, or Dell custom factory integration.
LegacySelect allows administrators to electronically activate or deactivate 

connectors and media devices that include serial and USB connectors, a 

parallel connector, a floppy drive, PCI slots, and a PS/2 mouse. Connectors 

and media devices that are deactivated make resources available. You must 

restart the computer to effect the changes.

Alert Standard Format (ASF) is a DMTF management standard that specifies 

"pre-operating system" or "operating system-absent" alerting techniques. The 

standard is designed to generate an alert on potential security and fault 

conditions when the operating system is in a sleep state or the computer is 

powered down. ASF is designed to supersede previous operating system-absent 

alerting technologies.
Your computer supports the following ASF alerts: