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RE: Those Dell 760's we didn't touch any BIOS settings did we?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Sat Mar 28 00:15:09 2009
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Brian Campbell <pepsikid@mit.edu>
Cc: othomas@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu, Matt_Domsch@dell.com
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:15:48 -0400
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Thanks, Brian.
-Bill
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:49 -0400, Brian Campbell wrote:
> Bill you got them just the way they came from dell.
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> brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:30 PM
> To: Brian Campbell <pepsikid@mit.edu>
> Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>; athena10@mit.edu; Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
> Subject: Those Dell 760's we didn't touch any BIOS settings did we?
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> Brian,
>
> Andrew Boardman, I and some others have just spent a lot of time
> trying to track down a Linux problem that goes away when I tell the
> BIOS, "Reset to Factory Settings".
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> Before I go to Dell with this, I need to make sure:
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> Did anybody do anything with BIOS settings between when those two
> Optiplex 760s shipped from Dell to when Andrew and I got them?
>
> Did anybody install any additional software or anything? Or did
> Andrew and I receive these systems AS DELL SHIPPED THEM?
>
> -Bill
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