[293] in winnt
Re: Dell Flash BIOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carrie Groves)
Fri Jan 29 11:03:42 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:03:36 -0500
To: Jodie Higgins <jodie@MIT.EDU>
From: Carrie Groves <cgroves@MIT.EDU>
Cc: itpartners@MIT.EDU, ntpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990129154551.008e87a4@po9.mit.edu>
Jodie,
According to the Dell web page the OptiPlex GX1, GXi, GXa, CPi and CP are
comliant. The GXpro needs to have BIOS version A04 or later to be compliant
and as far as I have found you have to boot up in DOS which means
installing it if you don't already have it then updating the BIOS. If
anyone has found different information, I'd be interested to know because
we have plenty of Dells where I work.
At 10:45 AM 1/29/99 -0500, Jodie Higgins wrote:
>Does anyone know if MIT is suggesting the Dell Flash BIOS fix for Y2K
>compliance for all of the Dell Optiplexes deployed for SAP? (I have an
>office full of them) And if so, can anyone suggest how to install it since
>the instructions say to restart the computer in DOS Mode. Windows NT does
>not allow that option.
>
>Thanks
>Jodie
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jodie Higgins
>Membership Coordinator
>MIT Center for Real Estate
>W31-310
>Phone: 617.253.8311
>Fax: 617.258.6991
>
>
Carrie Groves
Network Administrator
MIT ODSUE-IT
(617) 258-0714
