[295] in winnt
Re: Dell Flash BIOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Fri Jan 29 11:16:50 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:14:04 -0500
To: Carrie Groves <cgroves@MIT.EDU>, Jodie Higgins <jodie@MIT.EDU>
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: itpartners@MIT.EDU, ntpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990129110336.009709f0@po8.mit.edu>
Creating a DOS boot disk from any PC not running NT could be used to
intercept the boot process so that NT doesn't load. I'd be happy to build
such a floppy for folks if they need one. You'd need to have the BIOS
flash program on another floppy or on a FAT file system on your PC's hard
disk.
Rob
At 11:03 AM 1/29/99 -0500, Carrie Groves wrote:
>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
>
