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"Ron Reaugh" <rondashreaugh@att.net> writes:
>Note the Dell website article has a date of 8/27 and the post about an
>earlier Dell email was 8/31. This issue has been relatively fast breaking.
>Therefore the two are not at great odds with one another..big company.
I tend to agree. There are all kinds of people running around shrieking
that they know the real poop and everybody else is wrong. One swore that
second level management at Microsoft promised him there would be a new
version of SP2 out at the end of the month, presumably to make up for the
recent events. Others swore even more loudly that this was impossible
and he had no idea what he was talking about or that it was just one
more, uh, I think he wrote "phone dweeb just trying to get you off the
line so he can maintain his quota."
I'd DEARLY love to see the number of people with problems in SP2 when
a randomly selected group of 10,000 were polled, the real data.
>"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
>news:N42dnbp5kqqghqDcRVn-jg@scnresearch.com...
>> Gmom <dontcallus@wellcall.you> writes:
>> >On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 17:31:46 -0500, dont@agora.rdrop.com (Don Taylor)
>wrote:
>> >>"Joe Zorzin" <abc@xyz> writes:
>> >>>Sometime soon I suppose I'll install SP2. I saw some discussion here
>that
>> >>>Dell suggests updating your BIOS first, but I'm not inclined to do
>that-
>> >>>unless Dell says that the service pack update will definitely not work
>> >>>without it.
>> >>
>> >>There was an announcement from Dell that said somehow a rumor got
>started
>> >>that updating the bios was needed in Dell machines before installing
>SP2.
>> >>The announcement said they didn't know how this rumor got started but it
>> >>was not necessary.
>> >>
>> >>You should search for that an confirm it, rather than accepting just any
>> >>old wild raving off the net, just to make sure I haven't made a mistake.
>>
>> >Is this what they call a rumor?
>>
>>
>>http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?c
>=us&cs=19&DN=1089836&l=en&s=dhs#step4
>>
>> Well, see, my generally excessive cautions may have paid off.
>> I went to find the exact newsgroup posting that I based mine on.
>> This is what I just found with a google newsgroup search:
>> ========================================================================
>>
>http://www.google.com/groups?q=dell+bios+rumor+sp2&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&selm=OTJ2vB4jEHA.2500%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl&rnum=1
>>
>> From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
>> Subject: Re: Blue screen of death after XP SP2 upgrade...
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
>> Date: 2004-08-31 10:33:22 PST neo [mvp outlook] wrote:
>>
>> > Any chance that you are working with a Dell Latitude D600? If yes, you
>need
>> > BIOS update A12 or newer or you will be a very unhappy camper. (D600's
>will
>> > blue screen and corrupt the hard drive.
>> Hi
>>
>> Here is what Dell responded to us about the D600 laptop rumor:
>>
>> <quote>
>>
>> On Monday a Dell customer posted a dire warning on a listserve
>> concerning BIOS issues with the D600 and Windows XP SP2.
>>
>> This has now made it's way onto the Dell Talk Forums and is
>> being repeated at an alarming rate.
>>
>> Dell engineering has gone back and tested the D600 using numerous
>> prior versions of BIOS and cannot reproduce the issue.
>>
>> To date, there are no known issues with any Dell systems and BIOS
>> related to XP SP2.
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>> --
>> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
>> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>> ========================================================================
>>
>> SP2 has turned into a zoo with everybody pointing fingers at everybody
>> but themselves.
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