BIOS upgrade, not really necessary to install XP SP2?

[sparky]

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Tom Scales wrote:
> "Sparky" <nemo@moon.sun.edu> wrote in message
> news:3Xk0d.14426$bE1.8562032@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
>
>>Ron Reaugh wrote:
>>
>>><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>>>
>>>
>>>>But I forgot. I seem to be responding to a person who espouses use of
>>>
>>>Microsoft
>>>
>>>
>>>>and only Microsoft products 24/7. Look where that approach has gotten
>>>>the
>>>>industry! ... Ben Myers
>>>
>>>About 5-8 years ahead or where it would have been without MS.
>>
>><snort>
>>
>>Fortunately the industry doesn't use MS across the board.
>
>
> Hope, just 99.99999%.

Certainly not 99.99999% of the servers. PC's on the desktop is not the
universe of computing, guys.

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:02:43 -0400, "Joe Zorzin" <abc@xyz> wrote:

>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.
>
>I have a 2 year old 8200 which so far works just fine.

Dimension 8200 user here. Installed SP2 with no problems. First I've
heard about the bios thingie.
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"WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You have an Intel 8088.


OK, that's what I thought.



>
> "Joe Zorzin" <abc@xyz> wrote in message
> news:10k1ar9jqg2uc3b@corp.supernews.com...
> > So which one do I have? Or, how would I find out? I know, I know, go to
> > Dell's web site- but I enjoy getting enlightened from you guys. <G>
> >
> > --
> > *************
> > Joe Zorzin
> >
> >
> > <ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
> > news:414071b0.4479242@news.charter.net...
> > > Name brand computer manufacturers have hardly ever used Intel internal
> > code
> > > names for chips on their invoices. "Prescott" is an
unofficial-official
> > Intel
> > > code name. In other words, Intel plays it both ways with its code
> names.
> > >
> > > For the most part, only the CPU pinout, FSB, CPU speed, and internal
> cache
> > size
> > > appear on invoices, plus today's current market names of Pentium 4 and
> > Celeron.
> > >
> > > ... Ben Myers
> > >
> > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:28:39 -0400, "Joe Zorzin" <abc@xyz> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >"Ron Reaugh" <rondashreaugh@att.net> wrote in message
> > > >news:IBL%c.331200$OB3.267257@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > > >>
> > > >> "Joe Zorzin" <abc@xyz> wrote in message
> > > >> news:10juvl1f4o8kffd@corp.supernews.com...
> > > >> > OK, I downloaded and ran that program from Intel which says my
CPU
> is
> > > >2.26
> > > >> > Ghz and with a 533 Mhz bus.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Ergo, it's a Prescot,
> > > >>
> > > >> NOT a Prescott.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >OK, then what is it? And, why don't manufacturers put the name of the
> > chip
> > > >on their invoice? It lists everything about the computer, but not the
> > chip-
> > > >as if to say that most users don't need such esoteric info- but we do
> if
> > we
> > > >want to upgrade, so it should be on the invoice.
> > > >
> > > >Joe
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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