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Robert,
The most important driver is an updated video card driver. If this doesn't
do it,
then I'd look into updating your bios. That may be one of the best things
about Dell,
is their engineering staff dedicated to keeping bios current with other
operating system/hardware
technology changes. They change every half year or so, but most update them
only when they have to.
But the procedures change with every bios revision, so its good to have
support beyond
word of mouth. Then I'd do Jimmy's suggestions in reverse: check other
drivers and then drop.
Phil
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Robert,
Drop the computer off the roof. No really just kidding. They are
BSing you. They don't know. What exactly happens or doesn't happen
when you try to boot up normally? Have you checked to see if every
single piece of hardware has updated drivers from the manufacturer's
site or one of the driver sites.
Jimmy
Saturday, December 25, 2004, 12:21:38 PM, you wrote:
R> Win 2000 has been giving me problems rebooting. It doesn't happen all
the
R> time but when she won't boot normally I have to resort to booting in safe
R> mode. MS technicians could not find the problem but suggested doing a
R> stress test. Can anyone tell me how this is done?
R> Robert
R> Fort Lauderdale
R> -----Original Message-----
R> From: Ivo Karindi [mailto:ivo@xxxxxxxxx]
R> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:40 AM
R> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
R> Subject: OT: Processor Stress-Testing
R> Remembering the heated discussions on the merits of different
R> processors, I thought I'd point you guys to tomshardware.com where
R> they are running live stress-testing (100% load) of both brands. So
R> far, after 5 days, things look good. Intel system has been rebooted 2
R> times, AMD 0 times, but otherwise both have been functioning well with
R> no downtime. Livecam can be viewed here:
R> http://www.tomshardware.com/stresstest/index.html
R> Ivo Karindi
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Best regards,
Jimmy mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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