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Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: stock bull who wrote (86188)	12/21/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 176387

Stock Bull - the 'bits' are not loaded onto disk as you or I would do it, instead a pre-configured disk image is loaded onto the hard drive before the drive is loaded into the machine. In some cases additional stuff is added but this is extremely rare as it is time consuming, and manufacturing time is DELL's enemy. This method is the most reliable and the fastest, and also the one which complies with most licensing policies including MSFT. There are a couple of ways that a BIOS 'problem' could slip through QA. The most likely of these is that the customer requested a 'special' BIOS, and was instead shipped the standard one. These machines have FLASH BIOS, so it's not like you have to pull the chips out to do a BIOS change. A slightly less likely scenario would be a failure of the 'FLASH' process which rendered the final machine configuration unbootable. This is not that hard to do, I have done it myself. But a special configuration, even in these volumes, would probably get additional QA, so it seems unlikely that the machines were left in that state.

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