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September 2nd, 2004 20:00

8250 Bootable USB device support

As (at lease from what I've seen), many people are concerned/angry/whatever you want to call it about the lack of being able to boot from a usb device on the Dell Dimension 8250 (possibly along with other systems). This is a much wanted feature that many other computers have, as well as other dell models.
I expected my new system (not new now of course) to come with this relatively standard feature. Instead, I'm looking towards getting a new computer and because of the lack of standard features I may not consider a Dell as I have in the past.

If someone from Dell is reading this, could you please tell your supervisor/support/programming division/etc that a new version of BIOS for the Dimension 8250 with Bootable USB support should be created.
I know an argument will be "it's an older model, support/etc. has ended", but because of this, you may/will lose some Dell customers.
Thank You
-Zach
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    Posted September 3rd, 2004 12:00

    Zachman123,

    Welcome to the Dell Community Forum (DCF).

    You made sure the USB Emulation and USB Controller were on in the setup?


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    Posted September 3rd, 2004 13:00

    Yes they are both on, from what I've read the issue is that unlike other Dells/other computers, "USB Device" is not an option in the boot order so it is not possible to boot from USB.