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Zachman123
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September 2nd, 2004 20:00
8250 NEW BIOS NEEDED
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
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
Message Edited by Zachman123 on 09-02-2004 05:17 PM
Zachman123
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Posted November 30th, 2005 19:00
I have a different computer now, but while I had the 8250 I ended up making myself a cd to boot into linux using a USB hard drive. If you want it I can try to find it. As for other operating systems than linux, you're on your own. Windows 98 (maybe ME) should be possible (using a boot cd/floppy) using mscdex and drivers.
Tell me exactly what you're trying to do and I can try to help.
TonyK2
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Posted November 30th, 2005 02:00
Z it's been four years since your posting and we still can't boot from a USB on the 8250! Is there a software solution since it looks like Dell has abandon us.
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