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Originally Posted by id10t
Dells are somewhat proprietary as far as that goes.
However... they are also really good about keeping old drivers, etc. available and around (at least for the optiplex and other business/corporate lines) for a VERY long time.
Look on the back of the machine, there will be a service tag on it (6 or 8 digit code IIRC) and an express service code (longer and has hyphens in it IIRC). That should let you access all of the BIOS updates, whatever latest drivers for whatever OSes were shipped/supported with that model new, etc.
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I'll check into this. Thanx
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Originally Posted by flipper35
Guaranteed it is ATX or a sub of it if you are running Vista.
I would leave it on and just set the drive(s) and monitors to sleep and avoid the heat cyclces on the old board.
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Its what I have been doing but, every once in a while we have an outage when someone down the road decides to take out a power pole or, a transformer gives up the ghost.
Needless to say, I have everything backed up.
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