Upgrading to SP2 on a Celeron Processor

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From: Greg (Greg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:07:02 -0800

Hi,
we deployed XP SP2 today via SMS, and afterwards discovered that two of our
machines (Dell Dimension 2350s with Celeron Processors) will no longer
bootup. The BIOS on this machine (A02) has not been updated by Dell since
2003, I believe.
Would anyone know of this issue and how it may have been resolved? I would
LOVE to be able to update the BIOS or some other fix that would enable me to
save my users' harddrives! (please don't shoot me, as no, I am not utilizing
system restore - not even sure it would work in this case anyway, but...)
Any thoughts folks?
Thanks very much! 

-- 
Greg Gardner
IT Systems Engineer

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