From: "Robert Comer" 

Hmm, I have a DELL NT4 box that wont shutdown properly -- I wonder if it's
the same cause.  (it would pay me to change NIC's if so...

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:402fbba8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Not quite antti, the setiqueue server I run is on one of those dells and
I'm
> still dealing with this nonsense. Dell still says for that model no
service
> packs from MS, I still don't listen to them. When I go to windows update I
> still have to be careful not to accept the IntelPro100 driver update as it
> will make it so I can't do a proper shutdown but I've solved that too by
> putting a powerswitch there so I can powercycle the stupid box.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
> news:402fb7d6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > This was something like 15 years ago - Geo got fed up with dell's
because
> of
> > their non-standard drivers and hasn't updated his knowledge on the
subject
> > since . I've happily used windowsupdate on our 50 or so dell's at
work
> > with no problem. I haven't seen dell supplied service packs even
mentioned
> > anywhere.
> >
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
> >
> > "Ellen K."
 wrote in message
> > news:na9v2056dnk432goshh9n4vc5thjhn1qdg{at}4ax.com...
> > > They do?
> > >
> > > How do I get Dell service packs?
> > >
> > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:51 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> > > message :
> > >
> > > >dell even
> > > >tells you that you can't install NT service packs on
their computers
> you
> > > >have to get the dell supplied and approved service packs.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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