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Not a Big Fan of Optiplex 760 so Far. 0_o

Someone come in here and tell me that I shouldn't be so very angry at this particular computer model. I know computers aren't sentient (yet), but my first interactions with this computer have not been pleasant. Initially it seems that the system can't handle Windows 7 without a BIOS update (machine came refurbished with A02 BIOS, the current version is A13), and so I put together a Vista PE environment to try to update the BIOS, and now it is having issues installing this updated BIOS. I have tried repeatadly with the same error.

See:
http://itninja.com/question/update-dell-optiplex-760-bios

http://itninja.com/question/optiplex-760-has-very-strange-slow-behavior


Out of vengeance I was able to update the BIOS of a Optiplex 740 with no issue at all. Ugh. 

 

Posted 12 years ago 5860 views

Comments

  • I have heard nothing good about the 760's. Also if you are looking at the 990 SFF we had a lot of issues with the first batch having a bad bios that fried the power supplies. - ohiosoundguy 12 years ago
    • oof, delightful. - muebel 12 years ago
  • I was able to figure this one out. - muebel 12 years ago
  • We have not had any problems with the 990 towers looks like it is good we passed on the SFF - shigbee 12 years ago
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