My Dell Inspiron just magicially became a Latitude

DnetMHZ

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Just had a dell technician replace the mobo in my insprion 8000
now it thinks it is a latitude c800 (they apparently use the same motherboard)
Now i need to run the flash bios update for the inspiron with the top secret /jabil option for do a "full"
flash back to Inspiron.. I would have done it while the tech was here, but I'm stupid and forgot my floppy drive today.

just thought I'd share that...incase it happens to anyone else in the future
 

ElFenix

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Mar 20, 2000
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omg the latitudes and inspirons aer teh same?!? who woulda guessed!?!
 

I'm loading a Dell c400 right now. I despise laptops with no internal drives!
 

HappyPuppy

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The tech was supposed to flash the bios before he/she left. Also was supposed to enter the Service Tag number into the bios in order to maintain your warranty.