Have you tried replacing the battery? We had a similar problem with a number of 6 - 12 month old Optiplex systems and new batteries cured them. In bulk the CR2032 cells are about $1.00. www.batterybob.com As to the image issue, I understand and sympathize. Are you creating the image on one board and then moving the hard drive to the other to pick up the changes between systems? Don Bosman -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Joe Besko Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Alternatives to Dell destops On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Steve Bogdanski wrote: ... > Dell systems on the other hand is a breeze and they update systems for > quite sometime (3+ years). ... I only have one complaint/contradiction here. We have Dell Dimension 4400's and 4500's that _continuously_ lose their boot settings in the BIOS. Intel made a fix for this in their BIOS, but Dell never implemented i ...