Warranty, Return Policy, and Year 2000 Statement of Compliance B-7 For Dell-branded hardware products shipped prior to January 1, 1997, that have anupgradable basic input/output system (BIOS), Dell makes available a BIOS upgrade.Although these products may not have been tested under the YMARK2000 test, Dellbelieves that the hardware would pass the YMARK2000 test, provided the appropri-ate BIOS upgrade is properly loaded.For Dell-branded hardware products that do not have an upgradable BIOS, Dell hasmade available, as a convenience to customers, the Dell Program Patch, a softwareutility designed to assist customers in managing the year 2000 rollover. #Dell specifically excludes all non-Dell-developed software from this compliance state-ment. All software run on Dell-branded hardware products should be independentlyverified by customers to be year 2000-compliant.The factory-installed software on your system is the current version provided by thesoftware manufacturer and is validated by Dell for installation. Dell recommends thatyou check each software manufacturer’s year 2000 Web site for updates to their prod-ucts. Links to a number of these Web sites can be found at the Dell year 2000 Websites.! ) For additional information on year 2000 compliance of Dell-branded hardware prod-ucts, refer to the following Dell year 2000 Web sites, or contact a Dell customerservice representative in your area: http://www.dell.com/year2000 (Americas) http://www.dell.com/jp/year2000 (Japan) http://www.euro.dell.com/year2000 (Europe) http://www.dell.com/ap/year2000 (Asia Pacific)