EXHIBIT 99.2

                         NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY
                                 FOR TENDER OF
                 3 3/4% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2024
                                       OF

                            BELL MICROPRODUCTS INC.
                PURSUANT TO ITS EXCHANGE OFFER DESCRIBED IN THE
                       PROSPECTUS DATED NOVEMBER 16, 2004

     This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery or one substantially equivalent must be
used to accept the Exchange Offer (as defined below) if the procedures for
book-entry transfer cannot be completed on a timely basis. This Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery may be delivered by hand or sent by facsimile transmission,
overnight courier, telex, telegram or mail to the Exchange Agent. See "The
Exchange Offer -- Guaranteed Delivery Procedures" in the Prospectus dated
November 16, 2004 (the "Prospectus" which, together with the related Letter of
Transmittal, constitutes the "Exchange Offer") of Bell Microproducts Inc., a
California corporation (the "Company").

                 THE EXCHANGE AGENT FOR THE EXCHANGE OFFER IS:

                     WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

                                                 
         By Registered or Certified Mail:                     By Overnight Delivery or Hand:
        Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue,                  Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue,
                    17th Floor                                          17th Floor
           Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479                        Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
               Attn: Jane Schweiger                                Attn: Jane Schweiger

             To Confirm by Telephone                             Facsimile Transmissions:
               or for Information:
                                                             (For Eligible Institutions Only)
                  (800) 344-5128                                      (612) 667-6282
                  (612) 667-9764



     DELIVERY OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY TO AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN AS
SET FORTH ABOVE OR TRANSMISSION OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY VIA A
FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION TO A NUMBER OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT
CONSTITUTE A VALID DELIVERY.

     THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY IS NOT TO BE USED TO GUARANTEE
SIGNATURES. IF A SIGNATURE ON A LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL IS REQUIRED TO BE
GUARANTEED BY AN "ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION" UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS THERETO, SUCH
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MUST APPEAR IN THE APPLICABLE SPACE PROVIDED ON THE LETTER
OF TRANSMITTAL.


                   THE FOLLOWING GUARANTEE MUST BE COMPLETED
                             GUARANTEE OF DELIVERY
                    (NOT TO BE USED FOR SIGNATURE GUARANTEE)

     The undersigned, a firm which is a member of a registered national
securities exchange or a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or
correspondent in the United States, hereby guarantees to deliver to the Exchange
Agent, at one of its addresses set forth above, by confirmation of the
book-entry transfer of such Old Notes to the Exchange Agent's account at The
Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), pursuant to the procedures for book-entry
transfer set forth in the Prospectus, together with any other documents required
by the Letter of Transmittal, within three New York Stock Exchange trading days
after the date of execution of this Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

     The undersigned acknowledges that it must deliver the Old Notes tendered
hereby to the Exchange Agent within the time period set forth above and that
failure to do so could result in a financial loss to the undersigned.

                                                 

Name of
Firm: ----------------------------------------      -------------------------------------------------
                                                                 (AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE)

Address: ----------------------------------------   Title: ----------------------------------------

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                                                    Name: ----------------------------------------
                   (ZIP CODE)
                                                                 (PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT)

Area Code and Telephone Number:

-------------------------------------------------   Date:
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NOTE: DO NOT SEND OLD NOTES WITH THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY. ACTUAL
SURRENDER OF OLD NOTES MUST BE MADE PURSUANT TO, AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY, A
PROPERLY COMPLETED AND FULLY EXECUTED LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND ANY OTHER
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS.

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