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Let \[ f^{(n)}+ P_{n-1}(z) f^{(n-1)}+\cdots+ P_0(z)f= H(z),\quad n\geq 1,\tag{\(*\)} \] denote the nonhomogeneous linear differential equation, where \(P_0(z),P_1(z),\dots, P_{n-1}(z)\) are polynomials \((P_0(z)\not\equiv 0)\) and \(H(z)\not\equiv 0\) is an entire function. The fact that every solution \(f\) to \((*)\) is an entire function is well-known. The authors investgate equations of the form \((*)\) which possess solutions \(f\) satisfying \(\lambda(f)<\rho(f)\), i.e. solutions which have a Borel exceptional value at zero, where \(\rho(f)\) denotes the order of \(f\) and when \(f\not\equiv 0\), \(\lambda(f)\) denotes the exponent of convergence of the sequence of zeros of \(f\).