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Article #25Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: §ñühw¤£f
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12
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Meat Plow wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +0100, Big and Blue wrote: > >> ���hwأf wrote: >> >>> Theres a hack for Grub that tells the mobo its runniing windoze. >> >> Which, to me at least, indicates that the problem lies in the > motherboard. >> The motherboard shouldn't need to know what OS is running. >> It should support a standard API and the OS should ask standard >> questions through that API. > > That's what happens in a perfect world. > Yep. Interesting how he snipped the link to the workaround :) M$ appologist perhaps? http://howflow.com/tricks/medion_md_98300_fan_control
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