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Article #40Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: Big and Blue
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:09
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:09
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§ñühwØ£f 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.
--
Just because I've written it doesn't mean that
either you or I have to believe it.
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