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Article #41Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: Folderol
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:21
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:21
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:30:03 -0400 Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +0100, Big and Blue wrote: > > > §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. > > That's what happens in a perfect world. Hmmm. I'd never even heard of Foxcon before this thread popped up. Just how cheap are these mobos? I can buy quite a civilised one here for under 30ukp. -- Will J G
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