Windows XP Sucks!

[David Boles]

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Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thursday November 29 2007 5:37:34 pm David Boles wrote:
>> A BIOS manual? Never seen one from a motherboard maker. What
>> you might find are BIOS updates and patches. What you
>> *probably* have is a .exe to change your BIOS. *Could* be a
>> bad thing.
>>
>> Who made the BIOS and what version/release is it?
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> Howstuffworks "How BIOS Works"
>>
>> http://www.howstuffworks.com/bios1.htm
>>
>> There a plenty of Google hits.
> 
> speaking of Google hits, did you try "BIOS manual" - they do 
> exist, but, one must never miss an opportunity to pile on Karl, 
> must one?


You talking to me? I was trying to help the guy. Any BIOS manual that I
have ever seen was very simple to say the least. It sounded to me like
he was looking for real details.


> speaking of this subject, I do remember reading about a new 
> feature in some motherboard a couple of months ago, an embedded 
> Linux on a chip that you could boot into with a couple of 
> keystrokes - one of the things it would let you do once booted, 
> was flash your BIOS if you were connected to the internet


The last several MBs that I have had had a built-in flash system. I have
not needed to do that for some time. Last time was with a bootable floppy.


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  David

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