Posted by Ken Maltby on 05/29/06 19:08

"werty" <werty@swissinfo.org> wrote in message
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>
> For eons M.B. makers have been reluctant to do clever programming
> for their M.B. I/O ...
> It is so bad , people sometimes blame Windows.
>
> And some M.B. makers have earned a reputation for solving
> these problems , but they still recieve little attention from the
> budget
> M.B. users .
>
> IWILL of Taiwan boots their old XA-100 with Linux . Not saying
> Linux
> is great but that IWILL had big troubles even developing their BIOS
> using anything Microsoft ( C+ et al ) .
> They "tried" harder and found Linux was far less trouble
> in BIOS customization on the chip set .
>
> Still no light at end of tunnel , M.B.'s are still using such obtuse
> hardware
> compared to the future PC's ( using ARM S.O.C.'s ).
>
>
>
> ASUS and GIGBYTE are low cost M.B.'s ...
> My A7V600 would absolutely LOCK , NO BOOT ! Cleared the CMOS to
> make it limp along ....
>
>
>
> Anyone downloading a BIOS upgrade is admitting they did not
> get it right at first , so why do you expect them to get it right now
> ?!!
>
> If they recall the M.B. maybe you can trust them , but certainly not
> "stringing" you along thru 5 upgrades !!
>

Do your parents know you are posting on the internet?

/Ken

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