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Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS

Subject: Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: Big and Blue <No_4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux, uk.comp.homebuilt, 24hoursupport.helpdesk


§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.


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