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

[Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:30:03 -0400
Meat Plow <meat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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