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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: §ñühw¤£f <snuhwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:15:00 -0600
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux, uk.comp.homebuilt, 24hoursupport.helpdesk

Conor wrote:
> In article <Rc-dneAF9umxxxbVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>, Big and Blue
> says...
>> §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.
>
> How the fuck does the motherboard know what OS it's running, dumbass?
>
Uhhhhh...I assume that the OS tells the mobo what version it is so the
mobo BIOS can make adjustment in th ACPI?

http://howflow.com/tricks/medion_md_98300_fan_control

:)

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