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

[§ñühw¤£f <snuhwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Meat Plow 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.
>
Yep. Interesting how he snipped the link to the workaround :)

M$ appologist perhaps?

http://howflow.com/tricks/medion_md_98300_fan_control