you're interested in I can look in the BIOS for that board and see if
the option is in there. As long as it is an Award BIOS. We have the
tools for AMI BIOS too but they aren't that good.
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:14 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: PC Mod? (Was: Re: Home PC Names (Was: RE: CF Salary Range))
Interesting... does Asus (ar anyone else) make Mini- or Micro-ATX boards
with that capability? I've been kicking around the idea of firing up
the ol' Dremel and converting an old lightning-fried Mac SE into a
full-bore PC... pulling out the guts, widening the disk drive mouth for
a slot-loading DVD drive and replacing the 9" screen with an LCD... and
probably mounting the works vertically so I can put in enough silicon to
be able to cart it around to LAN parties.
I think there's plenty of room inside, but the thing that seals the deal
for me is the ability for the mobo to sound the Mac "chime" when it
boots up. I was investigating soldering an IC chip and a piezo speaker
into the works, but if there's something that will do it natively,
that'll be perfect.
- Jim
Kevin Graeme wrote:
>Also, ASUS motherboards support a spoken POST status message. Mine has
a
>woman's voice that says something about "Hardware setup complete" or
>something like that when it POSTs. (It only worked through the onboard
>speakers, and I'm using a different sound card.)
>
>I don't know, but you might be able to alter the recorded messages. If
you
>need, I've got a decent sample of Joshua saying "How about a nice game
of
>chess?"
>
>-Kevin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ben Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:53 AM
>Subject: RE: Home PC Names (Was: RE: CF Salary Range)
>
>
>
>
>>Jim,
>>
>> Are you trying to put that message in the Compaq system? I might be
>>able to do it for you depending on what type of BIOS is in the system.
I
>>did BIOS engineering for the company I just left 3 weeks ago, but
still
>>have access to all the tools and source code for building BIOS. If you
>>go to www.esupport.com <http://www.esupport.com/>
<http://www.esupport.com/%3e> and click on the BIOS
>>Agent on the front page, run that and save the results to a text file
>>and send it to me. I'll be able to see what the BIOS is and see if I
can
>>put the bitmap into it.
>>
>>
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:50 AM
>>To: CF-Community
>>Subject: Re: Home PC Names (Was: RE: CF Salary Range)
>>
>>
>>
>>I have an old Compaq Presario that's my proxy/firewall and a secondary
>>fileserver that looks just like comic book character after which it's
>>named "Juggernaut" and my main computer is WOPR.
>>
>>I've been trying to find BIOS hacks that will let me have the computer
>>write "Greetings, Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?"
>>before the OS boots.
>>
>>I have some others - Winken, Blinken and Nod as well.
>>
>>- Jim
>>
>>Saidi, Marwan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Heh, this makes me smile....
>>>
>>>We have the following PCs at home:
>>>Pinky (mine)
>>>Brain (Web and File server)
>>>Jesterette (my wife)
>>>Hermione (my daughter)
>>>Harry (my son)
>>>
>>>And our Linux boxen at work (CF server, staging server, webserver)
>>>Snoopy
>>>Woodstock
>>>Pigpen
>>>
>>>Soooo, any other good ones out there?
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:54 PM
>>>To: CF-Community
>>>Subject: Re: Re:CF Salary Range
>>>
>>>
>>>lol weebles wobble but they don't fall down?
>>>
>>>I call mine "fred"
>>>
>>>Dana
>>>
>>>Erika L Walker-Arnold writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>well, I was thinking that ugly creamy/yellow case color and
jaundiced
>>>>seemed to fit ... so thought maybe a sunburn would help ;)
>>>>
>>>>Actually, our computers name's are Weebl, Bob, Snoopy, Woody and Pie
>>>>
>>>>/me runs ....
>>>>
>>>>:D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:44 PM
>>>>To: CF-Community
>>>>Subject: Re: Re:CF Salary Range
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>::Squints:: you've named your computer Alfred or something haven't
you
>>>>")
>>>>And wouldn't needing some sun make him pale not jaundiced?
>>>>D
>>>>ana
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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