On 12/11/2012 03:04, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote:
This sounds scary!!! Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in
the BIOS?
With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells
you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot
order.
That's exactly the case with this notebook. No settings whatsoever
beyond date/time and boot order.
Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to
manage the machine you bought from them? O_O
I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't
even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the
settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...)
This machine is long since out of warranty; they won't even speak to me
anymore. I was able to use a hex editor to modify the white list at one
time, but it didn't matter because the "hardware" radio switch doesn't
work with different cards, either, leaving the radio in a permanently
off state.
Someday, I'll get a more professional notebook, but until then, I'm
stuck with the patched broadcom-sta. It does seem to be working fine for
now, so I'm not terribly worried. As much as I would prefer to have an
open source driver, I also need my machine to work.
--
♫Dustin
