Hello again from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
I've been following this discussion with some interest, and noticed
some patterns. This board, that Dennis Dowling is grouching about is
definitely a motherboard built by that division of Intel? I have, in
my spare system, an S1468 from Titan, I have re-flashed the BIOS using
an update disk from their web site. The chosen chipset is a 430FX
type, currently wearing a Pentium running at 100MHz. I know, I know,
it is an old fellow, but when it was built it was considered state of
the art. It was wearing a BIOS made by Award, now part of Phoenix.
There is, someplace on it, a jumper that needs to be reset, to do that
process on my board. And would you believe? I did not have to do that.
Actually the reasoning behind Intel, is that they are afraid somebody
will dump the BIOS, and copy it. Why do suppose that all Japanese
computers are wearing US, or European processors? Also personal to
Ron, just how upset is your friend? And you are right about Windows.
It is in the same position of Heisenberg, not only was he right, he
was absolutely right. Sorry I could not resist that statement.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Ronald G Minnich
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:19 PM
> To: Denis Dowling
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Installing Linuxbios on an L440GX+
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Denis Dowling wrote:
>
> > My theory is that Intel is withholding this information in a vain
> > attempt at stopping virus writers from attacking the
> BIOS. A readonly
> > jumper on the motherboard would have been a better
> solution in this
> > case.
>
> you could be right. After all, under Windows, anything is possible.
>
> ron
>
