How do you know my motherboard isnt new?lol
Actually it did come with a disc to update the bios from the supplier...but
that was in windows!
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep
> 2007 10:41:25 +0100> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] CPU temps-Update> > > On Fri,
> 2007-09-07 at 08:20 +0000, STONE COLD wrote:> > didnt think i needed any..its
> a new motherboard so....!!!> > > > Hahaha, don't you believe it!> > Example.
> My brand new Toshiba laptop run at around half the speed that> it _should_
> under Linux. I benchmarked it and it was truly awful.> Looking on the Toshiba
> website I found a BIOS update that came out a> short while after I bought the
> laptop. It _required_ windows (which> irritated me no end) to install. So I
> backed up ubuntu, wiped the hard> disk and installed XP from the recovery CD
> - giving it only 10G, then> applied the BIOS update, reinstalled Ubuntu (in
> the remaining 90G) et> voila! It was much faster.> > BIOS updates can appear
> at any time after manufacture, and the> motherboard you have is far from new,
> it will have been physically> manufactured some weeks or months before.> >
> Cheers,> Al.
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