Hi,
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Teddy T. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The link to the Asus G741JM :
> http://www.asus.com/supportonly/g741jm/HelpDesk_Download/
I see five potential BIOS updates and two FAQs about flashing. But the
only choice seems to be (OS) "Windows 8.1 64-bit" or "Others". And
there's a "Windows BIOS Flash Utility". (In other words, everything
else is an afterthought.)
> This "gaming" model comes With Windows 8.1 and before Asus put the blame on
> FreeDOS I didn't even realise that FreeDOS was/could be on that machine
This has not been proven, at least to me. I don't see how "FreeDOS"
could be anywhere to be found. At least, Windows 8.1 (AFAIK, same as
Vista and above) won't even boot off of FAT anymore, and alternatively
(Free)DOS reads nothing but FAT, so no DOS (built-in or halfway
decent, even third-party) NTFS support, intentionally, by design.
> (I don't even know how I could exactly check this),
No offense, but how are we supposed to check for you? We have much
less info than you do, and certainly haven't been in contact with ASUS
(lately, if ever). Without physical access to the machine, how would
we be able to check?
> and if we decided to contact FreeDOS community is because I was sure that it
> could not be true
> that this boot issue could be related to any kind of DOS, and yes anyway if
> FreeDOS is really in Asus machines, it was Asus choice to use it so it's
> 100% their fault if their machines are not working...
I assume they had halfway tested all major functionality. But lots of
bugs slip through the cracks because it's impossible to test literally
everything. I'm sorry, but you're mistaken if you think everything
always works perfectly. It doesn't.
> at least it's what I
> think, and hopefully the court (it it ends there soon) will think the same.
I don't know why you're so optimistic that the court will side with
you. (Is such representation free for you?? I assume you wouldn't
waste good money on this!) Oftentimes, I was under the impression that
it's better to settle out of court before they get their hands on you
("pay the last penny"). And that goes for the little guy or the big
company. Maybe your country is different, who knows.
> After all, all we ask for is a computer that works like any other computer,
> neither better, nor less.
Teddy, when the machine is "designed for Windows" and "ASUS recommends
Windows" and all modern games "require Windows", do you really think
that booting alternate media is a high priority? I'm not trying to
downplay your claim, but you're very unlikely to get them to care.
Only geeks care, not companies. Unless Windows itself is broken, then
it still functions as designed.
> Oh, and for those who said that there's a risk of virus if ODD is boot
> option 1, I forgot to mention there's none because if there's a bootable
> disk inside computers will ask something like "Press any key to boot CD or
> DVD..." and boot option 2 if no key is pressed. :)
I don't think this decision was security related.
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