Re: OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios

2007-08-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
For the record, I had to set the RAM timing to 1:1 to slow the frontside bus down to 133MHz, with the CPU setting at 133 as is set by the "performance" default bios settings, in order to have stability. Memtest86+ was reporting errors otherwise. On 08/01/2007 03:49:03 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: H

OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios

2007-08-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, FYI. Some time ago I bought a cheap $150 Linspire box from Frys. (Great Quality PC, it says on the box.) I bought it because I knew Linspire did not ship binary-only drivers, so I knew the box would work with all distros. Sadly, Linspire has changed their policy and buying a box with thei