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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:01:33 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?, BIOS

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In <3C784EC5.12A40BE@charter.net>, on 02/23/02
at 06:24 PM, Ray Davison said:

>Have you ever gotten a current BIOS from the manufacturer of an old MB?

Depends on how old and it varies by vendor. IBM just released an update
for my 770x which is probably 3+ years old. I've gotten updates from ASUS
for boards in 2+ years old range. These have all been free.

FWIW, if you read the blurb at the Award site, they state that they do not
sell to end-users and recommend you contact the MB manufacturer for BIOS
updates. Award probably sent you to the 3rd party contact because they
assumed you read their advice and that your MB vendor was gone. The 3rd
party BIOS vendors are useful if you have specialized needs, but as you
found, they charge for satisfying a niche market.

The situation with device drivers used to be similar. The chipset vendor
would send you to the adapter vendor for drivers. However, since these
days so many of the adapter vendors are just manufacturing to a reference
design, the chipset vendors tend to make drivers available to end-users.

Steven

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