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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:55:07 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.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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On 23 Feb 2002 at 18:24, Ray Davison wrote:
> They wanted sixty dollars.
> Have you ever gotten a current BIOS from the manufacturer of an old MB?

I don't remember getting updates from BIOS vendors, but from lots
of motherboard and system vendors, including IBM, Dell, etc and a
bunch of Taiwan types from Fry's specials. Never any charge,
usually available for download from their web. Most recently I could
not find one from a Taiwan manufacturer ("DFI") for a several year
old board I bought from a friend who had upgraded. I emailed them
and they emailed me a flash that fixed my problem (to fix the 35 gig
disk limit I described here recently). By the way, I didn't know the
manufacturer, didn't have a web site, didn't remember Tim's FCC
search, so I searched Yahoo with the board model number, which
was the only identifier I knew, and up popped DFI with web pages
describing my board with a whole bunch of flash updates, manuals,
etc. Fairly typical offerings in my experience.

Peter started this. I hope you'll let us know how it turns out. You've
got us curious now. I'm betting he whips it.

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