[ale] beware warranties on refurbished/reconditioned computers

[Brian MacLeod]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> No, you are not the problem here. Think about what a BIOS is and what
> it does. There is no reason for you to have to be careful not to
> destroy your BIOS. In 25 years of computing I have never lost a BIOS.
> I have flashed them for vanity (messages or images on boot up) or
> because I wanted to use memory it wasn't intended to use, but never
> because they needed disaster recovery. This is a hardware flaw.
>


I was actually talking about why I have crashes in the various OS's, not the
BIOS.   I actually think the ability to have an out on the BIOS such as this
is a benefit.  Too many machines will die if a BIOS update fails to complete
correctly, this one you can always try again.

bnm
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