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Raffaele BELARDI posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:22:50 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> It's specific to brands of BIOS. Both AMI BIOS (mine) and Award |
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>> BIOS have a recovery procedure, tho the other one (IDR the name) and |
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>> vendors such as Dell may not. |
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> The other one (mine) is Phoenix. I was about to write that it does not |
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> support recovery, but maybe I'm wrong: |
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> http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21209 |
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Thanks. So we know that all three of the big guys have recovery, but |
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some mfrs turn it off for their BIOS versions, for some reason. |
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Also, until reading that topic, I didn't know that USB based floppy- |
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drives would work, but they apparently do at least for PhoenixBIOS. I |
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still have a "real" floppy connector and drive on my machine. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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