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On 12/11/2012 03:04, Nuno J. Silva wrote: |
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> On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: |
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>> This sounds scary!!! Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in |
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>> the BIOS? |
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> |
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> With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells |
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> you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot |
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> order. |
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> |
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That's exactly the case with this notebook. No settings whatsoever |
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beyond date/time and boot order. |
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>> Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to |
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>> manage the machine you bought from them? O_O |
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> |
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> I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't |
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> even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the |
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> settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...) |
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> |
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This machine is long since out of warranty; they won't even speak to me |
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anymore. I was able to use a hex editor to modify the white list at one |
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time, but it didn't matter because the "hardware" radio switch doesn't |
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work with different cards, either, leaving the radio in a permanently |
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off state. |
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Someday, I'll get a more professional notebook, but until then, I'm |
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stuck with the patched broadcom-sta. It does seem to be working fine for |
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now, so I'm not terribly worried. As much as I would prefer to have an |
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open source driver, I also need my machine to work. |
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♫Dustin |
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