Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

[fbsd_user]

For that kind of money you can get a bios replacement
chip from unicore.   www.unicore.com
Which probably is better and contains more functions
that the mfg would provide.

I have never had to pay the mfg for a bios burnable upgrade.

Who is the motherboard mfg?
I would like to know so I don't buy their motherboards in the
future.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Thompson,
Jimi
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:50 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic


I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous
problem.
I've got a system with a BIOS issue.  The motherboard maker has
decided
to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me
the
BIOS update that I need to fix the system.



I thought I post here, even though it's a bit off topic to see if
any of
you have encountered anything similar and to see what you've done to
resolve the issue.



The system in question is loaded with FreeBSD.



TIA,



Jimi Thompson, CISSP

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