Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

[Derek Ragona]

This sounds like it is offered as a 3rd party BIOS upgrade.  You didn't say 
who the manufacturer is, bust most of the better manufacturer's support 
their own BIOS updates directly.  Using a 3rd party BIOS is often used on 
non-support motherboards or older motherboards that are no longer 
supported, or for some special feature the original manufacturer does not 
support (different CPU's or controllers, etc.)

For a 3rd party BIOS, 39.95 is cheap.  They can be much higher, close to $100.

         -Derek

At 09:49 AM 4/5/2006, Thompson, Jimi wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>The system in question is loaded with FreeBSD.
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>TIA,
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>Jimi Thompson, CISSP
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