On Mon Aug 19 12:25:33 EDT 2013, a...@9srv.net wrote: > Erik's explanation certainly makes sense, but here's an > alternative possibility. In the past, I've set up the bios on > a system a certain way, then accidentally written to > #r/nvram (which isn't really useful on a PC), and had the > bios reset to factory defaults. Behavior of the bios after > writing that file is bios-dependent, but it's easy to test.
i happen to have that machine, and i have not seen that behavior with any version of bios up to 1.2a. perhaps we haven't written to #r/nvram. - erik
