Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-25 00:08:25, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Asus use Crash-Free BIOS. > > The update tool (EZ-BIOS) can not be changed. > > It works always even if you have had a Power-Fail. > > That was the answer I was hoping for! > > Thanks. As I was reading this thread, I was wondering since sev

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-25 00:08:25, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Asus use Crash-Free BIOS. > > The update tool (EZ-BIOS) can not be changed. > > It works always even if you have had a Power-Fail. > > That was the answer I was hoping for! > > Thanks. As I was reading this thread, I was wondering since sev

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:26:31AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long do they sustain operation if the power fails? -- hendrik It all depends on how power hungry your machine is. LCD is more efficient than CRT, a Cool 'n Quiet AMD

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:36:23PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-08-15 20:26:30, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Do you happen to know how screwed you are if the power fails during the > > BIOS update? Or is the BIOS update governed by another nonupdatable BIOS? > > Asus use Crash-Free

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Colin
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > So, in this same vein, does linux recognize events from a USB(i think) > connected UPS? I have some of my boxen on UPS with the monitors on > regular power to give me more uptime on them. THe idea is to recognize > that we've gone to UPS power and gracefully take the

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:26:31AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long do they sustain operation if the power fails? -- hendrik It all depends on how power hungry your machine is. LCD is more efficient than

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:26:31AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > > >How long do they sustain operation if the power fails? > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > It all depends on how power hungry your machine is. LCD is more > efficient than CRT, a Cool 'n Quiet AM

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-15 20:26:30, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Do you happen to know how screwed you are if the power fails during the > BIOS update? Or is the BIOS update governed by another nonupdatable BIOS? Asus use Crash-Free BIOS. The update tool (EZ-BIOS) can not be changed. It works always even if

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:19:37AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a high quality APC UPS? -- hendrik Is that a statement? You do have question mark at the end

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-21 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:19:37AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a > >high quality APC UPS? > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > Is that a statement? You do have question mark at the end of the sentence.

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a high quality APC UPS? -- hendrik Is that a statement? You do have question mark at the end of the sentence. Too bad. You can get a name brand UPS for about 35.00 USD these days. Nick -- To U

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-16 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:30:21PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > >>Michelle Konzack wrote: > >> > >>>??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. > >>> > >>> is for bypassing all those bootsectors

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: ??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. is for bypassing all those bootsectors... Greetings Michelle Konzack Right. You burn the BIOS update file --and m

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > >??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. > > > > is for bypassing all those bootsectors... > > > >Greetings > >Michelle Konzack > > > > > > Right. You burn the BIOS update file --and maybe an

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Michelle Konzack wrote: ??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. is for bypassing all those bootsectors... Greetings Michelle Konzack Right. You burn the BIOS update file --and maybe another file or two, don't quite remember-- to a CD ROM, pop that in your drive, hit F8, pick

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-14 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> Am 2006-06-09 10:35:22, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > During the BIOS post. In the lower right hand corner it says "Press > > > F8 for boot menu" Let's me boot from either of the two dvd drives I > > > have when I wanna play with Linux Live CDs, even though the boot > > > pritority in the B

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-06-09 10:35:22, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > During the BIOS post. In the lower right hand corner it says "Press F8 > > for boot menu" Let's me boot from either of the two dvd drives I have > > when I wanna play with Linux Live CDs, even though the boot pritority in > > the BIOS is set

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-09 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> During the BIOS post. In the lower right hand corner it says "Press F8 > for boot menu" Let's me boot from either of the two dvd drives I have > when I wanna play with Linux Live CDs, even though the boot pritority in > the BIOS is set to boot from the first hard disk. If you use lilo, try wi

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: In comparison, my Asus A8N-SLI Premium board can be updated just as you described: from just burning a CD-ROM with the latest BIOS. All this before loading the OS. Not only that, but hitting F8 gives you a

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: > > In comparison, my Asus A8N-SLI Premium board can be updated just as you > described: from just burning a CD-ROM with the latest BIOS. All this > before loading the OS. Not only that, but hitting F8 gives you a nice > boot menu fr

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
Michelle Konzack wrote: MSI is crap... I prefer a Bullet-Proof Tyan!!! Greetings Michelle Konzack I prefer Tyan also, but with the latest Tyan Tomcat K8E I purchased, you still need a DOS floppy to do a BIOS upgrade. What is up with that? I did manage to Google some esoteric instr

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-26 14:48:55, schrieb lee: > Hm, how do I do it? I can download a BIOS and burn it onto a CD, but > what do I do then? Neither the website nor the manual has useful > information to that. What about reading the manual to the Mainboard. It is called EZ-BIOS or Crashfree-BIOS. The file

Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-05-26 Thread lee
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:55:27PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > And second, it does not only work with Floppy... burn the BIOS onto a > CD and it works too. > > All of my AsusTek mainboards (K7 and K8) have the same EZ-BIOS no need > for stupid DOS-FLASH-TOOLS... They are outdated! Hm, how