Laptops

[Josh Johnson]

Weird, it works for me. If you're using lynx or something it may not 
forward. but it forwards to this page:

http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Cyber Source wrote:

> That link doesnt go anywhere
>
> Josh Johnson wrote:
>
>>  On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Cyber Source wrote:
>> 
>> >  I think one of the most important things to look for in a laptop or any 
>> >  pc/motherboard that is often overlooked is the BIOS.
>> 
>>
>>  I don't know if anyone else has seen this or not, but my next mobo will
>>  definitely be one of the supported chipsets so that I can try this out:
>>
>>  http://www.linuxbios.org
>> 
>> 
>> >  I have spent plenty of time working around really bad simplistic BIOS. 
>> >  IMHO if it has a phoenix BIOS, RUN AND DON'T LOOK BACK ;). Laptops and 
>> >  cheap pc's seem to be the worst at this. I have been able to put boot 
>> >  options in to workaround these things but it can be a real pain and time 
>> >  consumer to figure out what's what. I had an HP laptop in here once 
>> >  (they should just stick to printers) that almost got punted because of 
>> >  such a crap BIOS. But I did not punt it and worked on it for about 4 
>> >  hours figuring out what PCI IRQ's to isolate, etc. and finally came up 
>> >  with the right formula and then it worked beautiful, onboard ati chipset 
>> >  modem and all! So now when people bring there laptops or cheap pc's in, 
>> >  BIOS is the first thing I look at.
>> > 
>> >  Joshua Ronne Altemoos wrote:
>> > 
>> > >  Hey,
>> > > 
>> > >  I have some questions this may be ot maybbee. But i am looking for a
>> > >  brand/model of laptop that is not nesscarly a desktop replacement but
>> > >  i do not want to notice the differnce. It needs to be linux
>> > >  complatibale but will be used for windows also since the college login
>> > >  for the network is window domain based. I want to be able to burn cds
>> > >  and dvds and play dvd movies very well. Prefeered to be a dell but any
>> > >  suggestions are good.
>> > > 
>> > >  Thanks
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > 
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