[ubuntu-uk] CPU temps-Update

[Alan Pope]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:20 +0000, STONE COLD wrote:
> didnt think i needed any..its a new motherboard so....!!!
> 

Hahaha, don't you believe it!

Example. My brand new Toshiba laptop run at around half the speed that
it _should_ under Linux. I benchmarked it and it was truly awful.
Looking on the Toshiba website I found a BIOS update that came out a
short while after I bought the laptop. It _required_ windows (which
irritated me no end) to install. So I backed up ubuntu, wiped the hard
disk and installed XP from the recovery CD - giving it only 10G, then
applied the BIOS update, reinstalled Ubuntu (in the remaining 90G) et
voila! It was much faster.

BIOS updates can appear at any time after manufacture, and the
motherboard you have is far from new, it will have been physically
manufactured some weeks or months before.

Cheers,
Al.
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