[ubuntu-uk] CPU temps-Update

[STONE COLD]

How do you know my motherboard isnt new?lol
 
Actually it did come with a disc to update the bios from the supplier...but that was in windows! 
 
 



> From: alan at popey.com> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:41:25 +0100> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] CPU temps-Update> > > 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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