<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>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!     <HR id=stopSpelling> > From: alan@popey.com > To: ubuntu-uk@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. </body> </html>