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    Nx860xl Bios

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Sirosis, Oct 13, 2006.

  1. Sirosis

    Sirosis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sirosis, Oct 13, 2006
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    10 days old post ....
    my opinion is that if u have no issue with your system performance, then no need for bios update

    but on the other hand, i m a crazy type that loves to play with fire and would update to any official version after on week of inroduction, just to make sure that no problem arises

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 23, 2006
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  3. DanaGoyette

    DanaGoyette Notebook Consultant

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    I noticed only two things in the BIOS (mine's an M685): Wireless now returns to state at shutdown upon boot, and ACPI brightness is now available. This lets Vista control the LCD brightness in software, but it also makes it so the brightness control crashes Xorg in Linux.

    Oh yeah, if you have a chance, could you boot some Linux LiveCD (any distro), cat /proc/acpi/dsdt into a file, and attach that here?
     
    DanaGoyette, Oct 27, 2006
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