Anthony,
You have just hit my long term grumble (back to the 90's).
<rant ON>
For way too many years "BIOS" writers/owners have presented their
product to us without proper documentation. Mostly because WE can NOT
comprehend all the complexities of what they do.
As a minority, and, stoopid user, I say, "BullShit!"
If BIOS was easier to negotiate and deal with, I think many m/b
"failures" would never happen.
<rant off>
Best,
Duncan
On 01/08/2010 13:32, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Please don't feel bad on my account. I'm a big boy...I knew what could
potentially happen...that's why I had a back up. I don't believe in
holding other responsible for what I do anyway. Besides, I got back up
in record time and learned some stuff (like, dont' trust Win7 Backup And
Restore when it tells you it will let you have multiple images on a
nearly empty disc....it lies and will delete your prior image). But now
my new image is 21GB (and has most of my day-to-day bread and butter
apps built in with all apps pointing to data on a separate drive. I can
nuke the SSD now and be back to working strength in less than 30 minutes!
It would be nice of the BIOS had some decent documentation, though. Most
of them just aren't clear.
On 1/8/2010 1:09 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
It is things like this that make me gun-shy about
sending people into the BIOS anymore...
(Plus, they are ALL so different anymore...)
Especially on the lists I'm on where they ask:
what does "OS" and/or "MB" mean... <grin>
I thought it was at least fairly "safe" here.
(Sorry.)
Glad I never tried that setting. (wow)
(DSinc, sorry for your loss, but at least I was not involved, <grin>)
We need to go out and make sure they (the SSD people) spread the word!
Rick Glazier
From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <
It is a Gigabyte P35-DS4, Revision 2.0. It's a fairly old mobo, now.
Award Bios F14, recently updated.
Yeah, not much said about it. Pretty scary that one setting like this
can render a system unbootable...
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