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Re: Asus A8V Deluxe, Xfree display problems with BIOS 1011



Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 04.05.2005, 15:41 +0000 schrieb Jean-Luc Coulon
(f5ibh):

> I've asked Asus support, the reply (In French) is that "they have no  
> UNIX/linux support for the moment, sorry for the inconvenient".

I've also contacted Asus. 
The answer I got today is... bizzare:


> Dear Friend :
> Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.
> My name is ########  and I would be assisting you today 
> 
> Sir, What's the motherboard do you have ? A8V deluxe ? K8V deluxe ? or
> K8V ? do you have use other motherboard bios (eg , k8v deluxe) to
> update A8V deluxe . Thanks a lot for your information . by the way ,
> you don't use other motherboard bios to update this motherboard . Or
> it will kill your bios chipset . 
> 
> And if your bios chipset is corrupt ,the main boot block of bios is
> damaged ,
> 
> so you can not re-flash it back because the system won't boot .
> 
> if you have a eeprom programmer you can use it to write bios chip
> back ;
> 
> If you have another ASUS board( same type and same PCB version) ,you
> can use "hot-swap" method to write bios back .
> 
> 
> if above 2 ways are all impossible ,you need contact your mother board
> dealer to send this faulty board to! repaired . 
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards ! 

Crazy.

The problem is: Their bios breaks the nvidia drivers. And these guy
tells me something about broken eeproms and flashing the wrong bios.

Rated zero.


Bye,
Ratti
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