From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 5 14:49:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91E016A401 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from JimiT@mail.cox.smu.edu) Received: from amex.cox.smu.edu (amex.cox.smu.edu [129.119.81.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C98743D48 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:49:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from JimiT@mail.cox.smu.edu) Received: from exch4.cox.smu.edu ([129.119.81.19]) by amex.cox.smu.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k35EkWnm021416 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:46:32 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:49:30 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic Thread-Index: AcZYwCS8w4ON7dl6Qqe5f44nWgCrGA== From: "Thompson, Jimi" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:49:35 -0000 I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me the BIOS update that I need to fix the system. =20 =20 I thought I post here, even though it's a bit off topic to see if any of you have encountered anything similar and to see what you've done to resolve the issue. =20 The system in question is loaded with FreeBSD. =20 =20 TIA, =20 Jimi Thompson, CISSP