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BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops

Posted by timothy on from the to-benefit-the-consumer dept.

derek_farn writes "First there were printers that would would only work with vendor annointed ink cartridges; now we have laptops that will only boot with vendor annointed PCI cards. Keeping a list of approved PCI cards in the bios is one way of ensuring that customers renew their maintenance contracts. How else are they going to be able to plug in a PCI card released after the last BIOS update?" My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

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  1. Obligatory by mestreBimba · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In A.D. 2005
    War was beginning.
    Captain: What happen ?
    Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Operator: We get signal.
    Captain: What !
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Captain: It's you !!
    Compaq: How are you gentlemen !!
    Compaq: All your PCI DEVICES are belong to us.
    Compaq: You are on the way to destruction.
    Captain: What you say !!
    Compaq: You have no chance to survive make your time.
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  2. Re:Confirm? by tyraen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Besides the fact that you didn't understand what he was asking...the end. He meant, his was older than the new ones that now have it. At least, that's all I got out of it. ;D

  3. Re:The correct answer is.... by rainman_bc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd just like to point out that adding elipses doesn't somehow make a phrase become as sentence either. ;)

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  4. Re:Funny. by SaDan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The new Duramax diesel engine was a joint venture between Isuzu and GM. I forget where they are produced.