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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. I smell a lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    in HP's future.

  2. Re:Mini PCI was never intended for end users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sorry, you're mistaken. Your first quote from the Intel Developer site refers to PCI Express Card, which is the PCI Express version of PCMCIA (found on Intel 915GM chipset based laptops). It does NOT refer to MiniPCI, which is what current laptops use for expansion - basically, just a smaller form-factor PCI32b/33MHz slot.