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The Mother of all BIOS Guides

Posted by Hemos on from the eking-out-every-percent dept.

Joey Braff writes "Many of you have probably heard of the famous BOG - BIOS Optimization Guide. For those who have not, make sure you take a look at this mega-guide with more than 300 BIOS settings and they just added 10 more! If you doubt its authenticity, note that its author is a doctor and the guide is also available as a book."

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  1. Re:try putting up articles on time by CUclimber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This reeks of self-promotion here. Since when does Slashdot try to pass advertisements off as stories?

  2. Nice last line by raoul666 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you doubt its authenticity, note that its author is a doctor and the guide is also available as a book."

    Because anything written in a book by a doctor must be true...right?

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  3. "... note that its author is a doctor ..." by Kymermosst · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah sure, because here at the university, I've never met someone with a Ph.D who was pretty much a complete dumbass in many respects.

    I've seen the kind of people who are issued doctorates, so the fact that the author is a doctor doesn't really lend to its credibility.

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    1. Re:"... note that its author is a doctor ..." by Kymermosst · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I have performed tech support for math/computer science professors with doctoral degrees. I actually got the infamous "my machine won't turn on" issue that is resolved by plugging it in. Ph.D.'s don't necessarily reflect intelligence or for another matter, credibility.

      As my algorithms teacher routinely quoted Dijkstra: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

      I firmly believe that some CIS professors have never actually written a real program for a real compiler running on a real computer.

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    2. Re:"... note that its author is a doctor ..." by Scarblac · · Score: 2, Insightful

      One of the professors at my CS study taught theoretical computer science; he was a pretty brilliant mathematician. At some point he started following the basic Pascal course that the first year students did though, since he thought that perhaps he should be able to program.

      And I totally agree with Dijkstra. People who criticize CS for not teaching them how to program in a professional environment are confused.

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  4. Bah by weatherguy48 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I couldn't read it with all of the sponsored links. Seriously, that's distracting.

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  5. Re:try putting up articles on time by woolio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has been happening ever since I first started reading Slasdot 2-3 years ago...

    I believe the editors let an inflammatory article "slip" by one or twice a week go increase ad revenue:

    This "article" went up on SUNDAY night... Which means most ./'ers will be spending their WORKday tomorrow (and the rest of the week) posting rebuttals, reading others rants, etc... Since this is a fairly specialized topic (BIOS config), unless the editors allow the summary to be inflammatory, most people won't bother to click the "Read More..." link...

    This will probably be one of those articles that hits +500 messages real quick... Each message means multiple pages were loaded (login/preview, compose message, post response)... and thats only for those who bother to comment! Many many people will read the comments just to see what other are saying (since they will see so many were posted).

    I think it is just a quick way for CowboyNeal to get some extra $$$ real quick. They [the editors] could at least be honest about it....

  6. BIOS on-line help sucks! by amirl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a great guide but it led me to think, why, over all the years, the help in the BIOS itself lack all this information.
    I know about the memory problem in the BIOS itself but how much memory is needed for a normal help?

    The BIOS still looks like an engineer page rather than a setup page for a normal user.

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  7. Doctor..?! by Chicane-UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    note that its author is a doctor

    lol.. so is my girlfriend but whilst she might know lots about her chosen field, I don't think she knows an awful lot about the ins and outs of RAM timings and AGP apertures ;)

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  8. Re: Education usually pays off... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I too found the original posters argument from authority slightly silly. It only makes sense if said doctor is an authority in the field of BIOS research. However, being issued a doctorate usually means three things

    1) generally bright
    2) specifically good at whatever the theses was about
    3) hard working

    Given time and interest, I'm confident a large proportion of them would figure out BIOSs or whatever. I think your criticism of them as a group is unfounded. They don't claim to know everything, that's your claim on their behalf.