novice, I haven't bothered to figure out the problem with hard, hardware code and micro code, or "firmware", as you called it, yet. My brain is stuffed with enough, and if I get smart, it won't help me much being ahead of the curve too much, other than behaving like a survivalist. -g-
Software is one issue; as you noted the buggers are the embedded stuff. That is the real problem the general monkeyboy doesn't understand. PC's manufactured 5 years ago are going to fail, I have one, let's guess what else might happen to a weak link robot on the XYZABC line? This is what makes me very nervous about predicting PC sales.
Can I get a new BIOS and OS which will fix the problem for my home machine, or will it be easier to just throw away the box and buy a 500 buck replacement that will serve the purposes? And I have a P-133. There are many that are still hanging on to older machines, usually word processors.
Regards, Ice |
