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[Vidyut Luther]

thats what I do. I've seen a lot of bugfixes the A31P bios, but none 
affect me, I don't use power mgmnt, i don't use the monitor outputs etc, 
the fixes wouldn't affect me.

But for something like a "will fix your computer from crashing".. and you 
are experiencing the crash when you do try to install.. then go ahead and 
apply the patch. 

I'm sure IBM does regression testing on their patches like every good 
programmer is supposed to comment his code :). Unless it's absolutely 
necessary, i stay away from unnecessary uprades to things like the bios. 


 On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Steven Crane wrote:

> ...As for things like the BIOS, my philosophy is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If things are 
> running fine for you, then you're probably fine...
> 
> One of the fixes listed for v36 is to prevent some form of crash "when installing 
> operating system from CD", pretty much exactly what I'm going to be doing... and the 
> only reason that I gave the BIOS update option a second glance.
> 
> I'll do some more checking as to the exact nature of this particular fix, but basically 
> only worry about this sort of thing if it happens?
> 
> ---Steven
> 
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