BikNorton wrote:
No-one called you a fraud. People called what you did fraud. Which it gives of the impression of being. And like quoting an ASUS manual, asking what "the Anal gang" would've said if a stock BIOS file had bricked it isn't relevant.
Dunno about anyone else, but I (presuming I'm in the Anal gang) would've said it was a bag of shit and you'd be totally entitled to a replacement.
Incidentally, once you're in Windows, the BIOS is pretty much unused. It should be perfectly "safe" to flash from Windows, if it's designed properly. I've never had a problem doing so, motherboard BIOS or even weird stuff like DVD firmware. Equally as risky whichever you go about it really, if it's not truly failsafe (eg mains goes off mid-write). Obviously, DFI haven't done enough failsafe testing.
Being accused of comitting fraud/being called a fraud are the same thing. They both imply that I knowingly killed that motherboard (on purpose if you will) and then sent it back for my own gains.
I don't agree with you on the flashing from windows thing, nothing is really safe in windows.. Mind you, flashing bios has always been a dodgy business since the dawn of flashing your bios. I did absolutely everything I could to make sure it worked. Including running the bios through three checksum checks and they all came back OK. The file I ended up with was the same filesize as before and all of the internal headers/info and layout/s were identical. I used AWD bios tool to inject the logo and it displayed the logo perfectly. As I said before, had DFI not been so frivelous about doing it (by pointing people to google) then I would not have done it. I mean tbh? I could not have done it because nowhere else on the internet could I find any other info about DFI and changing a logo.
So at the end of the day the bios I used could well be perfectly fine and it could have just been a bad flash. That cannot be proven by anyone really. Well, unless you wanted to read off the bios I put onto the board (assuming it's complete as it was when I flashed it to the board) and read it and found out the exact reason why it caused the machine to fail post.
None of the manus really do enough testing. They get handed the technology (north and southbridge) from other larger companies like Nvidia and AMD and build boards. I asked on DFI's forum if the board I had supported the Opteron AM2 (as I couldn't find the info anywhere) and I got no answer. Now you would think that they would like, buy an Opteron and stick it in the board? nope, obviously can't be assed. Same way they can't be assed to write a bios logo app and so on. Poor, especially considering the full price for the board I had was £190 (I got mine on clearance) and you can get a brand new foxconn board for £26 that comes with a bios logo app