PAYING FOR UPDATES!!!

[crazyadi]

Thought while i was pissing about with my computer i may as well have a see if there is a bios update available for it...
off i toddle to the phoenix technologies website, and find and click on the bios updates thingy..
after pissing about downloading a scanner or whatever shit i was meant to it tells me there is indeed an update..yayyyyyyy now maybe my laptop wont come back on all by itself after i shut it down... ill never know!!!

£22 fucking quid to download the bios, are they taking the bleeding piss!! not frigging impressed. and y the fuck are phoenix linking to these twats in their support frigging pages!!!!!!!

[rIKmAN]

Never heard of that before mate, that is shocking!

[Tim.Lad]

that's a new one to me 20 year in the business never heard of paying for a bios

[Tim.Lad]

just looked into this you probably ended up at http://biosagentplus.com it is linked from the phoenix support page this is a separate commercial company that make money scanning you computer and offering links to updated software and bioses..

My advice you go to the laptop manufacturers web site for your bios

[maltloaf]

yea definitely go to the laptop manufacturers site.

[Possy_99]

phoenix may not be deliberately linking to the company, it was probably just adverts.. and since you were looking for bios it displayed bios related adverts.

take it as blessing in disguise.. you were successfully lead astray but your not being bombarded with rogue antivirus (which is usually the case in this situation I'd say) or haven't downloaded a fake/incompatible bios

[crazyadi]

no phoenix do deliberately lead you to the website possy, the link for the bios is on a drop down on their support page! :-/ and yes tim your right thats exactly where i ended up, have had a look on the mfr website but cant see a bios update so now im is there one or isnt there one!! :-/

[Possy_99]

the dropdown for partners.. in otherwords.. not phoenix themselves.

..just thought anyways.. shouldn't you be going to mainboard manufacturer site for updates?



[edit]
just found this site.. 3rd google result (not including sponsored links of course) on my search (biosagentplus)

http://forum.worldstart.com/showthread.php?t=131437

..doesn't look good..


[edit2]
..a trusted source (in this case the mainboard manufacturer) says there isn't one and a suspicious program says there is but wants some sort of payment..

..alarm bells are ringing..

[Mickey]

I always say. "If it isn`t broken, then dont fix it". I was going to flash my dell lappy, but i think if i did it`ll prob not pass the slic for windows 7. so i am not going to bother

[Possy_99]

wow, CNET are taking a hammering on their 4* review.. look at the comments..


download.cnet.com/BIOSAgentPlus/3000-2098_4-10175528.html

..tried putting in clickable link but I didn't like the way the forum previewed it or whatever the hack is, (was loading two windows) on a side note this is note this is not the first time that hack has had a negative effect on links I've tried to post. (megaupload links being the last time) ..what if the destination site is unavailable.. wouldn't that slow the loading of our posts? ..mobile web viewers browsing fully rendered pages will take longer etc etc.. keep it simple man..

[crazyadi]

thats the problem it is broken Mickey kind of, was hoping a bios update might fix it...