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Ok, I am hoping Jason or someone with more tech skill than me can answer a question. My HP e9280t has been operating without a hitch for four days now...off and on, in and out of sleep, cold starts, all of the things that apparently triggered the serious flaws in the e91xx machines.
My model uses the same motherboard as the problem machines but with a new and updated BIOS. It certainly seems that the BIOS update has solved the problem. And that leads to my question.
An unhappy HP customer on their support board repeatedly has claimed he would not be satisfied with HP fixing his machine with the new BIOS because he claims this BIOS update "cripples" the computer, seriously impairing its performance. He essentially wants his computer with a new model of motherboard but the un-updated BIOS. I think HP owes him satisfaction, but he is asking for a model they don't make.
So what I want to know is: can a BIOS be changed so that it "cripples" a computer?
I know sort of what the BIOS does and I suppose it could somehow be written to not see all of my memory or turn off part of a processor. Diagnostic software I've run doesn't indicate anything like that is happening and I can tell you the combo of Win 7 and the Core i7 proc are noticeably faster than any PC I've ever owned.
I won't use the answer I get here to argue with this guy on the HP board. I don't do that kind of thing. I am just curious and this was the only place I could think of to ask a question and get an answer I'd trust. Thanks in advance.
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