Question on Powerstrip and bios corruption

[Tony Mongkolsmai]

Was there a problem with using powerstrip that led to bios corruption in the G400. I thought I read about that, but wanted to know what the problems were exactly. Thanks guys.

[Kruzin]

Yes. There is a definate problem, that has been reproduced by Matrox tech support. If you use Powerstrip or Perf Tuner, make sure to make a BIOS crash disk first. Some people (Ant) have gotten away with using it with no probs, while many others (myself included) have had our bios corrupted by using Powerstrip. A bios recovery is the only way to fix it.

The author of PS joined in one of the threads about this, and told us G400 support would be removed from the next version of PS, until this problem could be resolved...

So, it's a crap shoot. Personally, I'd stay away from Powerstrip for the time being...



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[Tony Mongkolsmai]

Great that's what I thought Thanks Kruzin