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Re: Turning off the Log-in Password

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Turning off the Log-in Password
Date 2025-02-01 14:59 +0100
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On 2025-01-29 19:59, Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 1/29/2025 8:38 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-01-29 14:17, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>
>>>     So the standard is open, but most implementations are proprietary.
>>>
>>>> It's a doubt I had for decades :-)
>>>
>>>     Now you have the answer.
>>
>> Not really :-)
>>
>> I meant if you could have the same rom code byte by byte put in any motherboard and things would work.
>>
> 
> The BIOS is like a small file system.
> 
> This encourages some notion of modularity. For example,
> if I have two board variants, one has a SIL3112 chip with
> two SATA ports and the other does not, I can equip the
> BIOS on each board with the same SATA module (so the
> board can boot from it), and if a board does not have
> a SIL3112 chip on its surface, the SIL3112 module is
> not loaded when the BIOS POSTs.
> 
> It's possible to handle some variants, without making
> major changes to how things work.
> 
> But generally speaking, you as the customer cannot know
> whether there is some custom GPIO assignment on your board,
> which is different than other boards in the same product line.
> 
> With the poor expansion capabilities today on motherboards,
> you can have a microATX and a full ATX board which have
> identical schematics, and then your dream of a common BIOS
> could be met. But each BIOS file has a custom identifier,
> and a board1 BIOS will not flash into a board2 motherboard.
> They check for that at update time. You would have to use
> an EEPROM programmer, to bypass the check.

Understood. Thank you both :-)

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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      Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 14:54 +0000
        Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-01-26 17:55 +0100
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                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 23:04 +0100
                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-27 11:16 +0000
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                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-29 13:17 +0000
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                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-29 15:29 +0000
                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-29 13:59 -0500
                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-01 14:59 +0100
                Re: Turning off the Log-in Password Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-29 13:12 +0000
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