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Do all Clevo/Sager bioses suck like the 3880?

post #1 of 5
1/8/07 at 2:25pm
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Seems on the Dell's you can set all sorts of properties, similar to desktops. Such as, wake on keyboard, wake on lan, wake on timer etc..

On my desktop you can overclock by adjusting front side bus, voltages, memory timings, memory voltages etc.

On my 3880 you have virtually no control over anything. You can boot over lan, change boot sequence and a hand full of other small settings.

I'm curious if all the Celvo/Sager 's are like this?
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post #2 of 5
1/8/07 at 8:24pm
AFAIK, they all use the Phoenix bios, and yeah, the control selection kind of sucks.
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post #3 of 5
1/9/07 at 5:00am
Well as far as I know only the Sager 5720 had Bios overclock options. And I dont mean in the Sager line, I mean of ALL laptops, the 5720 is the only one to have that option.

But for the other options, most of the other Sagers have the same Bios as the 3880. There isnt really much in the bios of most laptops.
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post #4 of 5
1/9/07 at 10:41pm
Not all laptops are as bad as Sager when it come to BIOS programming. My mom's HP laptop can even boot via LAN. There really shouldn't be any reason why my 9860 (which uses a desktop chipset and processor) shouldn't offer similar BIOS options to desktop computers. Sager uses in-house tools that allow them to modify all kinds of parameters that could be made available in BIOS if they chose to do so. They don't. My guess is that they intentionally cripple their BIOS's in order to minimize cost and support issues.

Not only is the BIOS crippled, but some of the functionality that's supposed to be available doesn't completely work. For example, booting from an external HD (an option in the BIOS) doesn't work. In fact, the only external device it seems I am now able to boot from is an external FDD. The card reader is supposed to work with memory stick pro devices... it doesn't. There are probably other things that don't work as well that I simply haven't tried...
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post #5 of 5
1/10/07 at 4:27am
are you able to modify the bios of the sager 3880 and allow more functionality? I would love to be able to control the fan speed of the 3880.
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