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Coot Click To Undress Premium join:2001-02-10 Not Here clubs:	Re: Is this motherboard phoning home ?? Well, yes, it is dirty, sneaky and underhanded, I guess you have to know to install the drivers manually rather than accept the defaults. -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen
	permalink · 2001-05-12 13:08:03 ·

Ray
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Re: Is this motherboard phoning home ??

I have a Soyo motherboard that did this. I didn't install Windows Scripting Host when installing Win98 and the first time I started my newly built computer, the damn thing crashed because this PhoenixNet thing ASSUMED that WSH was installed! It took me like two hours to figure out what was wrong & remove PhoenixNet. Talk about a bad out-of-box experience! I was so P.O.'d! How dare this piece of hardware interfere with my OS installation (and interfere so poorly)!

I wrote a nasty e-mail to Soyo and got a nice reply from a rep saying that they weren't happy about it either (I wasn't the first to complain) but since they depend on companies like Award, they couldn't do anything of an immediate nature other than forward complaints & apply gentle pressure. I made it clear that I would avoid anything marked "PhoenixNet Enabled" in the future. The Soyo rep was a real nice guy & was very prompt and helpful.

Correction: I changed the brand name of the mobo - I disremembered it wrong the first time.

[text was edited by author 2001-05-14 18:59:28]

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