[plug] Windows Briefing

[Garth Atkinson]

Bradley Browne wrote:
> 
> 
> I would just love to know *how* it happened.
> I can accept the possibility that it would wreck my system but I have
> never known an OS to directly alter the bios, which I assume it has
> done, and without even actually progressing to actually install the OS.
> 
> I am going to try and do something drastic to the bios and then we'll
> see.  I think I will give another install a very wide berth though, like
> I need to convince myself of that eh ?
> 
> Thanks for brightening up my day,
> 
> Brad
Windows NT 4,95 and 98 all directly modified the ICU (?) (Plug and play
configuration) data. With the beta versions of NT 4.0 it used to
sometimes corrupt this data and the only fix was to reset the data via a
jumper on the motherboard. Maybe that is what Windows 98 has done...

Garth