Awesome feature on new MSI boards

[dpodblood]

I was just looking at new P67 boards, and noticed that MSI has a pretty awesome feature: a full Linux OS build right into the board!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1hXcZssaY

It has the open office suite, IM client, skype, and a backup app. All of the basics you would need in the case that your main OS dies. Plus it also has the ability to backup your BIOS to a USB key in case anything goes wrong during the flashing process. Pretty big selling points IMO.

 

[Dahak]

Not entirely new, Asus boards had something similar called Express Gate. Mind I dont recall if it had all the options that this does seem to have

 

[mosco]

This is one of those features that is kind of neat, but never gets used. I have never used it on my asus motherboard.

 

[brandonb]

Hmm. I wonder how one goes about checking it out?

 

[dpodblood]

This is one of those features that is kind of neat, but never gets used. I have never used it on my asus motherboard.

In the past when Windows has been corrupted, I've needed to use an XP live CD (think it's called BartPE) in order to retrieve files from the OS drive. Seems like this would be a much more convenient way to go about it.

 

[paperwastage]

right now I have a bunch of SD(HC) cards unused, and a USB->SDHC device

a 1GB card with Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Live/Install
a 4GB card with W7 Pro x64 (install only)
a 256MB card with gparted
a 1GB card with Clonezilla

so that would be useful, but not necessarily. I'm sure a lot of you have unless < 500MB SD cards... just get a $2 USB adapter

 

[gorcorps]

Interesting, I bought one of the new P67 MSI boards and didn't know of this. Doesn't seem heavily advertised and I didn't come across it in the good chunk of the manual I read. Might be useful during initial setup if you don't have another PC to use. If I couldn't get online in windows because of drivers and then couldn't find the driver disc then it might be useful to get online w/ linux (if possible).

 

[Lorne]

Wow, Modern day C= +4 in a PC bios.

 

[SunnyD]

I'm sorry, but I couldn't take any feature named "Winki" seriously.