SOFY? WTF is SOFY?

[abhong]

sorry about the title...

got a bit frustrated last night...
built a PC together yesterday on the following parts

ASUS A8N-32 SLI
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800
2GB PC3200 RAM
SONY DVD Burner

and all went fine, used a crappy old case i have lying around...

but then when i start and go into bios, i get SOFY as a DVD drive...

what the heck is this SOFY coming from? is this a bootleg drive?

what i dont get is i swapped with another SONY...

now i have 2 SOFY... WTF is SOFY?

LOL, too late to think straight so i shut it down and went to sleep...

anyone?

any thoughts?

thanks!

 

[Roguestar]

hahahahahahaha
Either a typo somewhere in the firmware or your drive "fell off the back of a truck" .

 

[abhong]

... with my luck, if i try LiteOn, i will get a "five finger discounted" version and it will read as "Lilo"

so firmware eh?

 

[Roguestar]

LIGHT-ON
SANY
NECK
TUSHIBA
PANOSONIC
SAMSONG
PHILLIPPS
EL-G

All good quality brands!

Edit: I'd say check all the serial numbers and barcodes and stuff and if it looks legit then odds are it's just a strange error somewhere.

 

[abhong]

ROFLMAO!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Sofy is the result of firmware being developed outside of primarily English speaking nations.

 

[Roguestar]

Maybe it's the girl who programmed it .

 

[trOver]

hahahahhahaa

 

[Chaotic42]

Looks like SomeOne F--ked You on a new drive...

 

[Newfie]

haha Sofy, bloody brilliant

 

[Jaanpunjab]

That's my sister you a-hole!

 

[abhong]

That's my sister you a-hole!

um... you got twins? cus i got 2 SOFYs now...

 

[Ruptga]

:laugh:

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
Maybe it's the girl who programmed it .

hehehehehe!

 

[djnsmith7]

I wanna see a screenshot...of...Sofy-ia...lol

 

[RESmonkey]

Did anyone think of SOFY standing for something like Sony F* Y*? (Not the swearing case!!!!)--> something like Sony Firmware Yellowstone?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've had every-other letter in a drive's ID string show up strangely before. Usually due to cabling problems or a busted IDE controller, or perhaps a bent pin somewhere.

 

[n7]

That's awesome.

I had some weird issue w/ one of my Maxtors showing up as Grizzly something in the bios

I forget how i fixed it, but i wish i would taken pics...was weird as hell.

Edit: weird, just googled it, & it turns out Grizzly is part of the name i guess?!
/dunno, but it's now showing normally.

 

[manimal]

try updating your bios. Maby the engineer had a lisp when he said sony, hence sofy

 

[Roguestar]

Check the drive; is there a secret message CD already in it?

On a somewhat related note: a friend of mine bought a laptop off eBay and when he turned it on there was a DVD called "Horny Perfect 10s" in the drive.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: abhong

That's my sister you a-hole!

um... you got twins? cus i got 2 SOFYs now...

why don't you insert your disk in there and play it

:lips: