Semi-revisit of DP55WB Network Issues

I had spoken to a friend of mine about BIOS flashing at one point and he was very experienced at that.  Some time back, I had an article over the issues my DP55WB motherboard had and showed him the downloads.  He was kind enough to clear things up with me over what the downloads were.

The WB0336P.BIO file is used to restore in case the flashing goes wrong.  The WBIBX10J.86A.0336.BI.ZIP is a zip file that contains the flashing tool for DOS.  You would have to use something like unetbootin to build a FreeDOS boot disk.  Then, run the executable to flash the BIOS.  The last one WBIBX10J.86A.0336.EB.EXE is a Windows executable to update the BIOS directly.

As usual, it's important to get the motherboard right and make sure the power doesn't go out during flashing.  I'm not going to update my BIOS but this is good information to post here in the mean time.

Origin on Wine and the Preparing Download

Well, I've gotten stuck on Wine and Origin's Preparing Download and had forgotten to patch Qt5Network.dll that had been overwritten by several Origin updates.  I'm fortunate that the patch is still in my Origin install folder so I backed up the new dll and re-ran the patch to fix it.  Details on this issue are on this Wine Bug thread.

Mass Effect 1 was pretty good and I finished it entirely in Wine/Linux.  Awesome!

GOG Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templars Director's Cut Promo

If you haven't checked it out and play a ton of point and click adventure games, this is your chance to check out this cool promo courtesy of GOG. The site is celebrating 6 million unique game downloads as a special milestone. The prize, as you may have guessed it, is that you'll be able to get Broken Swmrd: Shadows of the Templar Director's Cut for free. The special offer is valid until October 1, 2011 (11:59 am GMT), so head over and grab it now!

Milestone achieved! Free Broken Sword for everyone!

Now is an interesting time to compare Broken Sword: Director's Cut on the PC, Wii and the DS. The Wii and the DS versions I finished some time back!