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[mikeyakame]

I would add to your letter to fix the backlight issue of LCD Poster.
If I set from BIOS the backlight OFF, it stays OFF untill S3 resume. From that point it is always ON.

Example:

- backlight in BIOS is OFF
- starting a cold boot
- the light is ON until the last POST step
- as soon the LCD Poster is displaying time, the light goes OFF (as programmed in BIOS).
- I order Vista to put PC in S3 mode (S3 is forced in BIOS)
- the PC goes OFF except the power on led that is blinking
- I wake up the PC touching a keyboard key
- after some seconds I have my PC completely on and functional
- the light of LCD poster is ON (not correct).

I can duplicate in my system this bug 100% of times.

Heh thats part of the S3 corruption "bug"

Backlight staying on means the skewing is completely fubared to the point something going to be corrupted soon! Thats the only time I've ever had it not work properly. I wish this "backlit bug" was a real indicator of errors but it's not it just so happens that one of the critical segments (maybe POST_SEG) that handles it ends up with invalid data and result is light doesn't go off. It's bad news no matter how u look at it or why.

My rule is if it ever stays on after INIT ROM or anytime during Windows, either if outside OS I will immediately power it off or within OS shutdown and if that fails power off. Rather lose data than corrupt it. The former is easier to fix.

I speak from corrupting OS/wiping out half my registry experience here ;D I've done it more times than i'd like to ever admit! I've actually done it so many times that I've realized OS partition backups are much easier than full reinstalls I don't mind it when it's all fault of my own it just sucks when it isn't!

I learnt about the dangers of Performance Level phase pull-ins that way! I think the worst one was when I've corrupted the boot manager for Windows! THat was pretty bad!