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Originally Posted by Praetor
Often Compaqs and HPs and such use ASUS or MSI boards however they are heavily modified (read: crippled) from the original design and the BIOS is rewritten to tailor to that board ... it seems Compaq/HP use MSI boards and Dells often use ASUS ones.
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One of the systems I have at home is a Compaq and it uses a 'designed by compaq engineers in texas' stamp on it right beside the north bridge, I was sure most oems needed to design their own boards because of the screwy cases they are so fond of using