MAC address issue...old, but have question

I missed all the news about bios 2.5 but anyway did it screw up the MAC address? I flashed it but it never let me into windows saying I didn't have an acpi compliant bios.
I see some things about it messing up the MAC...
If the mac address isn't all zeros is it ok? Or did the bios just change it altogether to a diiferent value?
Sorry for late post about it...I missed it when bios 2.5 out to do my comp being down at the time.

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Originally posted by J*A*G
It looks odd it is like a bunch of 8080808080....maybe I better try the fix.
Uh-yup. You got a busted MAC address. Off to the catacombs with ya! At least the search function runs good now.
Jef

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MAC address issue----Spearman

Saw your comments on this in the post about the 1.9 bios for neo2platty ....
I can confirm that My MAC address issue was caused by the bios that you sited in your comments....all F's were written to My nvidia lan too...
only solution from what I have read is too rma it...'bummer'
just thought You would like to know.... Your not alone

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