On 10/24/18 10:55 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:49:39 +0000 > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> The nastiest issues on any mobo still tend to be video- or wireless- >> related. Sometimes ACPI is a problem as well. > > My nastiest issue is always BIOS update. I'll follow the > instructions to the letter and wind up with a bricked board > and have to mail order a new BIOS chip to get it working > again. That's why I never update the BIOS unless absolutely > forced to :-). I've only had one bricked mobo due to a BIOS update. In that case, it's a good idea to get one of the mobos that supports a backup BIOS. Remember the good old days, when you could pop out your UVEPROMs and replace them with new ones? Once you were certain it worked OK, you stuck the old chips under a UV light to erase them so you could reuse them? Ah, the S-100 bus! Altair! IMSAI! Poly-88s! Vector Graphics! TDL! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Blessed be the peacekeepers, for they shall be shot at from - - both sides. - - -- A.M. Greeley - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
