On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:47, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com 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 never had a BIOS update fail. For years my home computer was a Victor 9000 (Chuck Peddie design) that loaded the BIOS from disk at boot time, so I haven't done as many BIOS updates on 8088/8086 hardware as most PC enthusiasts.