IRQ Conflicts Live

[vakkotaur]

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Gigabyte Blew It

About three years ago my aging & rather ancient computer well and truly died. I shopped around some and settled on a few things. One was a Gigabyte motherboard, the GA-890XA-UD3 which I am using right now as I type. It has worked just fine for these last three years with no special setup beyond updating the BIOS (for which

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[yakko]

I recall when I was using my MSI mainboard and needed to update the BIOS so it would support EFI. I forget exactly how it went, but the summary was that I would have had to install Windows just to update the BIOS.

So I got an Asrock Z77 mainboard. BIOS updates aren't an issue anymore. I can flash a new BIOS right from the existing BIOS, without an OS (using Internet Flash). That the mainboard Just Worked with all my other hardware was a very good thing, too. I was pleased enough with this mainboard that I bought an Asrock to build an AMD machine (with an FX-6100 on it) after an ASUS mainboard just quit working and claimed the CPU was faulty. After using a proper power supply, the "faulty" CPU works on the Asrock.

I've had some hit-and-miss issues with USB 3.0, but that's not due to hardware. It's something that Ubuntu have broken in some kernel updates. (It worked for rev 54, gave "no room on EP ring" errors for 55, and fixed for 56.) Next LTS is in April, and I'm most likely going to use Mint when the upgrade comes along.