Your surge protector:
Your surge protector plug:
Another reason US plugs are shit
Add in a cat with the zoomies rushing by that outlet every 15 seconds.
And a toddler chasing the cat…
You do not sound like I do, obviously.
Even worse is updating the idrac/perc firmware in a server several hours away, knowing that you’ll get yelled at and have your whole day ruined if it goes badly. If it goes perfectly, nobody will know. Seems like no upside and unbounded downside…
I just updated my BIOS on a 6yo motherboard because I upgraded the processor. Went up about 15 updates that had to be done one by one and took all day. I only broke it once because there are no guides or manuals on how to setup the USB drive from one version update to another. Had to figure out how to load a recovery image from another guide for another MB that they did create a guide for. Darn you Gygabyte for your poor documentation.
As much as it doesn’t stop me using their products, Gigabyte documentation is truly horrendous - I got a motherboard that wasn’t working and had to email the manufacturer asking what the beep code meant. Turned out it needed a firmware update to support the CPU which they were very helpful in sorting out, but I really feel like beep codes should be listed in the manual.
Years ago I bricked a MB while updating the bios so yes it scares me.
I’ve never had a failed bios flash.
but i still sit in pants shitting terror every time i have to do one. it doesnt help that power isnt the most stable thing where i live.
this is why I love msi motherboards, they have a little separate microcontroller that can flash the bios from a USB drive in an emergency
Pretty sure that’s most am5 boards. It’s required by AMD to certify it or something IIRC
The standard should be an A/B partition system, lile a lot of phones do. Flash B while booted to A, or Flash A when booted to B. If a flash fails, you can still boot the previous firmware.
Put your hands down, I know about security. The point is after the flash is successfully booted on the new firmware, it can be copied to the other partition to eliminate a regressive boot to old firmware.
For a while Gigabyte boards used this as a selling feature and I thought it was genius! Never had to use it, thankfully, but it brought some piece of mind.
Suprised to see noone even mention CoreBoot :(
I’ve got plans to install Libreboot on a server motherboard I have. On that one, the BIOS chip is actually socketed, so I can get an upgraded chip with 16MiB instead of 2MiB, use an external device like a Raspberry Pi flash Libreboot on it, and then install it on the board.
No worries about bricking the board unless I break the socket or something, LOL!
Jeez, I just successfully flashed my BIOS for the first time and this meme/ thread has me feeling like I just jumped over a chasm filled with venomous snakes
I was trying to put a new SSD in my laptop recently, but it didn’t recognize it. So I figured it needed a firmware update. I figured I could do this in BIOS, but nope! The updater was in .exe format.
Fortunately, I had an old Windows 8 install disc laying around. I had to install Windows 8 for all of 30 minutes to update my BIOS so it would take my new SSD. And it still didn’t work! Well at least the BIOS is as up to date as it can be.
Don’t put dogs in dogs they don’t bark well my teacher said. Well, my teacher is dead, but I still don’t understand a damn thing that deep swamp swimming bish thought was kosher up outside the motor pit, least when there no gators in tradenum. Post doc do hit like a frolic, you know, y’know?
Carbon monoxide poisoning has claimed another victim from the sounds of it
I do not have turkey for you for I am as we all walked back in and other or what, regardless whether you weather the storm of your heart.
