Greetings, I have a fairly old motherboard, foxconn g31 mxp series from 2010 and it's running on intel pentium dual core. Couple days ago I was curious about running openbsd on this pc, since I have been running Linux on it since 2021 or even before that, never had any major issues. The main reason was learning PF(packet filter) from scratch. So, after successful instalation, everything turned out to be fine. I was able to run firefox, chromium and was able to watch videos even at 720p 60fps which was amazing and the cpu temperature rose to 53 degrees at max and ram usage was around 1.5 GB too. I was extremely surprised and satisfied on how good OpenBSD ran on this pc.
Now only today, I had a mediatek wifi card laying around and ran fw_update and it fetched something like "intel-drm" drivers and mtw and downloaded them on home directory. So, since they were .tgz files, I just ran "gzip -d intel-drm.tgz" and then tar -xf "intel-drm.tar" as root and the entire system froze for about 10 seconds, and then reboot on it's own and then it just won't boot at all. Everything powers up, the fan spins, and everything, but there's no power to keyboard and mouse and the display also doesn't show anything at all. It also doesn't powerdown too. All the fans just keep spinning. And I guess something made change to the motherboard? But how though, I didn't even execute anything, I just untar the "intel-drm.tar" file. I have so many memories on this device. Would be a shame if it went down like this. I've never had any issue like this before. I even unplugged everything and put them back in, and still it's not POSTing . It's also very interesting, just the moment I was extremely surprised by how efficient openbsd was, a firmware update just causes my pc to die it's actually funny.
