On 9 May 2019 at 10:45, Richard Scobie wrote:
> Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
>
> > OTOH, I don't like Asrock for two reasons:
> > 1) they tend to support UEFI booting only, no legacy BIOS boot
> > 2) they don't seem to have BIOS images publically available on the
> > downloads site...
>
> I've not had a problem finding BIOS updates - here's the page for the
> board I mentioned:
>
> https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J4105M/index.asp#BIOS
>
:-) Thanks for proving me wrong, and I apologize for spreading FUD
about Asrock...
That said, I've just tried to arrive at that URL by starting from
www.asrock.com
and I'm still kind of lost.
If I go via Support -> Latest BIOS update, or "BIOS version finding"
I end up somewhere here:
https://www.asrock.com/support/index.asp?cat=BIOS
No way to search for 4105, and that motherboard model is not listed
in the table of "latest BIOS updates".
If I go via Products -> Motherboards, ... okay it loads kind of
sluggish, and only works for me in Pale Moon, not in the fresh
Firefox, but yes ultimately I have finally found the product and the
grey menu bar with "support" on it, then a BIOS button, and yes it's
pointing to the page you have provided.
=> it was a PEBKAC on my part after all, and the whole debate is
about webmastering, rather than PC hardware.
Just out of curiosity I've compared to Gigabyte and ASUS...
The Gigabyte website has noticeably fewer "frills", and finding the
BIOS via "Support" rather than "Products" is also straightforward.
With ASUS, the number of sluggish supersize graphical posters is more
significant, and the number of clicks required to get a BIOS is also
non-trivial, but ultimately you can still get a BIOS by going via
"support" and entering a particular substring of the board name.
(I probably should not mention Advantech here ;-) - the best way is
via Google search, or you need to know/derive the URL to their
support website and search by product name from there.
Their product listing is not a good start. And they don't have
a BIOS for every product in their public downloads.
As a halfway insider, I know who to ask and we hardly ever
need to update the BIOS these days, but I'm applying a double
standard here.)
I'm probably just biased after all.
I've grown up in an age when websites tended to be intuitive to
navigate, and straight to the point. Or maybe that's just the way my
merciful memories of my youth would have it. This is not about
motherboards. I'm getting old.
Frank
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