On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Peter Gueckel <pguec...@gmail.com> wrote: > One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to keep in mind > when > buying a motherboard is the quality of the BIOS program. > > With the ASUS and ASRock motherboards I have had, I noticed that the BIOS > setup > program was very difficult and ambiguous to understand. I got the impression > that > the settings were all poor translations and often left me puzzled. > > With the Intel motherboard, I was greeted by a menu composed of very > professional > and well-written settings and explanations. I find good and unambiguous use of > English in the manuals and setup to be a factor worth considering. >
As much as I hate my latest ASUS board, due to the lack of LAN drivers in Linux and the lack of a PCI slot on the board, I must say that the BIOS is terrific. When first opens it give one an idiot-designed "simple BIOS" or whatnot, but once entered into the Advanced mode it is terrific. I even updated the BIOS from within BIOS as it can read USB sticks and upload the new firmware from there. So no DOS needed for a BIOS update. That said, I have another complaint about the latest ASUS boards: no boot from USB! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
