Alaric
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I'm just more familiar with Asus BIOS'. Sorry for confusing the issue. My Gigabyte board has an AMI (American Megatrends, Inc.) BIOS, too.
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I'm just more familiar with Asus BIOS'. Sorry for confusing the issue. My Gigabyte board has an AMI (American Megatrends, Inc.) BIOS, too.
Because there's too many different opinion about ASRock, some said they are poor quality boards and not reliable some said they are among one of the best lol.
I don't know anyone who even own one before so I wouldn't know. I'm still rocking on my ASUS which is my first build lol...
Then again as I mentioned, ASRock boards are surprisingly LOT cheaper than the rest and pack with amazing features. This is why I find it's hard to trust, let's face it we are in reality, we pay what we get for lol.
But then again ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI could be over charging us especially ASUS boards as I know I felt they are way overpriced.
In your opinion, would you pay EXTRA just to get the ON/OFF button on the board if you're going to use the board inside a case ??
Though recently I did ran into one issue, I thought my casing ON/OFF button died / faulty. So there was no way for me to start up my PC !
Or least to find out whether is my board or my casing button. But luckily it was just a loose connection, I only had to unplug the front panel ON/FF wire from the board and reconnect them and it's been working like a charm so far.
What if one day my casing's ON/OFF button really is busted and my board doesn't have an ON/OFF button, what do I do then ??
And the Debug code, what does it really do ??
I don't OC and such, do you think it's best that I least get a board with one ?
So far mine doesn't have one, I guess I'm able to live without one so far till now.
If the front panel speaker is hooked up on the motherboard it will also give you beep codes for trouble shooting hardware problems, all motherboards have this option.And the Debug code, what does it really do ??
I don't OC and such, do you think it's best that I least get a board with one ?
So far mine doesn't have one, I guess I'm able to live without one so far till now.
Back when ASRock first started they had some quality issues, but these days they're a top tier motherboard. All manufacturers are going to have equipment that fails at some point, it's part of having a computer.
They're definitely the best price for the features you get, of the top tier companies, no doubt there.
No, I don't care if there's an onboard power button if it's going into a case. You can always use a screwdriver across the two pins where your case power button hooks to if you need to troubleshoot, I've had to do that for motherboards without an onboard button when testing them on the bench.
The debug code tells you what is keeping the system from booting, when you have issues getting into the BIOS. It's something you can live without, but it's nice to have if a hardware problem arises.
If the front panel speaker is hooked up on the motherboard it will also give you beep codes for trouble shooting hardware problems, all motherboards have this option.
If the front panel speaker is hooked up on the motherboard it will also give you beep codes for trouble shooting hardware problems, all motherboards have this option.
Front panel of the motherboard. https://www.google.com/search?q=Fro...rd&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Ah those, normally those OEM / Pre Built PC have it lol, I didn't know it's a feature for all boards...if it's a self built one, how do I get this feature ? Will it work if I plug in headphones to my front panel jacks ? Though I have a dedicated soundcard for my front panel and rear.
About the Debug Code, how Specific can it actually be ?
Let's say hmm if possible my PCIE lane is giving problem preventing me from boot up, will I able to tell by the Debug Code ?
What if my GPU died or something. Or maybe my CPU as well ? Will it show up in the Debug Code ?
If it's rather specific like how car these days then it's super useful.
Because for cars, if one of your sensor ( almost any sensor in the engine, gearbox or whatever, ranging from from ABS, Air Bag even your Alarm System ) is faulty, if you hook up to a laptop ( OBD II reader ) it will show you EXACTLY what is faulty.
It's really super easy to diagnose a faulty component / sensor now in cars as long it's electronic component of course.
Front panel of the motherboard. https://www.google.com/search?q=Fro...rd&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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This is a bit dated, but still serves as a perfect example:
http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=16017
The motherboard manual will list all the codes (at least the important ones) if you have a Debug display onboard.
if you think the power button on the case is bad, just unplug the thing from the board and jump the two connecters with the tip of a screwdriver or butter knife.
the power section of the board is made up of the mosfets, chokes and things, normally next to the socket, next to the rear in/out panel.
yes, I have a list of features that I would like, it tends to limit me to the top of the line boards.
the issues with the bios are how they are arranged and what they call things.
I had an asrock board, when I was just learning this stuff that I had to get rid of because jumping back and forth between boards, I would get confused, now I could get along with it, I just wouldn't like it.
I use asrock boards, they have been wonderful and asrock has been good to me.
when intel released devils canyon, I preordered cpus and motherboards, when the kits arrived both boards had the same issue, asrock shipped me two the next day, no question, no credit card, nothing, just we'll ship them in the morning.
I have a number of asrock boards and have had no other real issues other than what I have caused my self.
my asus boards are great also.
the only issues I have had were the nics on the early release crosshair 5 formulas, those were replaced promptly and the 6 I have of those have been jewels.
my crosshair 5-f's and ch5-f-z boards have been pushed about as hard as a board has been pushed and have not failed yet.
I know of only two people here on this forum that have hammered them as hard or harder than these have been and those are johan45 and mandrake and that has been under extreme cooling.
Wao, that's a very long list, I've check some of the more new ones not much difference.
Seems like this is more specific for AMI BIOS boards and if not mistaken, I think ASRock too uses AMI BIOS.