Contacting intel so far has been OK, and they do accept linux as a valid system to report bugs against which is a nice change but it is really starting to feel like dealing with wine bugs. Overall, I thought going with an intel board might be worth it for a stable "reference" platform but this is by far, without doubt, the buggiest board I have come across ever. The other workaround to it is to disable WOL in the BIOS (I know, I know, WTF does WOL have to do with USB 3 but it does work).
I have not seen however any distro that has backported the patch in their updates yet. It swishes the USB 3 ports first to ehci mode before shutting down. There is a patch available that can be backported on the LKM to fix this which can be backported to other kernels. These boards have a chipset bug in the USB 3 controller that causes the system to do a reboot instead of a shutdown. This occurs on all versions of the BIOS post 0062 and it even occurs when the BIOS is set to traditional BIOS mode and uEFI disabled.ģrd if you plan on shutting down the system, you must use a kernel >= 3.5.2. The only way to boot to the SSD is to manually hit F10 to get the boot selection screen and select it there. There is yet another bug in their BIOS that forces the system to try to boot to an installed conventional instead despite the BIOS/uEFI clearly being set to boot off the mPCIe SSD. Second, if you plan to use the the mPCI-e sata capabilities, do not plan on using it for a boot drive and another traditional drive for data. intel has fixed that in the latest BIOS but still has uEFI issues.
If you stick with an older BIOS there is a very strong possibility that some of your PCI-e cards will not work (such as tv tuners). But wait there is another "gotcha" with going that route. So if you want to boot uEFI, be prepared to stick with an older uEFI BIOS such as 0062 or older.
In fact if you upgrade the BIOS, be prepared for all NVRAM uEFI entries to be lost rendering your installed OS unbootable. intel in their infinite wisdom decided to "fix this" by making newer versions of the BIOS incapable of storing the proper NVRAM entries for a uEFI boot. Early versions of the BIOS/uEFI BIOS did allow for successful booting via uEFI. If anyone is considering this board there are some things they should know about before they consider purchasing it.įirst of all, these things have absolutely horrid BIOS/uEFI implementations. The reason I bought this board was because it had a mPCI-e slot for a mPCI-e SSD. Then press F2 to get back into the bios to make any changes you have left to make and viola you're done.Just thought I would post a few things I have encountered with these motherboards. Press F9 to set it to defaults, then enter to accept.
Plug the pc back in, power it on and press F2 repeatedly until you're into the bios. Unplug the PC, put the jumper back in place (it should go on pins 1 and 2, they're labelled) Wait for it to tell you to power off the pc then do so. Plug the PC in, power it on and it will automatically start the process.
Go on another pc, put in a usb2.o drive, format it to fat32, do not select quick format.ĭownload the new bios you want to use, copy it onto the USBĮject the USB insert it into the pc you want to update the bios on. Power off the pc, unplug it, then take out the jumper. There's a jumper on the motherboard, it will be the only one that's yellow.
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