I'm back

[Mike Soda]

I can't remember when I made my last post here & was even more thrown off finding out about that windows exploit effecting lighting & fan control. Quarantined it & everything still seems to be working fine so far so good. But while we're on the subject of crap I'm behind on, is there anything in particular by LLT I can watch to get caught up? To be honest, I've just been using my phones the past 5+ years (currently an s21 5g) & my pc specs haven't changed. I know I'll need to finally update motherboard drivers at some point. Just finished updating win 10 & my 1060 3g, so I'm assuming I'll have to run some distro of Linux going forward with win 10 support ending soon. If any of you have helpful advice regarding that I'd love to know. I'm hoping to be more active in the tech world again, I've just been working almost non stop the past few years with almost no time to game or participate in the communities I used to.

[Caroline]

4 hours ago, Mike Soda said:

I know I'll need to finally update motherboard drivers at some point.

Why? Why mess with something that works? same as BIOS update, users think it's mandatory or something... BIOS should only be updated whenever the manufacturer ensures compatibility with a new CPU you're going to buy.

 

If you use Linux you can keep the base drivers, unless it's some arcane motherboard with an oddly specific add-on that requires a driver, 99.9% will work with the base drivers included in pretty much every major distro.

[Mike Soda]

21 hours ago, Caroline said:

Why? Why mess with something that works? same as BIOS update, users think it's mandatory or something... BIOS should only be updated whenever the manufacturer ensures compatibility with a new CPU you're going to buy.

 

If you use Linux you can keep the base drivers, unless it's some arcane motherboard with an oddly specific add-on that requires a driver, 99.9% will work with the base drivers included in pretty much every major distro.

You're probably right but oddly now every time I boot my pc it goes straight to bios. I can still esc out of it & boot to desktop like normal but this has never happened before. I'm assuming it's related to some of the windows 10 updates I did, thoughts?

[Caroline]

3 hours ago, Mike Soda said:

You're probably right but oddly now every time I boot my pc it goes straight to bios. I can still esc out of it & boot to desktop like normal but this has never happened before. I'm assuming it's related to some of the windows 10 updates I did, thoughts?

OS updates can't mess with the BIOS, it's separate.

Check the boot order, whenever it automatically goes into the setup is to tell you the load order is wrong or the boot drive is missing.