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After having spent a few hours messing around with my workstation, trying to get it to boot, I decided it's time for an AMI BIOS hate thread.
These things are insanely popular - most of you will know them as the !§"%@?!$ that Supermicro uses on their motherboards (where they're also a pain in the ass).
I'll start by airing my grievances:
I eagerly await horror tales of AMI BIOSes.
These things are insanely popular - most of you will know them as the !§"%@?!$ that Supermicro uses on their motherboards (where they're also a pain in the ass).
I'll start by airing my grievances:
- Random boot loops. On both my ASRock X99 WS and my X11SSM-F, these things often hang in the middle of the boot process. Sometimes they even reboot. When it does get to the OS, everything works normally, most of the time...
- Trying to fix the above on my ASRock board, I tried to update to the latest version (I hadn't updated in over a year, I think). Big mistake. With the latest BIOS, Windows 10 would not boot. Under any circumstances. At all. It would just hang after a few seconds. I tried everything short of removing internal hardware (except for a small USB Bluetooth adapter I forgot in one of the USB ports) and it would not work. Not in UEFI mode, not in BIOS compatibility mode. Same goes for the boot recovery assistant, same exact symptoms. In the end, I had to flash an older BIOS, so I went from 1.6 to 3.2 and back to 1.7. It didn't seem to work at first, but then magically worked. POST hanging issues still abound, though...
- Their legacy compatibility stuff is absolute trash. Back in the 9.3.1 days, I tried to install it on my X11SSM-F - which didn't work at all, as documented elsewhere. Then I tried my ASRock X99 WS - no luck either. Finally, an Asus Haswell board (exact model escapes me at the moment), with the same AMI scourge, gets the job done - after some hassle getting the boot override functionality to work.
- Their boot override option doesn't work consistently! How could they mess that up? It works badly on my Supermicro boards, it works badly on the Asus board and it's not even present in the 3.2 BIOS for my X99 WS! It's so bad they removed it!
I eagerly await horror tales of AMI BIOSes.