Whether or not you are one for sipping a cuppa whereas tuning into your favorite creator’s ‘Simply Chatting’ stream, otherwise you merely discover being the only real viewer of a small streamer oddly compelling, of us actually will watch something. This apparently consists of the decided inching ahead of a progress bar for a 100-hour BIOS replace.
The saga started when a Reddit person with an unimaginable title, GoatWithAGun, first posted every week in the past to grouse about their BIOS replace breaching the four-hour mark. It is nonetheless unclear why the replace progressed at a snail’s tempo, displaying 66% on the 24-hour mark. Nevertheless, with no twin BIOS motherboard, or the choice to make use of BIOS flashback, the person had no possibility however to let the replace proceed to run.
Because the oh-so-slowly progressing replace ventured into multi-day territory and the group of a sure subreddit started to get invested, the person arrange a livestream, which loved a peak of 88,000 views. Alas, this story doesn’t finish in victory; GoatWithAGun’s newest replace brings the saga to an in depth, sharing that after greater than 100 hours, the BIOS replace failed and the PC is now utterly unresponsive.
The Reddit person had beforehand defined the machine in query used a BioStar A320MH motherboard with the final replace earlier than this ill-fated one being from 2018. They selected to replace for some stability fixes, which they wrote they’re “undoubtedly regretting” now.
Nonetheless, there are some silver linings. Mercifully, the useless machine is not the Reddit person’s principal rig however only a backup they go away at their dorm. The person has but to submit a lot about troubleshooting the PC, however the rig’s AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 GPU should have some life left in them (for issues aside from AAA gaming, no less than).
Higher but, donations from the group have apparently already lined the price of a alternative motherboard. Very sometimes, the posters are alright.
Be assured that BIOS updates do not often trigger so many issues, with most taking mere minutes and a few BIOS screens even boasting an entire 1080p decision. BIOS updates are typically price staying on prime of, particularly as holding on to an previous patch may go away your AMD CPU weak to a microcode assault.
They might additionally assist repair a model new recreation that you’ve got been ready an age to play, too, as has occurred to some people who’ve been struggling to get Monster Hunter Wilds engaged on their PCs.
Now, if a BIOS replace may additionally excise these not-actually-that-helpful AI assistants like this Home windows 11 replace by chance did with Copilot, I do not suppose I might thoughts.
