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In case you don't know, I use an ASUS motherboard and I've used Gigabyte and
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MSI boards too in the past. One problem they all have in common is the BIOS
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or UEFI menu. It's always awful, and I'm going to talk about why that is.
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## What's English?
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If you've built a PC in the past you're no doubt familiar with this. Somehow
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consumers spend far too much money on sometimes high-end motherboards and
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despite that, they cannot even be bothered to pay competent people to
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translate the text to English.
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The end result is you get spelling mistakes at best and hilarious translation
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errors that can lead to the user not comprehending what the option in
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the BIOS ACTUALLY does. I've encountered this issue on all motherboards
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I've ever had, but they seem to be less common with prebuilt PCs.
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The year is 2023. Fix your fucking translations when people pay far
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too much for your god damn product.
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## The menu is always a buggy mess
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I'm sure other motherboards have different issues, and maybe I just got
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unlucky or something, but here is an incomplete list of issues I've had
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with my ASUS board so far.
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- Ignores my keyboard input when starting up, so the end result is I
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cannot enter the UEFI menu or boot menu.
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- Randomly decides it doesn't want to post until I reboot the machine
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MANY times and wait 10 or more minutes.
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- Removes boot entries every once in a while for absolutely no reason.
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- VT-d and XMP disable themselves
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- Claims to have overheated despite being completely idle with good
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temperatures.
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You may be yelling "UPDATE YOUR BIOS!!!" right now, and I *did* update
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it recently. It fixed a few of these issues but it still ignores my
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keyboard input, still decides to not post for seemingly no reason
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and still removes boot entries.
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The lack of quality control is very clear. Besides, you shouldn't expect
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consumers to update their BIOS because you couldn't be bothered to write
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firmware that isn't garbage. Updating is risky, because if you lose power
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or something, you're fucked.
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## Options are impossible to find
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Not much I need to say, but if you've ever used a modern UEFI menu you
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know how difficult it is to find basic features. There's always stupid
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gamer aesthetics and junk that makes it impossible to find what
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you're looking for.
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Options are hidden away in categories that sometimes make absolutely
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no sense. Not to mention, on my specific board on boot it will tell me
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the key to get into the UEFI menu, but it will not tell me what key
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to press to get into the boot menu. So unless you search it up or
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read the manual you will have no idea.
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You could argue that this isn't necessary, but in that case why would
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they display the key to enter the UEFI at all?
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## What about prebuilt PCs?
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Those are the problems with most BIOSes, or at least the problems I
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could think of. That said, most of them don't apply to prebuilt PCs.
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Prebuilt PCs have other issues, such as lacking features. Yeah, instead
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of having pretty much too many features leading to confusion, prebuilt
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PCs often lack what I would consider essential features. But at least
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the menus are usually simple, don't have a bunch of bloat, and as such
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seem to be a lot more stable.
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