On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote:
Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
Since when does "do something dumb" and "potentially hard brick your motherboard" become synonymous when speaking in terms of computers?
There's doing something dumb (by accident or otherwise) and then there's bricking your motherboard, people make accidents all the time but since modern day computers are quite nice and rugged, the only losses are data losses.
* Use legacy BIOS. There is nothing wrong with it.
Exactly, I really don't understand this interest to UEFI (and don't mention secureboot). Also, how can you brick a machine by simply zeroing the harddrive? Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D