Re: Building computer
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Catherine Gramze <rhiamom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I contacted MSI to ask if they made a motherboard I could use. Here is the
> exchange:
>
> Me: I want to purchase a motherboard for a Linux computer. I would prefer
> one that would accept the new Haswell processor. The BIOS must allow for
> Secure Boot to be disabled, and CSM mode to be enabled, e.g. UEFI disabled.
> This would obviously be a board that is not compliant with Microsoft's new
> "Connected-stand-by" feature. Do you make such a board, and if you do which
> board might it be?
> MSI tech: MSI does not perform and provide any Linux support for mb, only
> Windows.
>
> This looks to me like a stock refusal to even consider a technical question
> (because I mentioned Linux) rather than an affirmation that they have
> implemented Connected-standby and that their BIOS lacks the options to
> disable Secure Boot and UEFI.
Why don't you want UEFI?
(I'd never heard of Connected Standby before. Any idea how to check,
from Linux, whether it's supported by the firmware?)
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