On 2020-12-29 at 13:05, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 dec 20, 06:52:12, The Wanderer wrote: > >> That would indicate that this will have been using the ISOLINUX >> boot path, because as previously noted, this motherboard has a >> BIOS; if my memory is correct it predates UEFI entirely, > > According to Wikipedia in 2011 major vendors launched several > consumer-oriented motherboards with UEFI. As far as I recall your > board is from 2012. No - the most recent BIOS update for this board was released in 2012. I think I bought it in 2010 or 2011; the purchase would have been on the basis of a review on The Tech Report (which was in full swing at the time), and the motherboard-review article for that model on that site is dated October of 2010. I'd have to dig deeper into my archives to identify the exact purchase date, but I don't believe it was as late as 2012. >> and at the very least I've seen zero indication that it has one. > > BTW, who about specifying exactly what motherboard you have and card > you bought, unless it's confidential ;) I thought I already did indicate the motherboard. It's this one (except purchased new, not used): https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813131665 Asus Sabertooth X58. The GPU I'm trying to get working is: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WNSP41M > Maybe some hardware expert (not me) reading the list spots something > useful in the specs. I doubt there's anything there to be found, but one never does know. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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