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Odd, every mobo I've bought (most recently about a year ago) has came with a decent sized manual.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So you are telling me you are not trying to get into bios anymore?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Last time was February, when I fitted the SSD and wanted to check the boot order.
And my keypresses resembled a FSOW... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 Ah the lovely struggle.
I may do it in the next month also have to replace one of my old hdd's
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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If you can, replace it with an SSD: the performance improvement of the whole system (even on a lower spec machine, like mine) is incredible!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Already have an SSD in there ^^ But i have to change the 300GB hdd to a 2TB one.
But yeah the change to the ssd was incredible, my monitor takes longer to display the login screen than the pc to boot XD
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Did it just yesterday.  and I've forgotten already.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I do it as well... but I only try one key each boot. When I find it, then I write it down for future ocasions  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 22-Jun-16 3:36am.
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...and then lose the piece of paper?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You can always use a permanent marker and write it in the bottom, that way you always have it there.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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...and then I'd be able to read it when I went to write it the second time!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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oh lord, are you difficult to please
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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True story! 
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But how did you remember the keys to reset?
I, had it the other way. Whenever my PC was not working, I just had to smack it hardly where HDD was close enough. Next time, I could see the Windows 98 screen loading. Loved those days.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I recently had to go into the BIOS, but since my laptop boots so fast I didn't only not know what button to press, but also not when to press it 
After a quick Google I discovered there's a "Restart to BIOS" option 
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And now, with a UEFI system, you can't get into the settings without booting Windows first.
Not sure how that works if you need to get into the settings because Windows won't boot. Thankfully, I haven't encountered that problem yet.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's not true of either of the UEFI desktops I've built in the last 18 mo. In the first of them I was fiddling around in the BIOS for several days before I even had an OS loaded. (Porting a BIOS/MBR OS image to a UEFI/GPT system ended up being at least as much of a PITA as reinstalling/configuring half of the eleven jillion apps on my old PC and turning the old boxes OS into a VM would've been.) The second was much easier but I was still in the BIOS first to check stuff like default boot order/etc before installing the OS.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Everything I've read says that Windows boots so fast on a UEFI system that there's no time to press a key to enter the settings.
You have to hold down Shift and restart from within Windows; or go to "Settings -> Updates -> Recovery -> Advanced Startup"; or use shutdown.exe /r /o from the command prompt / run box.
Apparently, if Windows can't start, the UEFI boot menu should come up automatically. Maybe that's why you didn't have any problems getting in to it before you'd installed the OS.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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My XPS13 laptop might post that fast (never really paid attention); but at least for enthusiast class boards the sub second post time hype never came to be. UEFI is faster; but POST times for those boards are still on the ballpark of 15 seconds (which is still a lot faster than on older BIOS systems). It also seems to either be dominated by a few non-optional steps or well parallelized (this was the promise for faster posting vs bios being single threaded one component at a time) because stripping the startup (turning off whatever optional crap you don't use) no longer offers much of a speed up (normally a second or two vs 5 to 20 secs on BIOS).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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For that matter; most of the BIOS systems I've had for the last dozen years have had at most a second when they accepted the enter BIOS key; and a lot of them didn't flash an indicator so you just had to mash the button continuously from power on until you got the BIOS screen.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just hit the Konami code. Works wonders.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For (my extremely slowly) upcoming take over the world project I created a new (C#) serializer!
Why?
Well this take over the world project, without disclosing too much, is a document editor. I need to save those documents. Writing a Save() and Read() method is quite cumbersome... Serializer, XML Serializer and DataContractSerializer don't make the cut for obvious reason. JsonSerializer is too bloated (think a list of 1000 points, endlessly repeating "x =" or "{" or "}") plus it doesn't work very well with property of type object or List<object>
Enter my serializer, it's version tolerant, strongly typed, have some kind of header with all type info, then it's a stream of value and I think it's output quite a compact stream of data.
And it works with PCL (i.e. desktop, UWP, IOS, Android, Linux with .NET core)
And it just finally worked! this morning at 8:35AM! 
(well, not completely.. I just tweaked a test which then failed.. apparently there is still a known bug...)
Well all of that to say...
I might make a CodeProject article if there is some interest for it! 
As a side note, Not really a GitHub project since it's smack in the middle of my utility library and removing it is .. tedious since I shared plenty of reflection extension method....
modified 21-Jun-16 19:02pm.
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Super Lloyd wrote: might make a CodeProject article if there is some interest for it!
Yes please!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Alright then! 
Plus I got some silent upvote...
CP Article I guess it is! ^_^
Hopefully next week!
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