OK, let me first say that when I was paying $89.00 for a "top of the line" motherboard so long ago, I NEVER felt that I was going to be "left behind".
Where we are today is left with the attitude that "well it works if you set defaults" is so ****ing aggravating that I do not want to participate in furthering this technology.
If my support factor is "well, if you set defaults, it works", is the answer, maybe I should buy a Dell, HP, or Lenovo.
I have, after pushing my Z77X-UP5TH to support Windows 8.1, reached the conclusion that after trying making it comply with Windows 8.1 corrupts the BIOS, given up on aftermarket motherboard support.
Gigabyte, if you think that the only thing that matters is the "current" chipset, i.e. Z87, is all that matters to your young punk BIOS team, then you are sadly mistaken.
There has been more than enough time for testing with Windows 8.1 Preview to determine the correct Windows 8.0/8.1 UEFI default settings with the current UEFI BIOSes patched into the main BIOS.
I give up on, not just Gigabyte, but the entire aftermarket BIOS effort entirely.
How complicated is this? You are given parameters that you must follow from the OS provider and you cannot do this with any sort of consistency.
Sure the OEMs out there force the "default" settings upon me, but I do NOT have to worry about BIOS corruption along with an insecure OS.
And if that is not enough, Microsoft is in bed, to the point of ass ****ing the NSA, that everything that my Apps do is stored in a server somewhere that can be accessed anytime they want.
I give up on, no functioning BIOS, no security, blocked foreign IP address from the NSA, and my information being given freely to anyone that wants it, that I will soon learn Linux or just go back to flying my 6 ft. wingspan RC planes for fun.
From 1984 until today I thought Microsoft had a future. I was mislead, lied to, prompted to mark check boxes that gave my information to everyone, until I do NOT know where I should turn. I gave up on public media several years ago and now they are intercepting my freedom of information, BY DEFAULT!
Time to move on to another frontier and allow the minions to follow their God to their loyal leaders.
Where we are today is left with the attitude that "well it works if you set defaults" is so ****ing aggravating that I do not want to participate in furthering this technology.
If my support factor is "well, if you set defaults, it works", is the answer, maybe I should buy a Dell, HP, or Lenovo.
I have, after pushing my Z77X-UP5TH to support Windows 8.1, reached the conclusion that after trying making it comply with Windows 8.1 corrupts the BIOS, given up on aftermarket motherboard support.
Gigabyte, if you think that the only thing that matters is the "current" chipset, i.e. Z87, is all that matters to your young punk BIOS team, then you are sadly mistaken.
There has been more than enough time for testing with Windows 8.1 Preview to determine the correct Windows 8.0/8.1 UEFI default settings with the current UEFI BIOSes patched into the main BIOS.
I give up on, not just Gigabyte, but the entire aftermarket BIOS effort entirely.
How complicated is this? You are given parameters that you must follow from the OS provider and you cannot do this with any sort of consistency.
Sure the OEMs out there force the "default" settings upon me, but I do NOT have to worry about BIOS corruption along with an insecure OS.
And if that is not enough, Microsoft is in bed, to the point of ass ****ing the NSA, that everything that my Apps do is stored in a server somewhere that can be accessed anytime they want.
I give up on, no functioning BIOS, no security, blocked foreign IP address from the NSA, and my information being given freely to anyone that wants it, that I will soon learn Linux or just go back to flying my 6 ft. wingspan RC planes for fun.
From 1984 until today I thought Microsoft had a future. I was mislead, lied to, prompted to mark check boxes that gave my information to everyone, until I do NOT know where I should turn. I gave up on public media several years ago and now they are intercepting my freedom of information, BY DEFAULT!
Time to move on to another frontier and allow the minions to follow their God to their loyal leaders.
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