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Is Your System Slow After Flashing Your BIOS?

Posted on March 28, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

You were just trying to be a good Internet citizen, patching your firmware and ensuring system stability and security.  But it all went wrong… Public Service Announcement: Remember to reconfigure your BIOS settings after flashing. End Public Service Announcement I … Continue reading →

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Updating the Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H BIOS

Posted on March 28, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

In the previous post I mention the following announcements in my kernel ring buffer (visible through the dmesg utility): [Firmware Bug]:  AMD-Vi:  IOAPIC[0] not in IVRS table [Firmware Bug]:  AMD-Vi:  No southbridge IOAPIC found [Firmware Bug]:  AMD-Vi:  Disabling interrupt remapping … Continue reading →

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Overclocking the A10-6800k (Richland 4.1 GHz) (Update: Benchmarks!)

Posted on March 17, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So, I attempted to use AMD Overdrive to overclock my Richland 4.1 GHz A10-6800k on my Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H.  The 2133 MHz RAM I’m using should allow the GPU to operate under fairly optimal conditions given current hardware standards. Unfortunately, while … Continue reading →

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