So I might have cheapened out on the motherboard, a lot of strange things have happened during the last year, refusal to boot after some time,changing of bios options without me doing it...I wish computers still had locks that needed external keys to unlock any possible I/O like back with my old 486SX 16mhz (33mhz with turbo!).
Here's the whole situation (unless there's a PSU showing option for inxi, I have like 4 things to do at once so I won't be looking that up, i welcome your correction. But, enumerating all the issues I'm having, since 1 years, the first 2 years were smooth sailing....
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inxi
CPU~Octa core AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core (-MCP-) speed/max~1400/4000 MHz Kernel~4.4.0-59-generic x86_64 Up~1 day Mem~7643.5/15947.9MB HDD~4701.0GB(45.9% used) Procs~362 Client~Shell inxi~2.2.28
fypz@fypz-desktop ~ $ inxi -M
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
Bios: American Megatrends v: 2701 date: 03/24/2016
All that said, does someone have a motherboard that isn't much bigger but maybe better laid out than the M5A97 LE R2.0? Unless someone wants me to list all issues I've had, especially when in Linux, but also when I boot in windows 7, I've seen blue screens just from moving a lot of data from drive to drive, didn't matter if it was external to internal, the opposite, external to external, internal to internal...I've seen everything and I'm sufficiently pissed off that I will get myself a christmas present. I'd like it very much if I didn't have to change desktop box, the whole thing works perfectly, I guess it is a regular ATX motherboard in size, but installing a high quality (then anyway) graphics card, which are rather humongous when compared to the one that was connected to the previous mobo, right now it's sporting a Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 8890 (codename Malta), so big that it hides the PCI 1x Express port, where someone who's other job is based on music, I need a high quality pci 1x express sound card, I made due with an older PCI card that was pretty good from Creative but it's dying, at least according to Linux Mint, it won't show up every boot, maybe 1 out of 5-6 boots. Windows 7 ultimate does see it at all times though. So I don't know what to think. At least I have a rather very viable processor, so I can build around it.
Definitely sorry for the long-winded post, but I rather give you all information I find relevant as of now (even the UEFI part, if all motherboard now are UEFI only...I'm very discouraged and will go for used, better, mobos than the one I have.