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Desperate to replace the 13 year old system used as an HTPC,
based on a Gigabyte Mini-ITX motherboard, I searched for a replacement.

It had to have a PCIe slot to take a Turbosoft DVB-T2 TV card.
It also had to take an AMD Ryzen 7700 7 because I had two brand new and
boxed that I couldn't sell. (Long story).

I found an ASRock B850M Pro-A microATX that seemed perfect. Except!
a microATX is larger than a Min-ITX board.

That turned out not bto matter.

It all went together OK, except the system would not recognise either
of my two Turbosoft TV cards. No manual is supplied with boards these
days so you have to download and print it yourself. Except! 

There are no BIOS details in it. I spent many hours trying to tweak BIOS
options but the system (Mint 22.3) could not seem to find a fix. In the
end I recruited my pal Hazim, a professional system builder and
debugger. As both TV cards had worked in my other machines, I wondered
if the problem was the motherboard itself. 

Hazim, replaced the TV card with a network card. Sure enough, as we
booted up, the device's lamps twinkled. So the motherboard itself was
not faulty.

I had written to Turnosoft technical support. Their suggestion to
change the PCIe socket's link speed frpm Gen1 (my choice), to Gen2 di
not work.

Hazim did not trust Linux so we plugged in his portable Windows 10
portable SSD system and booted on that. It made no difference of course.

Although I did admire Windows driver handling windows. I had forgotten
that it did have some virtues.

Hazim's advice? Don't buy ASRock products. They are the cheapest and it
shows. My experience with motherboards during the last 12 months is
also to avoid ASUS because their boards have no diagnostic lamps. I try
to use Gigabyte because they do, although their user manual is also
spartan on configuring the BIOS but it does have some info.

I hope this helps someone else.

Regards, Alan

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1 kernel version 6.8.0-84-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8
AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda

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ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 18:53 +0100
  Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 20:54 +0200
    Re: ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 12:27 +0100
      Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 14:40 +0200
  Re: ASRock motherboards George <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-14 20:04 +0100
    Re: ASRock motherboards "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-05-14 16:17 -0400
      Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 03:58 -0700
        Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 04:31 -0700
          Re: ASRock motherboards "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-05-15 08:00 -0400
            Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 08:35 -0700
    Re: ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 12:19 +0100
  Re: ASRock motherboards Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-14 15:36 -0400
    Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: ASRock motherboards "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-05-15 19:01 +0200
    Re: ASRock motherboards Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-15 17:54 -0400
      Re: ASRock motherboards "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-05-17 16:36 +0200
        Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-17 17:08 +0200
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