jkf
3d ago
I find it interesting that the extrapolated numbers fail at low values of house area, literally giving a negative number for the minimum cost of a 1-story house.
I mean it's not literally the case that somebody will pay you $1500 to build a zero square foot house, but this seems like a pretty acceptable discontinuity assuming that the formula otherwise gives good results?
jkf
6d ago
Polling for the BIOS key should be the very first thing that the system does after POST pretty much, though -- if it's boot-looping at various points in the process, this should be possible.
What's the specific motherboard? As I said, DP systems are quite niche in desktop/gaming use these days but there are niche communities associated that may be able to help -- the boards are server-oriented and can be quirky.
If it truly won't enter the BIOS menu that's a pretty big clue in itself -- standard procedure would be to unplug absolutely everything from the board but one stick of RAM, a keyboard and mouse, enter the BIOS using onboard VGA (if present) and proceed from there.
The (first) lie was pretty much true though -- masks (as implemented) didn't work, and it was always obvious that there was no way they could work.
The second lie is much more interesting.
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