Quote Originally Posted by superman View Post
@ lambark

less cutting-edge motherboard

ATB,
This board is Socket-F: old enough to have been out of production for ~5 years. You can't even buy them from Supermicro at this point.

At some point I must have seemed annoyed enough to satisfy the poltergeists: After one last hard-reset (remove battery & short the
leads with a screwdriver) the existing unetbootin+gentoo install loaded the kernel as usual and I'm running again.

Same thumb drive.
Same reset to failsafe defaults.
Same re-configs of fan, etc, in the bios.

Poltergeists.