[whitemary]

The "high end" PC parts market comprises such a horrendous pit of garbage.

The only way to know if anything even works to begin with is to read all (poorly written) manuals front to back taking notes, then procure the rest of the parts and rigorously test them yourself within all of their 30 day return windows. And even then you're virtually guaranteed to miss some glaring issue.

Just last week, an obscure forum post from someone who already went through the tech support/RMA gamut saved me from wasting a month + $5K on a build with a motherboard that doesn't support sleep mode, which the manufacturer ASRock doesn't mention anywhere.

[miahi]

Yeah, the sleep is a mess with new hardware (and MS also does not help, with the new OS sleep). I have a "creator"-targeted MB from Gigabyte and it does sleep, but if it wakes up immediately after I put it to sleep (because of a mouse move), it does a series of 7-8 BIOS initalizations/restarts and it resets the full BIOS in the process.

[shocks]

If on Linux you can try: https://askubuntu.com/questions/252743/how-do-i-prevent-mous...

Ymmv

[whitemary]

This issue was with the ASRock WRX80 Creator R2.0, so I got the R1.0 version instead. Now I'm wondering if it resets the bios on wake.