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I got a mainboard out of an Acer X3995, I wished to recycle.
First had to figure out the pins for the front panel switch and LEDs.
Going to Acer website, they have 4 BIOS to download:
2 for Win8, 1 for Win7 and 1 for linux.
Why so? I don't think other manufacturers specify a restrictive BIOS.

Someone here installed Linux without changing the
BIOS, so who knows ???

"[SOLVED] Installation impossible on acer aspire X3995"

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2053938

"try nomodeset"

I can find zero documentation addressing the matter.

Paul