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I'm so fed up with this sh*tty product called ASRock J4205-ITX! Its behaviour is so sporadic that it's almost hilarious.

• Sometimes it POSTs in 8s; sometimes it requires 42s!
  
• Most of the time it only needs to boot once; sometimes it boots twice from cold before successful POST (while mains power has never been interrupted from last cold shutdown).
  
• J4205-ITX has got problems with some power switches of some enclosures, while the switches of those enclosures work perfectly fine with the motherboards from all my other systems.
  

The above is under BIOS v1.20 (not that the former was any better).

Going to contact ASRock customer support. Not going to burden the webshop I've bought the board from again. I probably shouldn't hope for too much, but hoping to get any of the following out of it:

• A new BIOS version at the hands of my complaints that removes all POST issues.
  
• RMA for replacement if software update can't apologize for (probably) sh*tty hardware, and I get lucky that my replacement has got 0 POST issues.
  
• RMA for refund if none of the above are able to solve and I'm stuck with a defective product.
  

I completely regret having bought into Intel's Atom platform. Would've been better off if I just went with an LGA system along with a RX 460. It would've only had an additional net cost of 111€ for the GFXcard, but it would've allowed me to have a way vaster selection of OEMs and SKUs, lower upgrade cost for new future codecs that require a new GPU, more features (the Atom platform still hasn't got HDR10 support, while GFXcards have had it for quite a while now, and it still doesn't support DDR4, which is outrageous for a Q4 2016 product), and proper implemented HDMI 2.0 (instead of a janky ghetto DP to HDMI 2.0 converter).