Fast delivery and board came complete with no missing items recomend this board if you want to get on intel lga 1851 core ultra cpus

flashed latest bios on bare board before starting build (no cpu, memory, display, etc, just psu)people saying usb2/fat32 is most reliable for update, so formatted an old 4gb usb2 stickdownload zipped rom from asrock site, unzip, rename bios image file to creative.rom, copy to empty thumb drivewith psu not plugged into wall socket connect 24 pin connector from psu to mobo, insert thumb drive with single file 'creative.rom' into the ***usb port with white box drawn around it***, power on psuhold button labeled 'bios flbk' for 3 or 4 seconds until the LED starts flashing; wait 5 minutes or so until the LED stops flashing, power off psu and unplug from wall then finish the buildinstalled xubuntu 24.10 and it booted fine first try, ethernet and wifi see the router, 265k onboard graphics functioning with single HD panel (may try hi-res multi-mon later)sometimes linux has problems with bleeding-edge hw, but no issues so far... huzzah!*** update ***running intel arc xe2 graphics (no dgpu) with one HD panel (via mobo hdmi port) and two 2560x1440 panels (via mobo thunderbolt ports)this is a development machine so works great for my purposesusing optical out to dac for native audio (works in my debian 12.8 vm's as well)