Comment 172 for bug 1671360

My Gigabyte AB350m G3 decided to play dead today. In the morning it started OK, and after a few light browsing and a little coding I shut it down. After about an hour, when I tried powering it on, it was dead. No fan spin, no LED-s, no sign of life whatsoever. After troubleshooting all day swapping parts, power supplies, removing RAM, re-seating the CPU, I was about ready to start a warranty claim. I still could not believe a month and a half old motherboard could just die without any prior symptoms. It wasn't even overclocked, even the ram was running at only 2133mhz - ultra durable my a**. As a last resort I tried removing the BIOS battery and shorting the clr_cmos jumper with the battery removed and it came back to life.
After all the problems I had with Ubuntu support, when things started to look like they were improving, this made me think seriously about ordering an Asus or even AsRock replacement board for when it decides to have some other annoying problem. I would not recommend this board in the current state, especially not for an Ubuntu Linux system.
Sorry for not being exactly on topic since this is probably not Linux or Ubuntu related. Unless Ubuntu does something strange on shutdown?