Leo didn’t answer. He was staring at the server’s chassis, a black monolith humming with twelve fans and three thousand dollars’ worth of RAM. Inside, the Z690 chipset—the nervous system of the whole machine—was being rewritten. Every PCIe lane, every interrupt request, every handshake between the CPU and the rest of the world was, at this very moment, in a state of surgical flux.
The server rebooted normally. Faster than before, actually. The BIOS splash screen flashed by in half a second. Windows loaded in four. update intel chipset
Intel Chipset driver update complete. New hardware detected. Leo didn’t answer
At 47%, the bar jumped to 72%.