AdvancedKittyWarfer

Motherboard: Asus rog Strix x470-i gaming running the 2406 bios. Was planning on flashing newer bios as Im buying a 5800x. So to start my troubles off, before I flashed any bios (havent flashed any yet) I just updated the Bluetooth driver and rebooted the PC. My PC screams at me that suddenly there is no boot drive, after going through all the boot and sata options in the UEFI. At last I decided to open up my poor old PC and just unplugged my SATA SSD and my two HDDs leaving my m.2 nvme to be alone. Suddenly everything works, so I shut down my pc turn off the PSU and wait like 3 seconds to plug the other drives in. I reboot the PC and I get into windows but at first it fails to load windows then reboots and then freezes when I enter in my password and now my motherboard doesnt find the bootdrive again... Im at loss of what Im supposed to do now... Currently there's a 2700x in there supposed to be shipped off to some far away stranger tomorrow, which means I gotta get my bios to at least version 4007 where the 5000-series support is added for my mobo within 3 hours. Edit: It works now... Did nothing and it just worked now for no reason.

There's a m.2 heatsink on the mobo that you need to remove in order to install a m.2 drive but ehm... the screws looks awfully small so I have to buy a new screwdriver and Im just wondering what size or type it could possibly be?

Was it okay if I touched it with some paper towel first? Because I did that...

How to remove that little spot that I have left?

Currently using the Phantkes Enthoo Evolv ITX case but switching to a Fractal Design Meshify C mini which is a mATX case.

I didnt end up redoing it, I deemed it to be safe. I literally had bunch of thermal paste on the mobo from the wraith prism I had before but this is the result as of right now, didnt tidy up the cables because Im switching to another case next week so

Uhm... Installing my Be quiet dark rock pro 4 right now... Is this alright? (Picture)

It's these ones, literally cant find them on Crucials website so

Yeah they're a few years old and Crucial has removed them entirely from their website so I have to go to review websites to find information about them. These are the ones I have, and they say 37mm so I just have to trust them on that. Edit at a closer look it says 38.6mm but that still under 40mm

Yeah I found that yesterday too so I hope it fits, I also hope that the height of my ram is really 37mm because otherwise Im in trouble

Hello, Im considering throwing away my stock cooler (Wraith Prism or whatever its called) and upgrading to a be Quiet! Dark rock Pro 4 but I might have clearance issues, no not with ram or height but with the actual motherboard itself, I have an Asus Rog Strix x470-I gaming, a mITX mobo and usually in most cases the cooler probably fits on a mITX board without any issues but Asus sometimes goes overkill with their high end mITX boards and well in the attached picture you can see the mobo actually has a daughterboard and Im not sure if the Dark rock pro 4 will fit because of it. I can remove the m.2 heatsink that is on the daughterboard but not the daughterboard

Shit just worked after turning it off and on again. Wtf Asus...

Noticed a green yellow led on the mobo which means its in boot but stuck I guess?

Just to make sure, should I turn it off coz its still a black screen and Im so scared right now.

Okay, as Im writing this my pc is on and the screen is completely black. I just updated my bios because I wanna see if it makes RDR2 finally work for me. I downloaded the correct file from asus website for my motherboard and put it on a usb stick, went into bios/uefi chose the file and clicked update. It did its job and told me it successfully updated my bios and then told me if I wanna reset everything and sure I do I have to after an bios update. But after this the press F1 screen usually comes up (I have updated the bios previously and if I remember correctly this step is directly after) but... No its just a black screen? Do I turn it off? Im super scared because Im a piss poor student atm and I cant afford to replace my motherboard.. My mobo: Asus Rog strix X470-I gaming went from version 2202 to 2304 There's no update between them so I know its the right one.