csakstar

Hi, I recently picked up a cheap ASRock B365M-ITX/AC and decided to get a modified laptop to desktop CPU to run with it. Unfortunately, ASRock's built in BIOS update tool won't let you update it through their programmer with the modified BIOS. I also tried using a CH341A USB programmer, but unfortunately it can't read the BIOS file as the BIOS chip on the board doesn't seem to be supported by the BIOS programmer. Does anyone have any ideas on different things to try to get this flash to go through?

Awesome, thank you for the confirmation! I bought a B450 board in the meantime. I checked the BIOS support for my B350 board (B350M Bazooka) and unfortunately it only mentions 2000 series chips. Prior to the Windows 11 BIOS update (that's the only thing that BIOS version mentioned) the last update was in 2019. I ended up getting an ASRock B450M Pro-F. Do you know if this particular board supports from 1xxx to 5xxx series of CPUs?

I bought a CPU that didn't come advertised as having bent pins, but it was about $40-50 cheaper than the going rate on eBay. I managed to get the pins straightened out except for one which was bent all the way into the PCB, which upon trying to straighten out, snapped off. It is in the bottom right corner when looking at the CPU if you were reading the text. I looked at the AM4 pinout from Reddit below and it seems to just be a VSS pin. While I wait for a motherboard, what are the chances that this CPU will even work after it arrives? .

MSi X79A-GD45

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I picked up a cheap prebuilt system online containing a Gigabyte H81N motherboard and 16GB RAM. I had planned to upgrade the CPU from the included G3220 to a Xeon E3 1231 V3. PC worked fine on integrated graphics, so I went ahead and swapped out the CPU for the Xeon and added the RX 550 since the CPU doesn't have integrated graphics. No dice. I swapped back in the old CPU, with the 550 still installed and the display cable plugged into the 550. No picture. I shut it off and moved the cable to the integrated graphics of the G3220. Worked fine. Figured I may as well give the BIOS an update, so I updated it to the latest F5 version. Successful update, no issues with that. I then tried booting into Windows with the G3220 and checking device manager. Nothing listed under display adapters besides the Intel HD from the CPU. I then tried another spare GPU I had laying around an old HD 6450 or something like that (no model listed on the card and I didn't wait around to try and install drivers). Displayed out fine and showed up in device manager as Microsoft Basic Display Adapter since I didn't have drivers preloaded for that old of a card. Thinking maybe the 550 died on me while I was waiting to get this build put together, I tried it in my X79 (an even older platform than the one I'm trying to use it with) system and it works perfect. Shows up in device manager as an RX 550 and runs Unigine Heaven just fine. I've tried loading optimized defaults and making the PCIE slot the primary display adapter on the H81N board. Nothing seems to work. I'm at my wits end with this card. If anyone has any tips or tricks for me, I'm all ears.

Tried with a 3470, which should work without question and now it'll turn on for 20-30 seconds and then off but still no display with or without the GPU

Yeah I think you're right. I'll have to get a different cooler in there and try with a different CPU

Yeah they're pretty much useless. I've tried 4 different sticks of ram, 2 different graphics cards all to the same result. I'm running out of hope that the CPU is supported on the board

Well I was hoping to pair a 16gb kit of Vengeance-Pro 2400 but I've since tried 4 different sticks of memory all with the same result.

I picked up a Zotac H77-ITX-B-E motherboard on the cheap to pair with a Xeon E3 1260L and 16GB of ram. Without a graphics card, the motherboard beeps once for a longer time and then three times shortly. The keyboard, mouse and external drive receive power however I get no display on the monitor (the CPU has integrated graphics so I should theoretically get a display). However, with a graphics card installed the PC powers on, displays no picture and gives off no beeps. There's no power to the keyboard/mouse or external drive. Any suggestions to get it going?

I recently picked up a Gigabyte GTX 660 Windforce OC and everything worked great on it. I went to take apart the card and unfortunately the fan splitter seemed to be super glued to the connector on the pcb and I ended up pulling out one of the wires for the fan splitter from it's connector. I tried melting and pulling off the wire for the splitter and wrapping the individual wires around their pins on the pcb but that isn't working. Is it possible to get a replacement fan splitter? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

I added a GPU-Z screenshot of the card. It still claims to have Samsung VRAM.

Yeah I'm very sure that it is legit. It's got a Gigabyte branded PCB (Gigabyte logo on the board), Gigabyte backplate, the correct cooler, the serial number on the back of the card looks like every other Gigabyte sticker I've ever seen and the serial number when I look it up on Gigabyte's RMA website points to the model that the card is supposed to be. Perhaps GPU-Z was wrong on the memory type but I swear it said Samsung.

I recently picked up a Gigabyte RX 570 4GB with Samsung memory off of Ebay, and unfortunately it had a custom BIOS on it for mining, which is disallowing me from using it normally as a gaming graphics card (gets error 43 in Device Manager). I'm looking into reflashing it into a normal card for gaming, but I have a few questions before I did that. 1) What tool for flashing would you recommend for the Polaris series? 2) Which BIOS version would I even use? None of the BIOS listed here: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-RX570GAMING-4GD#support-dl-bios say that they are for Samsung memory. Thank you very much in advance. Edit: Forgot to mention that I have Rev 1.0 Edit 2: GPU-Z screenshot link: https://imgur.com/fMlTqu9

I recently moved to a new apartment and brought my computer over yesterday. I had ordered a new displayport cable as my old one was causing the screen to go black randomly for a second while I was using my PC. I made the switch to the new cable when I brought over the PC and one of my monitors to my new apartment (I had a dual-monitor set up at my old house and will likely go back to that at some point). Unfortunately, the display port connection doesn't seem to want to work anymore. HDMI will work fine, everything displays on the monitor as it should (Dell S2716DG). In DisplayPort mode however, the monitor will not do anything past the POST screens. As soon as Windows should kick in, the screen goes into power saving mode. However, when I use HDMI to get into Windows, I can plug in the DisplayPort cable, unplug the HDMI completely, and switch back to DisplayPort mode on my monitor and everything works as it should. If I shut down though, I have to go through the same process all over again. I've tried adjusting the performance mode in NVidia Control Panel and disabling deep sleep mode on the monitor to no avail. Is this just a case of a bad cable (seems unlikely since I can use it just fine once I'm actually in Windows), or is something else at work here that I'm missing?