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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?

I recently got in an MSI H67MA-E35 (B3) which was working fine but wouldn't detect the GPU I wanted to install so I updated the BIOS using FreeDOS on a USB. Update went well with no issues but after I let it do it's thing and reboot muliple times, the board is now won't enter the BIOS or post. It keeps getting stuck on A3 and staying there no matter what. I was able to get into the BIOS after switching the RAM for a different stick and hitting F2 to continue and load defaults (which opened the BIOS since I just had the keyboard plugged in). This now no longer works and I can't figure out a way to enter the BIOS again to try to do recovery and reflash the BIOS. The method I used to originally enter the BIOS is no longer working either. Any ideas how to fix this or is this board toast?

I have indeed. I have a few 7950s but this is my first 7970. I'm not really sure what the issue is now.

Update to this. I was able to reflash the VBIOS and while I still can't boot with the card installed and the BIOS set to use PEG as the main graphics, I am able to use the integrated with the card installed and it at least shows up in Windows. I do however get error 43. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I recently picked up an untested HD 7970 GHz Vapor-X 6GB from Sapphire off of Ebay which was being sold for parts or repair (seller claims it was working when they stopped using it, upgraded and left it sitting in an anti static bag until they sold it). Unfortunately, the card would not boot on either BIOS so I have since torn the card apart to clean it up. Upon doing so I discovered two things that may have been the cause of the issue. 1) There appears to be a plastic film still over the backplate on the inside of the card (between the back of the card and the backplate, not on the outside of the card). 2) One of the heatsinks on the card feels very loose compared to its mates. It is the dark grey heatsink directly below the top bottom most pink capacitor pairs (if you go from the bottom right memory chip it is the one directly to the right of it). Do you think either of these issues could be the reason that the card no longer works? When you plug in the card, the system can tell that there's a GPU plugged in as you can't use the integrated graphics with it in there, but it won't show up in device manager. I have tested it in two different systems with the same results. The fans and LEDs work just fine when the card is given power. If anyone has any tips before I try flashing the BIOS, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Edit: would help if I included the images: https://imgur.com/a/BFBqfRN

I recently picked up a couple of MSI H61M-P21 (B3) motherboards off of Ebay for a decent price. I was looking to throw an R9 270 into it with an i5 2300. Unfortunately, both an R9 270 and R7 370 both would not work on this motherboard. I tried with a GT 640 and an HD 7950 and both posted just fine. However, with the X70's in, the PC wouldn't even boot. I've tried updating the BIOS available on MSI's website with the newest available, but their download for this particular motherboard is broken (it only downloads the.exe for the BIOS install, but that's not enough to actually update the BIOS). Does anyone have an suggestions on how I can get this up to date?

I'm looking to sell the system. If it was for me I would have no problem doing that.

I originally bought a MasterBox Lite 5 since it was on sale and matched the color scheme for my build, however it is in fact an oven and is causing thermal throttling of the GPU. The build that I'm putting together is an FX 8320 w/ CoolerMaster MasterLiquid 240, an XFX R9 290 (980Mhz core out of the box), a Biostar TA970 v5.2 (red and black), and an EVGA 750 B2. I'm looking for a case with good enough airflow that will support this set up without throttling. I know the 290's run hot anyway, I don't care about temps as long as it doesn't throttle. I'm looking to spend around $35 dollars if possible. Any suggestions?

I picked up a not working motherboard/CPU/RAM combo (Intel DX58SO) and I've narrowed down the issues to the motherboard. The board powers on just fine, GPU fans spin up, CPU fan goes to max RPM, the HDD drive light turns on briefly when booting up the system, and the 24-pin power light turns on just fine. I've tried it running with and without RAM and the board won't post. I've tried the i7 940 that it came with (tested it on another X58 board and it works fine), a Xeon X5650 and a Xeon W3520, all to no avail. I've tried with different GPUs (R9 290, RX 560D 2GB, GTX 660 Ti) all to no avail. I've also tried clearing the CMOS and changing the CMOS battery which did nothing. Unfortunately, the board doesn't seem to have an onboard speaker and it doesn't have an LED debug readout, so I can't really use those for troubleshooting. Is there anything else that I should try to get this old board up and running?

I got an insane deal on an x99 motherboard (Asus Deluxe II) and a 6950X. I'm not planning on doing my next build until at least the next generation of GPU's come out, since my current system is more than adequate for my needs. I'm thinking of keeping it since what I've been seeing is that with the 6950X @ 4.3Ghz, the single core performance is equivalent to that of my 4790k @ 4.8 Ghz, so with 6 more cores it should last a long while never bottlenecking even if the game is only optimized for 4 cores. What do you guys think my best option would be?

Yes it does! I didn't even really think about that. It's quite possible the motherboard wasn't used for a long time before I got it, so I will definitely try that. Thanks for the tip! Edit: Bought new batteries and it works like a charm. thanks a lot syn2112!