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Sorry to Necro this thread, but here is an update. The motherboard was defective, RMA'ed. They sent another one. It was Defective. RMA'ed it too. Got a third one... Its missing its Integrated rear IO Shield. a 1608 Canadian ruble motherboard, with missing parts. I was about to install my CPU and NVMe Drives when I noticed it looked rather peculiar.

"ASRock provide 1 year warranty service to Authorized Distributor, users should refer to the retailer or original vender RMA & Refund policy." https://www.asrock.com/Support/index.asp?cat=RMA#:~:text=ASRock provide 1 year warranty,original vender RMA %26 Refund policy.&text=ASRock America will only provide,products purchased within North America. and Newegg has a 30 day return for the motherboard, and I bought it December 2019.

Good evening Linus Tech Tippers. I have a story here, and perhaps I have missed something. Let me know what you think. For reference, here are the specs. Motherboard: ASRock X570 Aqua #915 CPU: Ryzen 3950X RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Model F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC GPU: PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 5700 XT NVMe Drive: SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 250GB MZ-V7E250BW SSD's: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB SSD 1TB (3 of them) PSU: Corsair CP-9020139-NA HX1000 So, here goes the story. This PC was my pride and joy, my AMD dream build, and my first complete hard tube loop with no soft tube cheats. I took the greatest effort to build this without screwing anything up. Used mod mad, always wore the wrist strap, took all the proper precautions, and for 1 week, it was a thing of beauty. Then, it started to give me "Video Scheduler" errors and BSODs. At first I thought this was another classic example of AMD drivers being bovine excrement. Then I thought it was the PCI riser cable. I ended up draining the loop, switching out riser cables, and testing. No dice, then I got a different 5700xt from a friend, no difference, then I got rid of the riser cable, and plugged a non liquid cooled 5700xt into the slot, and still no dice, constant BSODs. Finally, a post made me change the PCI x16 link state from Gen 4 to Gen 3. Still BSODs, another post said to try Gen 2. Then, at long last, on a @#$% x570 chipset, boasting PCI Gen 4, It worked. at Gen 2. No difference if it was plugged into the board directly or if on a riser cable. no Gen 3, No gen 4. Only Gen 1 and 2. So I put it all back together and wrote it off to the HORRIFIC ASRock Bios and hoped they would push a BIOS update to fix it soon. (they haven't made an update since 2019) Then about 4 months ago, it started to randomly loose all the settings in BIOS and would revert back to default, despite no input from me. Restarting and turning it off started to become a bit of an exercise in frustration, so i kept it running 24/7. Unfortunately, I did a restart recently due to a Micro$oft update, and it would not post. (and toi clarify, thinking the OS updater was a problem, i have done several reformat and re-installations) The motherboard would get hung up on 07, A6 or Ab and 67 and won't finish it's cycle and won't let me boot into Bios or the OS. sometimes it would keep going through a cycle of error codes, endlessly repeating until I would power it off. Sometimes It would not display any codes. A friend let me take apart his desktop for a day to troubleshoot. I have swapped out the CPU, PSU, Video card, RAM, NVMe drive and followed every conceivable troubleshooting guide. all of my parts work absolutely flawless on his, I even for the heck of it, hooked up 4 different PCI riser cables, strung together and I was still getting Gen 3 speeds on his motherboard with no issues. (He has an ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero x570. I have determined it must be the motherboard. My 1608 Canadian motherboard. The flagship top of the line ASRock X570 Aqua motherboard. At this moment, it's a paperweight. Newegg has a 30 day return policy. ASRock states the Warranty is between the distributor and itself, not me the end user consumer. I am rather disgusted at ASRock. It feels like, oh, you were one of those stupid suckers who actually bought one of these? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA, thanks for the money sucker. I found posts on Reddit from X570 Aqua owners who seem to have the same problems. I am certain the board is defective. Today, I actually manged to get it to boot for the first time in a week. I ended up using the USB Bios Flashback Button on the back with Bios 1.70. Oddly, i restarted it and it went back to the exact same problem, seems I need to re flash the bios every time. So for now, it is on and running. if it gets turned off, I am going to rip out the motherboard and buy an ASUS or Gigabyte board. I asked for ASROCK to RMA it, but I am not hopeful. What are your thoughts?

I am not sure its the card anymore, or the PCI risers. I put POP OS linux on it, and it has been able to game and runs stable. I am now thinking its a case of shit AMD drivers.

CPU: 3950x GPU: 5700xt liquid devil Mobo: ASRock X570 Aqua #915 RAM: Trident Neo 3600mhz NVMe: Samsung 970 Evo 500gig SSD: 3 tforce RGB 1TB ssd's Pump: EK kinetic RGB D5 Radiators: 2 360x30mm and 1 420x30mm It's my very first hard tubing build. All blue acrylic tubing at 16mm od. I'm terrible at bends hence the 90 degree adapters.

I have been an AMD fanboy since the Athlon x64 days. But honestly, AMD get your shit together. The drivers for the 5700xt are shit. I'm having problems with my 5700xt too.

So, any suggestions on how to fix it? It's frustrating to have these expensive components but have such issues.

Greetings everyone. I am having great difficulty with my new build. I have a Liquid Devil 5700xt attached to an ASRock x570 Aqua via a riser cable. I have a reference 5700xt on my old build. For whatever reason in BIOS its fine, installing windows its fine, but as soon as I put on ANY version of the 5700xt drivers, i star getting pauses, black screens for a few seconds, poor audio with notable artifact, and eventually, usually within 5 min a BSOD referencing a "Video Scheduler Internal Error" This makes the new hyper expensive PC build unusable. Oddly, when I run GPUZ it shows the card running at PCI 1.1 x8 speed. so I thought maybe I had a bad riser cable. So I got 2 new ones. One thermaltake pci gen 3 x16 riser and a phanteks pci gen 3 riser. The original one is the phanteks vertical mount bracket that comes with a riser cable. Oddly, the thermaltake cable runs at PCI gen 1.1 x16 speed, but thats the only differance, and the crashes are a few seconds more apart, but they still happen. so then I went into bios and changed the PCI slot from Gen 4 to Gen 3. thinking that was part of the problem. No change. my reference card acts the same way when attached to the aqua. however has no issues on my old build and runs at PCI Gen 3 x16 speed just fine.

So, I ended up getting the failure to post error again, so long story short, it ended up that my power supply is dying and not providing sufficient power to the video card and it fails to post. new power supply solved everything.

I was tinkering with bio settings and I hanged the PCI slot state from 'auto" to Gen 3 and it seems better now. several restarts and no issues posting

also, I forgot to mention I have moved it to the other slots on the board and same issue.

Good day good people. I am mostly a lurker and do not post much, but this issue with my Vega 64 card has made me finally post. The issue is, when I first turn on the PC, the system doesn't post. it will display a bright white LED on the motherboard and usually Q code 94. According to the manual that is "PCI Bus Enumeration" The White LED means its a "VGA" Issue. according to the manual. If I hold down the power button to turn it off, and then turn the system back on again right away, it starts normally, posts, and has zero issues. I have replaced the vega card with one of my old GTX 970's, and no issues. I also tried a really old Radeon 7790, and that is fine too. The Vega is the better card to game on, so I have it back in, but I want to figure out what is causing this failure to post. Every once in a while, it turns on fine without having to force an unexpected reboot. Pertinent system hardware: Motherboard: Asus Crosshair Extreme VI MB Bios is at version 6201 CPU: Ryzen 1800x RAM: Trident Z RGB 3200 Video Card: Reference design XFX Vega 64 Video Card Bios: 016.001.001.000.008769 PSU Antec HCP Platinum 1300 watt. (Why the PSU overkill? its a legacy item, I used to use a Fx-9590 with cross fired R9 290x's in a custom loop... I needed the juice then) So, any ideas?

I would caution you with the following regarding tubing. PETG, which I use, does not play nice with many coolants. See the Linus Tech Tips post on the subject here: So, will mixing soft and hard tubing be an issue? Not really. Unless you are using PETG that reacts to your chosen coolant with otherwise plays nice with acrylic and soft tubing. As W-L said, no real benefit to multiple reservoirs. But depending on the implementation it can look cool. I am curious to what your build will look like.

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