silverwolf0

Just put together my first build in years. Of course it doesn't go as planned. Boot loops every 30 seconds. Sounds like a jet engine with the corsair maglev fans at 100%. No video signal. No beeps. I've read the no POST sticky and have already gone through all steps with no success. ASRock B450M pro4 microatx Ryzen 2600 2x8gb 3000mhz ram Rtx 2080 Seasonic 650w platinum So I've tried removing everything and "breadboarding" it but still the same. With only cpu, hsf, 8 pin cpu power, and 24pin mobo power it bootloops. If I remove the 8pin cpu power it actually stops bootlooping, but it still sits there with no video signal and 100% fans. Tried rtx 2080 as well as a loaner graphics card on either of my two pcie sockets. No video. RAM one stick two stick any slot no dice. Clear cmos pulling battery no dice. I suspect it's a bad motherboard. Don't know what else to think. Several other people on the internet seem to have similar problems with asrock boards. http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=8545&title=no-post-and-boot-loop-with-asrock-ab350m-pro4

Also bought and returned it due to defects in build quality. I have a few videos on YouTube. Speakers were really bad, screen had average color and contrast. Loud fans and thermal throttling. I had the yoga 710 previously as well and was not impressed by the fit and finish.

I have a backup PC I want to game with occasionally and has a rather old build with an intel core 2 quad q8400 and 4gb of ram. What is the best video card I can put into it without too much of a cpu bottleneck?

I just got this aukey usb-c hub with four usb ports and an hdmi at the end. I plug it into my laptop, then I plug in the hdmi from my tv, which can only support limited RGB, and the colors get crushed because it is displaying full RGB instead of limited RGB. Normally if I had plugged in the HDMI directly to the HDMI port on my laptop instead of the usb-c hub, I would go into the intel HD graphics options and change the "quantization" range to limited, which would fix this issue, but those options have completely disappeared. Are there any workarounds or hacks to change it to limited RGB?