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Thank you guys for commenting. I thought that there was a chance that the card had a mining bios on it and flashed it. It worked perfectly fine afterwards! I did accidentally flash the 8gb version instead of the 4 gb even though I double checked Oops. I managed to fix this by disabling the gpu in device manager while in safe mode to boot to normal windows and reflash it with the proper VBIOS.

I think it was granting me admin powers, but refused to run in safe mode. I fixed this by disabling my GPU in device manager and restarting. This let me get to the normal windows boot and flash from there. Apparently I flashed the 8gb bios instead of the 4gb, even though I triple checked Thank you for the reply!

I tried flashing my VBIOS in an attempt to fix my graphics card, but something went wrong and I have to navigate a difficult display in safe mode. I bought it used and thought it may have had a mining BIOS on it. I should be able to fix this in safe mode, however it is very difficult to maneuver in Windows 10 with the bad VBIOS. Long story short, I need to run my flashing program as administrator to fix this. Is there a shortcut to run a program as administrator without using the right click menu? I have also tried ctrl+shift+click but that doesn't seem to have helped. I feel like there should be a way to do this using CMD too. Any help would be appreciated

My first post had originally said MSI because I clicked the link to AMD through their website and I mixed it up. I believe I've tried both of these versions, and 20.5.1 is the one I'm currently on I realized before you posted that this could be an issue. Although it said everything was up to date I checked for updates and had a couple of installs/restarts to do. I am now on 2004 with these issues still occurring. Thank you for the response

I'm building a PC for a friend and found a good deal on used rx480 (MSI Armor OC 4gb) off Ebay. I've never had problems with used parts before, and I feel pretty safe with it knowing that I should be able to send broken stuff back. When installing the GPU, however, frames are poor. In device manager there is an error over the GPU. It reads: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) I have tried many things to try to fix this, so I will give a list in order to simplify things. Installed latest driver (Both through windows and MSI) Reseat/Check cables Used DDU to uninstall old drives and install new. Tested on a new motherboard/CPU/RAM (I had recent BIOS issues so I thought this might help) Tried on a brand new SSD. Installed drivers through AMD's automatic installer (Detects your card and installs for you, opposed to finding the driver by searching the card) For this step I got an error through AMD. After installing I get AMD Error 1603. These are the possible issues it gives: Graphics driver and software conflicts False positives reported and blocked by antivirus software Missing critical and/or important Windows updates Corrupted Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable files Corrupted registry keys and/or system files Does anyone know how to help with this? I figured a fresh SSD would get rid of all of these issues. Edit: I've had some errors for C++ recently. I THINK I was using my 470, so this wouldn't have anything to do with the 480. I can't remember what I was doing but I was either installing or initializing something. Either way I would think that a fresh SSD would fix this. SOLVED: Look at my last comment

Big thanks.

If comparing the parts as if they were new, the Rog leaves behind the other one in the dust when it comes to gaming. The Ryzen CPU is probably better but the 1650 is so much faster than the 1050

I've had some similar situations recently. If this happens I try to screw one side down just enough for it to thread, and then work on the other side. This keeps things flat and can help the other screw thread sometimes for me. This might not fix your issue but most of my problems like this are solved by using this method.

Edit: You could probably up the CPU though. Personally I tend to put more into CPU than others but the programs I run are more CPU heavy than some games.

This. The 5700xt is the king of your GPU price range.

I managed to do this with a program called Minitool Partition Wizard. Since I did it on my system though they now require an expensive annual fee. There are other similar programs out there that will do the same thing but I never found a free one.

I'm currently trying to figure out what die my memory uses. I have G.Skill's Ripjaws V 3200MHz (F4-3000C15D-16GVKB). I would appreciate if someone were to just tell me, but it would be more helpful to know where to find this information (I will need to find this info for other RAM kits soon). I didn't see it listed anywhere on G.Skill's product page. Thanks for the help

I decided this was a good idea, and it ended up being only $2 more. I must have missed it looking through the first time. Thanks. When I first looked through them, a lot of them were sold out so I didn't see exact prices. The A Pro max looks like a good choice now that I've seen a "real" price. There is also a x470 gaming plus MAX rather cheap if I go down that route. While you're definitely right about this for the use of a 3400g, I wasn't sure how my original choice of the Gigabyte DS3H would hold up. I didn't specify this, but I was also looking for it to have nice overclocking capabilities for when he decides to upgrade to the 4000 series.

I was considering something like the Tomahawk MAX, but its just hard to fit it in the budget (He wants me to get him a PC with a wifi/bluetooth card, mouse, keyboard, and monitor for $600). This probably is the best one, but I might need to find one used. Thanks for the help!

If you decide to go Ryzen, I would wait until the 4000 series come out (Speculated Q3-4?). If you upgrade to Ryzen now it might not be worth the gains to pick up a 3800x./3900x That being said, however, upgrading from an already strong processor won't be cheap. I've pushed Intel under the rug lately, so I'm not sure what their best options are.