daphatgrant

Hello, I cracked the front glass on my Note 8 and wouldn’t mind trying to salvage it. Any suggestions for places to send it to? I dont have any repair shops locally. Thanks

Update, it was the CPU, I got my replacement from AMD today and it appears to be working again. Something interesting however is that when I just went to grab the latest bios apparently Asus's bios revision history has changed. My original board came with 0702, I upgraded to 0803, then 1001 (ABBA) which came out on 9/12. I updated on 9/14 and it never worked again. Looking at Asus's page now there is a 0901 that came out on 9/20 and a 1001 that came out on 9/25. The 1001 version that I downloaded and updated to on 9/14 is gone off of that list. Weird. I'm starting to wonder if somehow that old 1001 bios somehow damaged the chip.

Quick update, I'm 99% sure it's the cpu, I tried it on another board and with a different PSU and GPU with the same results. I've RMA'd the cpu and am awaiting a replacement. I also found a user on Reddit with the same exact issue although with a different way of it originating.

Well a little update, I was 2 days past the Amazon return date. I decided to try calling them and ask if there was anything they'd be willing to do, expecting to be told no. To my surprise they offered to still replace it and I'll be getting the replacement tomorrow.

I did try different boot modes as well as a bunch of different drives. In the end I couldn't even get it to run an OS off a usb drive let alone get to a place where I could pick a drive to install from. It's a month old build so it's still pretty clean, lol, but that's never a bad thing to try. I am sending it back, I spent 8hrs trying to get it to work without any improvement. I'm kind of surprised how quickly the rma process went, I was expecting to have to go through a bunch of hoops but Asus was pretty quick about giving me an rma#.

Yeah I've tried other drives, they are recognized fine but I can't get an installer to run. I thought ubuntu on a usb stick might work but nope same reboot loop.

I've tried all 3 available bios versions since this started and it does the same reboot loop.

Hello all, I'm pretty sure my board has given up the ghost. I have an Asus Crosshair VIII Hero X570 board and it was running great until last night when I decided to upgrade to the latest bios. I did everything by the book, downloaded the new bios installed it with a usb drive, no issues. Everything seemed great, the upgrade was successful, I rebooted and it couldn't get back into Windows, just an endless loop of trying, then trying recovery and repeating. It never attempts to actually repair anything, just reboots.I've tried booting into linux on a usb drive, tried running the windows installer from a usb drive and it just doesn't want anything to do with it and reboots after a few seconds. I've pulled the drives and swapped ram sticks and unplugged everything other than the mouse and keyboard. Memtest runs fine however and I was able to run drive test/scans in the bios without any problems, my issues seem to start after the post screen goes away. It will try to load from a drive or usb stick but will just end up rebooting. I've also tried all the different bios versions with no change. I even broke out a cd drive to try Win 7 and got the same reboot cycle. I've cleared the cmos, set settings to default in the bios, looked through the boot menu settings and messed with that for a bit to no avail. Anything else I should try before RMAing this board?

Well I went 4x8, I like the way it looks better than 2x16 and was willing to gamble that it'd run. I picked up a 4x8gb Trident Z Neo cl16-16-16-36 b-die kit. I set xmp to profile 3(oc) and in windows cpu-z shows it running at 3600. I'm running memtest now and will run prime95 to see if it's stable. I'm 91% through the first memtest pass <fingers crosed>.

That's what I was thinking but I was hoping I could use the 2nd. I have a Corsair MP600 that I'd need to take the heatsink off to fit in slot A. If I leave the heatsink on I can't put the chipset fan grill back on. Slot B would allow me to just remove that small board heatsink but if slot A is going to give me better performance I'll suck it up.

Which M.2 slot am I supposed to use? Does it not matter? I'm not seeing a specification in the manual.

I fully understand the budget factor, my current build (2600K) has (4) 4GB sticks as it was cheaper than 2x8. On the AMD side I don't quite get why you are essentially penalized (potentially) for populating all 4 slots. I fully admit that I'm being a prima donna by wanting to populate all 4 slots for appearance.

Well... yeah... lol. 1. I am primarily looking at 4 sticks vs 2 for aesthetics. 2. I understand that if I were to populate all 4 dimms now future ram upgrades, if needed, would be more costly as I'd have to lose first to gain. 3. I don't like the idea of buying something if I know there's a chance that I may return it but being that Gskill is saying that that 4 stick Neo kit is Ryzen 3000 compatible I'm more likely to try it. 4. I honestly don't fully understand the inclusion of 4 ram slots if the best practice is to populate only two... I truly appreciate everyone's responses here, apparently I've been out of the build game a lot longer than I thought, lol.

Wow, these responses are fast! I'm fine staying with the stock 3600/16 as I don't plan on any significant OC'ing. That kit, according to Gskill is listed as being Ryzen 3000 compatible and is b-die. This may be a question for another thread but if populating all 4 ram slots isn't ideal then why not limit it to two?

Hey everyone! I bought almost everything today to finally upgrade from my old 2600K build, the only thing that I'm missing is ram. I've been looking and looking... and looking... and I keep changing my mind but I guess that's somewhat to be expected with a brand new cpu and chipset. But back to the original question, from what I've read it sounds like I could take a performance hit when getting 4 ram sticks over 2? I haven't settled on ram yet but I'd like to have 32GB of 3600-CL16. I've honestly been looking at getting 4 sticks over 2 for aesthetics. Here's the Asus supported ram listing (for Hero VIII) and a Trident Z Neo kit that I am considering. It says it has 4 dimm support for this kit but I honestly don't know what that translates to. I think I'm ok with a slight performance hit if I have to go 4 sticks I just don't want to cripple it. Thanks for the support!What I've bought so far:R9-3900XCrosshair VIII Herobunch of other stuff.