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I thought it was the graphics card too but when I plugged it into my machine it booted up with no issues. Whereas the coworkers machine couldn't boot even with another working card. I've also been very careful about making sure the 12pin power connector doesn't get bent too hard, grab it by the plastic connector when plugging/unplugging, and to visually inspect if it's seated all the way even after hearing a 'click'. Also, one thing I forgot to mention, the sticks are installed correctly in slots B2 and A2 (what the MB manual recommends). We have also tried re-seating them with no luck. Might try running on one stick or switch ours around and see if that gives us any clues what's going on.

I've built 2 identical PC's for work that have had similar errors. Ryzen 7700x Asus TUF B650 Plus Wifi G.Skill Flare X5 32 (2x16) AMD EXPO 6000MTs Samsung 980 Pro 1TB MSI 4070ti Gaming X Trio Corsair RM1000X (2021) Gold Windows 11 First machine was built 3 months ago for myself. All drivers were installed and up to date, updated BIOS to main stability update, enabled AMD EXPO profile for the RAM, updated windows, etc. This machine would lock up and blue screen about 2-3 times a week. Dug through the minidump logs and it all seemed to point towards a RAM instability. I think I had heard Ryzen 7000 series had an issue with boosting MHz beyond their stable limit so I installed Ryzen Master to run in ECO mode. Still was getting BSOD's so I tried disabling the EXPO profile to run the RAM at base 4800MTs. It's been about 2 months since and have had no issues with instability, lockups, or BSOD's since. Second machine was built 2 weeks ago for coworker. Same exact parts. Went through the same setup, installed Ryzen Master to run the CPU in ECO, but didn't enable EXPO this time. Machine ran fine for a few days before it started freezing every time on the windows login from booting up. Found we could get lucky and login 1/5 times. Seemed that if we could type the password in quick enough it wouldn't freeze. If left on the login screen for a few seconds it would inevitably freeze. After trying a few tips from a quick online search (with no success) I thought I could try enabling the EXPO profile on the RAM. First boot up, no problems. Sat on the login screen for a few minutes to make sure. Logged in and restarted about 5 times to see if that solved to issue. Never froze up. A few days after it froze on startup again. Then it started to blue screen multiple times. This time the minidump files were saying it was a GPU driver error. Went to go update the drivers but the machine wouldn't boot this time. Asus board was displaying VGA error (white led). Restarted multiple times and could never get it to post. Thought the card died and needed to be RMA'ed. Started a long process of elimination to identify the problem. I'll put it in a list so it doesn't get too long winded: Plugged 4070ti into bottom PCIe slot, no change (same error led) when tried booting swapped out 4070ti for a confirmed working 1070, top and bottom slot, no change plugged 4070ti from 2nd machine into 1st machine. 1st machine booted with no problems updated that 4070ti's drivers with clean installation. Plugged the now updated 4070ti back into 2nd machine, no change Unplugged SSD, no change Removed and put back the CMOS battery, system tried rebooting a 2nd time on its own, still got stuck on VGA error, but started displaying a white (VGA) and green (boot) led after 10 seconds of just the white led This could've happened on an earlier boot, the green led is hard to see next to the white Reinstalled the SSD, stuck on white and green led. Installed an older stable version of BIOS (board has BIOS flashback button), stuck on white and green led Installed another stable version of BIOS, finally posted The system is back up for now, but will still occasionally freeze on startup. My gut reaction is this RAM is causing all the instability, though there are so many reviews praising that kit, it gives me pause. My second hunch is these ASUS MB's are terrible and causing the instability. I've had great systems with the older TUF boards on AMD and Intel which makes me bias to think it's the RAM. I'm thinking of sending the RAM back and getting a different kit. Might do the same for the MB. Unless it's possible to tinker with BIOS settings and get things working better together. Would love to hear anyone's thoughts here.

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I've never heard of that tool. Do you have a link to it/any tutorials you recommend? I've tried that and the windows installer doesn't recognize a drive to install windows onto. Can't get past that screen

That's what I've been doing between each setting change

I've mostly messed around with secure boot, CSM, and the other boot options (fast boot, PXE OpROM) enabling, restarting, disabling, restarting, for each option I think might work as well as combinations of them all.

I recently updated windows (normal update, nothing like going from windows 7 to 10 or anything) and something happened and the screen went black after booting up a few times, and then it booted in bios and doesn't recognize the boot drive. It didn't loose power or anything while updating. I've updated the bios, looked at all sorts of tutorials and manuals. All the settings I've tried changing don't amount to any progress. I'm hoping it's just a bios setting and nothing serious like the drive failed or the motherboard got messed up. I'll probably take it into a PC repair shop and have them run their diagnostics if I still can't get it to boot by the end of today. The notebook is an Asus UX360U

Not sure if this is the right solution, but I enabled csm and it booted right up after saving the bios settings. ?? I'll keep checking back though cause I'm not too familiar with getting these settings right

Struggling to find the settings to change that. Any idea where that is?

I've got an Asus x570 tuf wifi Mobo with a R7 3700x. I just tried updating my bios to 1405. Everything went fine updating but now I'm stuck in bios. My two drives (500GB Samsung SSD boot drive and 5TB HDD) are recognized and show up in AHCI but won't show up in my boot settings. When I go to boot settings I also get an error saying "the system cannot find any bootable devices." I can still get in and see all my folders inside my drives, I just don't understand why it doesn't recognize my drives as bootable

I should clarify, we're all mostly college students so I really shouldn't use the word family. The 4 families are 2 newly married couples, one family with 2 small kids, and one single mom with one small kid. So it's really 7 adults and not 4 typical size families. But I agree, that's too much for one access point. These apartments are pretty old and the internet only comes in at that one access point. Would it work to run a separate router out of the modem to each apartment or have one router for two apartments? Would you have to get a specific modem to handle extra routers? I think the modem he has right now is rated for 10 gigabits I'm also not sure how much my uncle(landlord) is willing to invest in extra access points because he might be selling soon. But I can still talk to him. There is an old coaxial cable under our air conditioning but I don't think it goes to anything working now.

So, I've got a relatively harmless problem. Short story is: Our apartment's WiFi is shared by 4 apartments and it gets really slow sometimes and loses connection constantly. The router and modem are very high end and I suspect our neighbors with 5 Google devices are causing problems. Long story is: About a year ago my wife and I moved into these apartments her uncle owns. It's 4 apartments stacked 2x2 and we live in the top right. Our neighbors in the bottom left are the ones with the WiFi modem and router and the WiFi comes in in the very bottom left of their apartment, basically the furthest away from our apartment. The modem and router are both very high end and hypothetically should have no problem handling 4 small families at a time, however... Randomly through the day, wether it's while watching videos, scrolling social media, or working on homework, our devices will have a hard time communicating with the router for a few minutes. Not to mention loading times are terribly slow at full to 80% signal strength constantly. I've had to diagnose internet problems for the apartments multiple times, a few have been on the ISP side, but through it all my uncle gave me the login credentials to the router so I can better diagnose problems in the future. Our neighbors that have the router and modem in their apartment are not there most tech savvy. But they do have 5 Google devices. One Google home mini in every room and a TV (I can see them all in the Google Home app). On my Android phone I constantly get notifications about their speakers playing, casting, etc. I constantly hear a little devil on my shoulder telling me to turn them off when I see the notifications. My intuition says the constant upload and download the 5 Google devices produce are what's slowing down our router. I would have no problem approaching them about decreasing their Google home usage, but I'm not sure if they really are the culprit. I'm thinking of asking my uncle to run Ethernet cables to put the router closer to center of this problem persists, but I'm not sure if that would help either. I don't know if there's anything more I can do in our router settings. I've switched to the most open channels on 2.5 and 5 GHz and have reserved the Mac addresses for important devices. Let me know of any suggestions.

I recently just built my first desktop and I'm super pleased with how it performs. 3700x, Asus Tuf x570, 2x8 G.Skill 3600mhz, and a 2070super. When I first boot up my system I only messed with the ram speeds and the FCLK so that they run in a 2:1 ratio. Other than that I haven't really messed with my bios settings a whole lot. If anyone has a similar setup I'm curious what configuration you recommend setting up in the bios. Mostly I'm just curious on fine tuning my system.

Hmmm, that's good to know. I do plan on getting AMD's boot-kit if I do need to manually update the bios, but doing it in steps is kinda annoying. Do you recommend x470 over b450? As far I thought the biggest difference is sli support which I don't plan on doing

I could see myself getting a lower end x570 as long as it's not above $200ish USD. But I did see immediately after I posted that the x470 Gaming Pro Carbon is down to $149.99 which is super tempting