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yeah the paste is fine i had already checked that

im not sure. I think i clicked some auto overclock setting in the bios (when i was overclocking my ram) because i didnt think much of it but i really dont remember.

Recently, i've noticed my cpu cooler isnt doing good enough for whatever reason. And I started to wonder: is it the heatsink or the fan? which one should i replace? or should i just get an AIO pump? or a new cooler altogether? Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X120 Refined SE cpu: 5700x

nevermind i have no idea what that was. i somehow enabled docp, i will try to delete this post if i find out how.

I know this probably sounds weird, but i’ve been apparently using my ram at 2400mhz, when it was labeled 3200mhz. i’m assuming this is just the base, non overclocked version. cool, so i go to check how high i can put it… the package said 3200mhz, but… it goes higher in the options??? i have genuinely no idea which one i should choose. what happens if i choose a higher one?

yea that’s the b550 layout, i looked everywhere but no rgb header. oh well.

ok i get the rest but where do you see the rgb header am i going crazy

so i bought a case on amazon for my new build… it came with a fan hub. i plugged in a sata, into the hub, and it works fine. however, there are two other wires: a pwm wire and an rgb wire. i don’t have an rgb header on my motherboard even though they said i did, and i don’t know if i should have both the pwm cable and the sata cable plugged in. motherboard: A520m - PRO (msi)

alright thanks

so id be fine if it just doesn’t boot, i would just have to get an older cpu? nothing damaged right?

yes i did check the website, it says it’s compatible but also depending on the bios ver, which is why i just want to test this

what would happen if i put a cpu in my new motherboard that i’m not sure has the correct bios? the motherboard does not have flashback or anything, so i just want to check if it works before i return the cpu, but i’m not sure if trying will damage my components.

yes it has windows 10 but my os is windows 11 right now. it also booted in legacy before, not uefi like the SSD, idk if that changes anything

So I have a single SSD in my computer right now, it has windows and all of my normal files and some games. If I added and plugged in my old hard drive, would it just show up like a usb drive does (but as like D: drive) , or would it reformat/erase the data? or what would happen? I dont know if it changes anything that the hard drive had windows on it already previously, or that its really old, but it still works on my old pc.

recently, i had downloaded windows onto my new computer which i had built; and to download it i had installed windows from a usb drive. anyways, i’m too scared i’d screw something up to plug it in again because i’m not sure if it would make me redownload windows and lose everything. i wanted to build a new pc for my gf, and was wondering if the windows media creation tool stayed on the usb or if the usb had already been wiped, leaving me to download it again so i can download it onto her pc.

sorry forgot to say that the initial problem was solved, your advices worked. installed windows and it worked. aside from that, i’m probably just gonna have to buy a new cpu cooler there’s plenty of thermal paste (not too much not too little) and the heat pipes are connected correctly to the paste and cpu

alright i’ll try that. and weird question, is there any reason my cpu is at 75 in the bios? is that normal or should i redo the fan lol

oh, so what would i have to do? get a usb and reinstall windows? not sure what a fresh install means also my bios refuses to show at all anymore, not sure what i did.

yea it has 3 others. i plugged the hard drive one into a different one, and now the bios won’t even show at all???

a xeon 3550, it was an old workstation but it worked. not sure if switching cpus / motherboards did anything bad.

yea i replugged them and even changed the sata cables

i recently built a new computer, and i was thinking i could just use the same three drives i used for my old one, which worked perfectly fine. well apparently, the bios is only detecting them but i can’t use them to boot or anything. specs Ryzen 7 5700x gtx 1650 super 600w evga psu Asus prime b550 plus motherboard teamgroup 16gb (2x8) ram and the storages, one of them being a hard drive that came with the pc, i have no idea but i’ll provide pictures of them below. also my cpu temp has been stuck at 75 in the bios, not sure if that means i have a bad fan or need to do something about it.

if i download windows on the 500gb ssd, will i still be able to use the stuff on my hard drive?

i don't understand... could you put it in simpler terms pls?

Ok so i know this may sound weird, but, i have a hard drive with nearly 1TB of storage on it, and more recently i have added an SSD with 500gb. i am currently wondering if there is any possible way to use the SSD as boot drive without moving my entire hard drive contents to the ssd, since it will not fit.