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That sounds very annoying. I guess i'm lucky that i had to take my GPU out a couple of times to reach my CMOS battery when i tried to fix it.

So here's the story. I was moving my GPU up a slot since i was taking out my WiFi card and i had space to put it in, and it would give it better airflow. I turned it on and everything worked fine, and my temps went down by a little too. So i decided to push my luck. I updated my BIOS over the internet. After it updated, everything looked fine. So i turned on XMP and virtualisation, and my computer wouldn't boot to the ASUS logo. I opened up my PC, took out my GPU and re-inserted my CMOS battery to clear my CMOS. Everything worked fine again, until i tried to change any settings. I went to the ASUS Website and downloaded the latest BIOS for my B150M-C from here. But noticed something kinda fishy. When I clicked "see all downloads" i noticed that all of the other BIOS releases have some release notes, even if they're quick ones like "Improve system capability and stability", but the latest version didn't. I still thought something might have happened when I downloaded my BIOS over the internet, and decided to retry the latest BIOS version by flashing it onto my USB stick. I installed the latest BIOS version and it looked like everything worked fine, but i still couldn't enable XMP or Virtualisation. I downloaded the previous version of the bios and I could enable these settings. I think it's a pretty large co-incidence how there were no release notes and the latest version of the BIOS is broken, at the point where it feel kind of sketchy. I looked around other BIOS versions for the B150M-A and the B150M-K and i couldn't find any BIOS versions without any release notes. So here's what I think: ASUS made a very careless mistake and made it possible to easily softbrick your system with a bad BIOS, and didn't add any release notes. ASUS intentionally broke the BIOS version. It's a very budget motherboard for budget skylake CPUs and may be in a lot of pre-builts. In the manual it talks about a disk about "Antivirus software (OEM Version)". People who aren't to great with computers might update their BIOS and change settings in their BIOS based on google searches. They find out that they accidentally soft-bricked their system and might not know that they can clear their CMOS. This is more likely with a board like this as it's nowhere near enthusiast level and is very cheap, meaning people who don't know much about computers are more likely to get a budget pre-built with a mobo like this, or have a friend build it etc. They might think that their computer is broken, meaning that they might get a new one and asus gets more money for people getting their parts? Number 2 is highly unlikely but considering how sketchy this feels it just might be true. Or maybe i'm just very paranoid. I'm curious to see what you think.

the second hand market could probably give you better value. You could maybe find a 1660S or even an rtx 2060.

See for yourself: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR3.TRC1.A0.H0.Xradeon+r9+390.TRS0&_nkw=radeon+r9+390&_sacat=0

i’ve checked, can’t seem to find anything

Asus B150M-C, its an old budget build

This is a stupid question, but i want my rgb on my mouse to work while my computer is shut down. Is there an option to enable it, and does it vary from board to board?

Thanks, you're still helping people 3 years on!

i'm sure minesweeper would make the GPU lag badly.

i don't think it would dissappear, but it might get a bit better over time.

True, but if i'm working on a graphics card i'd at least touch my power supply every now and again just in case

try using 1x everything, but if you don't want to you could try optifine

did you have an ESD wrist strap, or touch something grounded beforehand?