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So I just transferred my PC components to a new case and with a new aio liquid cooler. (Yay!) It's got RGB fans and everything, but there's one thing that still sticks out to me. There's this breathing orange light on my asus prime z270-p motherboard. It's been like this for years in my old case, but I was wondering what it signifies and how I can turn it off. I checked my motherboard manual and can't find anything that mentions it. One thing to note is that it stays breathing when the PC is off and only shuts down when either unplugged from the wall or the power switch is flipped on the power supply.

Hey All! IDK if this is the place to post this, but I would love some guidance on how I should proceed in getting a MOBO replacement. TL;DR - My Asus Tuf Gaming X570 PRO-Wifi has died yesterday and my warrenty expired back in October 2023. After reaching out to Asus, I have determine that my choices are to either send it in for repair (which they said could cost anywhere from $75-$200 depending on the hardware issue) or purchase a replacement (either new or used). I would Like some advice on If I should send my board in for repairs, or just say "screw it" and buy a different one. My current system core components are: AMD Ryzen 9 5900x Radeon RX 6900xt 64gb (2x32gb) of Crucial Ballistix 3600mhz cl16 RAM Samsung 980 Pro 1TB SSD (OS) Crucial P5 plus 4TB (games and projects) Corsair RMx1000 PSU The key features I want/need on my MOBO are: 2.5g Lan Onboard Wifi 6 or higher + bluetooth two M.2 slots (at least one being PCIe 4.0) USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C Front panel connector So far I have narrowed down my choices to the following MOBO under $200: New Boards w/ 3 Yr Warranties: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ($140) MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI ($160) Used Boards w/o Warranties: MSI MAG X570S Tomahawk Max WIFI ($175) ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING WIFI II ($200) I am leaning towards buying the Gigabyte board, as it does like 80% of what my old board did, comes with a new warranty, and it seems like the best bang for the buck. However, I am not opposed to sending my board for repair. I have a laptop and an Xbox Series X, so I'm not deviceless on the computing and gaming front, but I dont know if its worth it to potential spend the same amount of money to repair it as it would cost to just by a replacement. As for used options, I am hesitant. While they are high end MOBO's, and newer than my current one, I have heard a lot of horror stories in regards to used boards, and I don't necessarily what to be in a similar situation in a year or so (at that point, it might make more sense to just upgrade to the AM5 platform). So, what do you guys think I should do, should I go new, used, or repaired? I am also open to different options/perspectives if you have them! I dont REALLY want to change platforms rn, but if you have differnet MOBO suggestion, I am all ears!

hello, i am trying to flash my motherboard with the latest bios version using gigabyte q-flash. i installed every component of the pc, but the dram debug light was on. i tried every solution to that and found that a possible solution was to flash the bios. so i try to flash the bios, after clearing cmos using the jumpers and removing the battery. i also removed all components and re plugged motherboard and cpu power. after pressing the q-flash button, the cpu debug light turns on for around 1 second and then turns off. the motherboard manual says that a light will flash and should take around 6 minutes to flash. please help, thank you

So I've been on the fence about two motherboards from MSI, the MSI MAG z790 Tomahawk Wifi and the MSI Pro z790-a Wifi (priced the same where I can buy them) This is for a modded build with a specific theme and the motherboard needs to be white or close to white (aka I would have to mod the Tomahawk with a paint job) From what I've seen the Tomahawk will have more Io ports while the Pro will have certain newer things like wifi 7 and some of the ports are faster although fewer Although this is a showcase build I wanna make the best bang for the buck choices so my question is which one would I be better off with considering what they both offer and that one of them would require more work to make it fit in with everything

Budget (including currency): 1,30,000 INR Country: INDIA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Video editing(4k 10bit). Other details Intel® Core™ i9 processor 14900K MSI PRO B760M-P GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 RAM 32GB (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz CL36 Intel XMP Compatible Computer Memory – Black (CMK32GX5M2B6000C36) WD Black SN770 NVMe 1TB Main use case: 4k video editing (10 bit). Two things I am worried about: 1. Will this motherboard be a bottleneck. If yes, why? It would be helpful if you guys can suggest me a better budget friendly alternative. 2. Should I stick with 3060 or go for 4060? I am concerned about less VRAM in 4060 and also it comes with a lesser bandwidth than 3060.

I’ve been dealing with this ASUS motherboard for 2 weeks now trying to troubleshoot reason to why the XMP profile crashes Fortnite on DIMM slots 2 and 4. When I switch the DIMM to slots 1 and 3, XMP takes quite a while to Boot and post. I’ve tried contacting ASUS themselves I haven’t heard anything back yet. I bought the recommended RAM and all the parts are compatible. Please help you’re my only hope. specs~ i9-13900k Asus motherboard z790 A Wifi G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB series (Intel XMP 3.0) DDR5 RAM RTX 4070ti 1TB

As title states, I have a machine running Ubuntu Desktop (for now) that successfully booted. I tried to configure a 2 hardware RAID 1 arrays on 4 of the non-boot HDDs, and after applying the config in BIOS, I'm hanging on the BIOS logo screen for 20 mins with no change. This is the second time this has happened; previously this resulted in a total motherboard bricking. CPU: AMD 5600G; using the integrated graphics MB: MSI Pro B550-VC AM4 ATX Boot SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB HDDs: 2x 1TB WD Blue drives, 2x 4TB WD Red Drives (connected via Sata, all showed up in the BIOS) OS: Ubuntu Desktop (just to test the config; likely moving to debian) BIOS config: enabled RAID mode, restarted, cleared the drives, applied 2 RAID 1 arrays. This has me completely stumped. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you

Having the same experience this guy is having, but his problem was never resolved. PC Specs: Corsair Vengeance a4100 Gaming PC Motherboard (MB) - Asus Prime B450 Plus Current CPU - Ryzen 7 3700x What i'm trying to upgrade too - Ryzen 7 5800x3D (NOTE: When i do go through the whole process of updating the bios through USB, i get hit with "Selected file is Not a proper BIOS", yet i get the most recent BIOS from Asus's support page) I'm trying to get any help i can before i have to take it up to a PC place to have them do it for me. So any help is welcome willing to give it a shot. Thank you very much!

Good day LTT, I have an issue with the home server I am trying to DIY. The original motherboard for this build (which had successfully booted into Ubuntu) got bricked; not sure how. I swapped the entire build over to a new motherboard (MSI PRO PRO B550-VC AM4 AMD B550). I was able to get into BIOS, see all my hardware, but when I try to boot, I am stuck on the MSI Pro Series splash screen. I have the Ubuntu Boot USB plugged in ready to reinstall the OS, but no action is being taken. I can get into BIOS, the boot priority is set properly, and I disabled XMP as a test. No lights are on in the diagnostic LEDs. Any idea what else I can try? The rest of the build is an AMD Ryzen 5600G (using integrated graphics), 32GB of Corsair DDR4, a Samsung M.2 970 Evo that the old OS was installed on, and 4 HDDs (2 WD 1TB blue drives and 2 WD 4TB red drives)

Hello. So I'm adding new case for my PC my first gaming case something standard simple regular. Well I was stalling my fans which were very weird they had the power connector and then they had like a two pin thing that didn't connect with anything in my motherboard. The problem came when I was stalling my master cooler liquid cooling system not 240 mm radiator. I finished connecting everything turned on the PC without making my cable management noticed that I didn't place the fans the correct way so I had to make changes, disconnect everything and put everything back in and took me the whole day because after I connect everything back it wasn't turning on the screen or turning on properly. I believe I burnt everything because The Cooler Master AI old I purchased brings a little controller which I connect everything as the tutorials in YouTube but didn't change the left the LEDs for some reason. So my dumb head thought okay my motherboard has a LED header so I assume the Le header that is on the controller must be compatible with the one in my motherboard so I connected and all the sudden it smelled burnt. I tried to connect the motherboard again I try with another CPU I tried the same CPU with another motherboard vice versa I managed to have it turned on with my old motherboard and then when I try to build everything again with my old motherboard it didn't work anyways I'm not sure if it has to do with the power supply or anything because I tried my old motherboard with the same ram same graphics card same everything and it did work and then it didn't Motherboard: Tuf z390 plus wifi Ram: 16gb Powe supply: 500w GPU: rx570 Pls help. Things i tried. -Reset bios by Removing the CMOS battery -Clear CMOS jumper -Used a different RAM -Unplug and plugged everything over and over. -Tried without GPU since my cpu have intergrade graphics

I have my OS installed on a nvme m.2 , which was installed on the first slot of my mainboard z390 . After unplugging my PSU cable then plugging it back , i no longer can boot into Windows. Then while in Bios, i suddenly realized that my PC can't detect my nvme drives or other drives that I have ( HDD, SSD SATA ) However when I moved my m.2 nvme to the 2nd PCIE gen 3 x 4 slot, my PC suddenly recognized it , I can boot into Windows, other drives can be detected too . I tried installing my nvme back into the 1st slot but it's not detected as before. Can anyone help me determine this issue. Could it be that unplugging PSU cable damaged my m.2 slot somehow ? I have made sure to turn off the i/o switch on the PSU before unplugging . Windows 11 pro 23h2 all updated. MSI RTx 3090 suprim x Corsair vengeance rgb rs 32gb Aorus Master z390 bios f12 Corsair rmx 850 shift I9 9900k

Afternoon folks, I’m having some issues with my ~6 year old pc. I was performing a fresh install of Ubuntu, which this pc has handled before fine with all the same hardware as what’s in it now, but this time I was having trouble installing, with errors making reference to PCIe. Initially I tried removing all the ram, as I’ve had problems with faulty sticks before with this pc, but after testing different combinations, no progress was made. Then I took out my wifi card, and then the install went fine. Went to reinstall it after the os was installed, but the status led never lit up. Tried in different PCIe slots, no change. Went to local hardware shop and bought another cheap wifi card, assuming that my old one had just failed on me, but after installing that, no status light on that either, and not showing up on the os. Reset the CMOS, no change either. Also have unplugged and replugged all motherboard power connectors to the psu. Any other troubleshooting steps I could take? note: one thing I tried was changing the hdmi cable from my gpu to the motherboard to use the integrated graphics on my cpu. System wouldn’t post after this, gave 5 beeps from the pc speaker… this has worked before. Moved back to the gpu and it posts fine. mobo is Gigabyte Z370P-D3, if that helps

Budget (including currency): 420-ish EUR ex. OS licence Country: Netherlands Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Basic workstation (email, browsing, text processing). Little to no storage used (30GB or so for personal files) Other details The current system is an HP Slimline 260-A180ND (Intel J3060, 4GB, HDD) with W10, bought new for 330 EUR about 6 years ago (a scam IMO). Dear reader, TL;DR: I would like advice on the motherboard choice and opinions on the case(s), optional are verification of SSD for boot and PSU choice. Currently picking parts for a workstation build, for a senior (90+). The current PC is not usable anymore in terms of responsiveness and loading times. A clean install did not help. I have researched and selected medium to good low-budget parts to the best of my abilities, especially on the PSU and SSD front. I have offered to find a prebuilt or build this person a new system. I have looked at prebuilts / manufacturer systems such as Lenovo IdeaCentre 3 07IAB7 i5-12400, HP Pavilion TP01-2055nd AMD Ryzen 5-5600G and Lenovo IdeaCentre 5 i5-12400, all between 500 and 550 EUR. They're probably not bad, but I can't do any servicing other than the RAM, if there ever is a problem (see disassembly videos). I am the person they call for tech support. Plus, I'd rather assemble a system with parts I know are of somewhat decent quality, as well as industry standard interfaces and form factors. I don't want to risk the lower tier systems (300-400 EUR). I keep some future-proofing in mind (larger/better than necessary PSU, SSD, CPU) for both ease of mind reasons, as well as the fact that I might buy/recieve this system in a few years if they don't need/can't use a PC anymore. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LGHWwg Current selection (give or take a few EUR per item): CPU: AMD 5600G (130 EUR) CPU Cooler: stock (wraith stealth) Motherboard: A520M or B450, no model selected yet (65-ish EUR) Memory: Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200 C16 CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 (45 EUR) Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 500GB NVMe (58 EUR), or anything with DRAM and pref. no QLC Video Card: iGPU Case: Sharkoon VS9 (45 EUR) Power Supply: pref. Corsair CX550 CP-9020277-EU (60 EUR); alt: Cooler Master MWE White 450/550W 230V V2 (60EUR, same price) (yes it's overkill, but not many >C tier 350W and 450W available + no massive price difference) OS: Most likely W10 to avoid change of environment, probably without license to save 110-ish EUR. Connectivity: USB mouse, USB keyboard, USB printer. Extra I/O on top is desired (for USB sticks etc.). CD drive not needed, but optional. Panel is VGA now, but supports DVI and HDMI. Total: 400-ish EUR 1. Motherboard: mainly picked A520M for the price, as the user needs no real features of B450/550. I can't really find any in-depth reviews or comparison tests for the A520M boards. Some B450M boards are around the same price, but I've read that you may be better off with the A520M in terms of up-to-dateness and quality (low end B450 vs low-mid A520M for that price range). Selection: MSI A520M-A PRO (63 EUR) Gigabyte A520M H 1.0 and Gigabyte A520M K V2 (65 EUR) Asrock A520M-HDV (60 EUR) MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX (67 EUR) (4 DIMM slots) (new BIOS compatible with 5600G) Asrock B450M-HDV R4.0 (60 EUR) (new BIOS compatible with 5600G) 2. Storage: I've searched for a TLC SSD with DRAM, as it will be the boot and only drive in the system. Any other suggestions, or is this one OK for the system's purposes? 3. Cases: Not many options. I selected the following, but chose the Sharkoon for now for its fans, neutral styling, ventinaltion, no glass and I/O location. Aerocool Hexform Mini Tower Micro ATX (for the extra fans and open ventilation style), was 50 EUR but jumped up to 70 EUR. Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L (least desirable, I/O on the side) DeepCool MATREXX 30 Mini Tower Micro ATX (only 1 fan, but CD bay) Sharkoon VS9 (for extra fans and no glass, a big plus; downside is its quite large) Would love to hear your input on the motherboard choice, verification of PSU and SSD for boot and opinions on the case(s). Thank you in advance. Kind regards, JB

So I've when I built this PC it worked for an entire year without any issues: i7-10700k 2x16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16 MSI Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi RTX 2060 One day the RAM suddenly broke, both sticks. Randomly had bluescreens, pc crashed, memtest86 failed (individually for each stick too), etc.. I tried my broken RAM sticks in my friends pc and he instantly had bluescreens, crashes and all the issues too. I tried his RAM in my PC and it worked fine. He has 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX LP DDR4-3200. So i refunded the RAM and got brandnew 32GB Trident Z's. They instantly broke again. Same testing as before, doesnt work in friends pc either once again. I figured it has to be a mainboard issue then, so i replaced my MSI Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi with a MSI Z590 Gaming Edge Wifi. I refunded the RAM once again, got new ones and they broke once again. Now i replaced the PSU from a 600 Watt beQuiet with a 850 Watt beQuiet, refunded the RAM once again and it broke again. Im bought the same RAM my friend has for now, since they seem to work in my PC for whatever reason. I have no clue what could be the issue at this point but i want to have 32 GB of RAM back. Do you think I can get 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance without them breaking? I hope someone can help me.

Hi all, After 2 years of non problematic running of my build i decided update my BIOS on my Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570 motherboard. I went straight from F32 to F38h. (I know, I know. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it but here we are.) Initially I went through the bios to do this update and as soon as I restarted all fans ramped up, no display and no power to any of my USB devices. After this setback I tried to use the Q-flash to see if that was the error and unfortunately same outcome, all fans ramping up and no outputs at all. I have tried every BIOS from F32-F38h through Q-flash and no luck, just sometimes the fans don’t ramp up (specially on F32 & F35). Anyone have any ideas on the fix for this and many thanks in advance! Setup: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5600X GPU - EVGA 2080ti Black edition RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) 3600mhz DDR4 MOBO - Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570

Hi, im building a new pc only for gaming and the motherboard that i buy came with an extra 6-pin connector labelled " pd_12v_pwr " , is right on the side of the big 24-pin connector. According to the manual it says that provides additional power to the front panel but also to the PCIe x16 slots the build: cpu : 7800x3d mother: Asus ProArt B650-CREATOR User’s Manual ram: 64gb 2x32 6400 mhz gpu: single Rtx 3090 Asus rog psu: Seasonic 1000w gold (SSR-1000FX) https://seasonic.com/focus-plus-gold#specification ssd: 2tb m2 nvme gen4 ¿Can it be left unplugged or is there any risk to damage something like the gpu?

Hi guys, im looking to pick up a budget server mobo and corresponding CPU, it doesn't need to be anything flash but does require the following: -ECC Ram support -a minimum of 2X8 pcie lanes (16x 2 slots with minimum 8 lanes each) for SAS and SFP+ cards NVME m.2 slot In my local market I have found this: ASRock C236M WS Micro ATX https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C236M WS#Specifications

I built a PC for the first time last week. It's all up and running, and it works, to my relief. But something I've noticed is that when I turn my PC on, the motherboard's VGA LED light and the DRAM LED light blink red. I've done a quick google on this and it seems it's to do with a faulty/dead GPU (VGA), and improperly seated/faulty RAM (DRAM). The thing is, I get an excellent display with good graphics and the RAM is detected with no problem. Another conclusion is, I could have not plugged in certain cables right, as I was extremely cautious and didn't put much force into it, fearing I could break something if I did. If anyone has any solutions to this, or things I could try to fix it, I don't even know if I have to because the PC is working fine.

Hello everyone, I recently built my desktop and everything was working fine. Or at least I thought so. While browsing the internet, everything is fine, playing games is a nightmare. My ping up to 500 for like a few seconds every 10 seconds. You can find attached the picture of ping meter. I tried updating the drivers, disconnecting the antenna and plug it back in, updating bios, nothing works. Plugged to a usb tether or ethernet, everything works perfectly fine. Both my laptop and phone that sits in the same room don't have this issue. Trying to identify the issue I even set up my phone as a hotspot next to the antenna and I got the same result. Any ideas why this is a problem is welcome. Otherwise, I guess I will have to send it back. EDIT v1: Amazon refunded the motherboard while I got to keep it.

So i am upgrading my rig, it was a gaming prebuild bought in the top of gpu shortage so i got a 9400kf and a 2060Super, for around 1500$, Anyways now i switched to a AMD Radeon RX 450 cuse im running a heckintosh (Apple fanboy) and i am a programer on mobile apps, websites and a bit of AI, So as i downgraded my GPU just for display output i now have a pritty bad computer, And as LGA1511 is a dead platform i am going with an 13900k and 32gig of ddr5 RAM. Now i am cheeping out a little and buing everything used, so for motherboard i decidet to go with B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI And i am wondering if anybody knows if this is a good motherboard and what i should get for what i need: -DDR5 -LGA1700 -2 M.2 slots -2.5gig network -And good onboard audio for my little saround sound So is my choise good or is there a batter way

Hello everyone Few days ago i just got an aio. When i installed aio my pc turned on i opened up hw info and benchmarked my pc using cpu z benchmark Temps seemed normal hottest core hit around 50C° then i shut down the benchmark and took of for work when i came back i have seen temps were aroud the same but my pc was freezing like crazy then i tried to restart the pc and it got stuck at the screen for entering bios then shut down since then it doesn't get started i have an msi motherboard and cpu ezdebug led is staying on as white Which component do you guys think i have fried (I dont have any way to test which i broke) Thanks in advance have a wonderful day.

Hello, I face a problem when i use my atx corsair psu in oem dell optiplex 390 motherboard, i plugged the 24 atx connector and the 4 pin for cpu ( actually i have 8 pins but i split it in two) the light orange show up but when i turn on pc, there's no signs of anything, cpu fans doesn't turn at all, i tried many times but no result, however when i use an old matx hp psu 300w it work fine, pc turns on, so you will said that the problem is from psu but it isn't, i try this corsair with other pc and it works fine, so that's true there are psu which are no compatible with some motherboard?!

so im planning to put about 5/6 more argb peripherals in my pc a led bar, rgb fans , ssd cover, argb gpu cable, argb gpu holder and i wonder how many of them can i link up to just one chain link of fans or do i have to plug it in straight to the mobo? so it doesnt take too much power from only one argb 3 pin. im quite new to pc's so i dont really know alot about em

My CPU and dram light are solid red I've tried reseating the CPU getting new RAM getting a new CPU getting a new motherboard getting a new PSU checking wires unplugging and replugging wires and nothing I've done has fixed it https://pcpartpicker.com/user/scoob984/saved/qVZRFT

I'm trying to build an entry-level PC for 1080p gaming, I plan to use: AM4 Ryzen 5600 RX 6600 / RX 7600 1x SSD 2x 8GB RAM I'm aware that the price difference between A520 and B550 MOBOs is very small, but I still wonder which one does above build actually needs.