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Johnatron 101
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So, recently I bought a Gigabyte Z370M D3H Motherboard which I got for only £13 on eBay. When I bought the board it had a few things wrong with it such as the CPU socket brace backplate being missing, and there being a few bent pins in the CPU socket. I have managed to fix all of these issues and there are no longer any bent pins left and I managed to salvage a backplate from a dead H61 board. Now, I first tested the board with my i5 9600k which unsurprisingly didn't work as I wasn'texpecting this board to have 9th gen BIOS support, so I went out and bought an i5 8500T which in theory should be supported as it's an 8th gen chip. When I went to attempt to boot into the boards BIOS I was greeted with an error code that had 5 long ish beeps, immediately after the last beep the system would then power cycle. I checked the Gigabyte website and apparently, the i5 8500T needs BIOS version F5 to work and apparently the first BIOS release was F2.

 

I suspect that this could be the issue but I'm still not 100% sure due to the motherboard being a bit of an unknown quantity. Could there be any other causes for this fault? Thanks!

 

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5 beeps points to CPU.

I assume you never see anything on the screen either.

Sounds like you are in need of CPU supported at the older bios revision in order to flash the bios to the newer version so you can then install the newer CPU.

 

Daily driver (looking to upgrade mobo and cpu spring of 2021)   --- The only time I sort by price from high to low is when I am shopping for CPU's and GPU's (looking for a cheap i7-7700k though)
Mobo: ASRock Z170 Extreme7+  CPU: i7-6700K @ 4.6MHz OC  Cooling: Corsair H115i Hydro  Memory: TridentZ 32GB @ 3600MHz  GPU: EVGA 2070 FTW3 ULTRA+ (OC'd 50/300)  
PSU: Corsair HX850i   Storage: 980 Pro 1TB, 950 PRO 512Mb, (2)ADATA SU800 1TB  Keyboard: Logitech G910  Mouse: Logitech G502   Headset: Logitech G930 UPS: APC Pro 1500 S

Unraid box providing network routing, home automation services, and media services ( I love unraid!)

USB Key: SanDisk 16GB Ultra Fit  Mobo: Intel DX79SR Extreme+  CPU: i7-3820  Memory: 16Gb Kingston HyperX Predator  Storage: (cache)480gb Micron SSD (1)8TB HDD (1) 4TB HDD  
GPU: MSI GTX 1650 4GT LP OC (passed through to Emby)  NIC: Intel I350-T4 4-port Gb (passed through to PFSense)  UPS: APC PRO 1000
Docker Containers: Emby and Home-Assistant-Core  Virtual machines: PFsense ( I love PFSense!)

Family machines
Mobo: Asus Prime H310M-E  CPU: Intel Core i3-9100F  Cooling: Deepcool Gammaxx 400  Memory: Teamgroup Elite Plus DDR4 16GB  Storage: Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2  
GPU: Asus GTX 1660 Super 6GB or EVGA 1070 FTW 8GB  PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+  UPS: APC XS 1300


As well as a number of other machines, a ton of parts, miles of cables, and who knows what else!
Private message me for quicker assistance. I also build and ship custom machines at a really fair price.

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1 minute ago, cr8tor said:

5 beeps points to CPU.

I assume you never see anything on the screen either.

Sounds like you are in need of CPU supported at the older bios revision in order to flash the bios to the newer version so you can then install the newer CPU.

 

Never saw anything on the screen, I'll probably return the 8500T in favour of an 8400 as there is pretty much no performance difference between the two, I will also check the production year of the board in order to make sure that this is the right move as Gigabyte probably changed the BIOS on the boards after a certain period of time. Thanks!

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4 minutes ago, Johnatron 101 said:

I will also check the production year of the board

This is a good idea, but i have seen brand new name brand boards ship with a bios that is older than the mobo.

Just because there is a bios update, does not mean that factory was using it. And if its not a high turnover part, it very well may sit in a warehouse for a year before actually being sold to a retailer who then sells it to you.

I've seen it multiple times also so you cant be certain 100% based of when it was manufactured.

Daily driver (looking to upgrade mobo and cpu spring of 2021)   --- The only time I sort by price from high to low is when I am shopping for CPU's and GPU's (looking for a cheap i7-7700k though)
Mobo: ASRock Z170 Extreme7+  CPU: i7-6700K @ 4.6MHz OC  Cooling: Corsair H115i Hydro  Memory: TridentZ 32GB @ 3600MHz  GPU: EVGA 2070 FTW3 ULTRA+ (OC'd 50/300)  
PSU: Corsair HX850i   Storage: 980 Pro 1TB, 950 PRO 512Mb, (2)ADATA SU800 1TB  Keyboard: Logitech G910  Mouse: Logitech G502   Headset: Logitech G930 UPS: APC Pro 1500 S

Unraid box providing network routing, home automation services, and media services ( I love unraid!)

USB Key: SanDisk 16GB Ultra Fit  Mobo: Intel DX79SR Extreme+  CPU: i7-3820  Memory: 16Gb Kingston HyperX Predator  Storage: (cache)480gb Micron SSD (1)8TB HDD (1) 4TB HDD  
GPU: MSI GTX 1650 4GT LP OC (passed through to Emby)  NIC: Intel I350-T4 4-port Gb (passed through to PFSense)  UPS: APC PRO 1000
Docker Containers: Emby and Home-Assistant-Core  Virtual machines: PFsense ( I love PFSense!)

Family machines
Mobo: Asus Prime H310M-E  CPU: Intel Core i3-9100F  Cooling: Deepcool Gammaxx 400  Memory: Teamgroup Elite Plus DDR4 16GB  Storage: Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2  
GPU: Asus GTX 1660 Super 6GB or EVGA 1070 FTW 8GB  PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+  UPS: APC XS 1300


As well as a number of other machines, a ton of parts, miles of cables, and who knows what else!
Private message me for quicker assistance. I also build and ship custom machines at a really fair price.

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13 minutes ago, cr8tor said:

This is a good idea, but i have seen brand new name brand boards ship with a bios that is older than the mobo.

Just because there is a bios update, does not mean that factory was using it. And if its not a high turnover part, it very well may sit in a warehouse for a year before actually being sold to a retailer who then sells it to you.

I've seen it multiple times also so you cant be certain 100% based of when it was manufactured.

Thanks, I'll look out for that. :)

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