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[greenscreen94]

Hi, I need help with my PC because it totals around $900 and it's pretty much unusable.

 

Last summer I followed an LTT guide ($900 AMD Ryzen, links posted below) and despite having to buy a few things that weren't identical to the guide, I more or less have the PC in that build. I used my old GPU because I felt that $350 was too much for an RTX 2060 (they now sell for $600 second hand on Amazon), so I've got an old Radeon R9 380 basic bitch edition with no RGB or flashy "Sapphire" naming to it. My old PC was plagued with green screen crashes, hence my username, so I took the GPU apart and replaced the crusty ass thermal paste with some fresh paste. I have still had it green screen on me once or twice, but it's not as often as it used to be.

 

I installed Windows on a new 1TB HDD because that's what was available when I was installing it. Turns out my PC just isn't reading that I have an SSD installed and I don't really know why. When I run my PC off the Windows ono the HDD it's super slow and unresponsive. It won't let me open Steam and even struggles with opening the Windows menu to get to control panel. When I unplug the HDDs and the SSD is the only drive connected it tells me I only have 128mb available and I can't install it. Maybe my SSD is broken? I don't really know. 

 

Attached are some pics from my R9 380's surgery.

 

Sidenote: if anyone knows how to make a signature that you can put on posts where you have your build's info on there, please share how cause that would make posting in the forums so much easier. People ask what my build has and I'm just like idk man it's a computer... Thanks.

 

Here's my build with anything bolded being a component that I couldn't buy at the time, so I bought something comparable.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 380 (it's not the Sapphire or anything special, just two fans and no lights)

Motherboard: ASROCK B450M Pro4

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G5, 80 Plus Gold 650W

Storage: Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 TLC R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD

I also have a couple HDDs I think both are 1TB, idk one is from my old PC and the other was free so I threw it in cause why not.

Case: Deepcool Matrexx 50

 

 

[greenscreen94]

Here's a better spec list from a previous post of mine: 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor

GPU: XFX Radeon R9 380 4 GB Double Dissipation Video Card [Existing GPU originally purchased April 2016]

Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory

Storage:Silicon Power 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 2280

Case: Deepcool MATREXX 50 ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply: EVGA G5 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

[emosun]

24 minutes ago, greenscreen94 said:

My old PC was plagued with green screen crashes, hence my username, so I took the GPU apart and replaced the crusty ass thermal paste with some fresh paste. I have still had it green screen on me once or twice, but it's not as often as it used to be.

Ok well step 1 dont use that gpu if it has ha r dware faults. You never do diagnostics on known problematic hardware theres no reason to do so expecting any form of stability.

 

Second , fix the issue with your ssd. Use a different build of windows or try a different ssd or whatever you need to do to get the drive detected correctly. Again you should expect anything if you skip over the diagnostics and try to run windows anyway. Check for bios updates for the board that address compatibility and stability fixes

[greenscreen94]

My GPU does have hardware faults but there's no way I'm going to be able to get a replacement so she's just going to have to do her best.

 

I read around a bit about the B450M Pro4 motherboard and someone else on Reddit had the same problem. I reseated the SSD in the M.2 Ultra (so fancy) slot and tried again and it's still showing that the available drive is 128mb (I have a picture this time). 

 

There's a second NVME slot on the motherboard, so I'm going to give that a try. If that doesn't work I'll try to do the bios update you suggested.

[greenscreen94]

Alright, fun update. I switched the SSD to the other NVME slot which was a huge pain in the ass, and it's now showing no drive at all! So at least it was reading something the first time!

 

SSD now reseated in its original NVME slot. I pressed F11 with the Windows USB removed and I'm in the UEFI menu, but have no clue what to do from here. It recognizes that I have an SSD installed.

 

I found this to update my BIOS: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450m Pro4/#BIOS

Currently I'm on UEFI version B450M Pro4 P3.90 and the most recent update is 5.30.

 

Does anyone know any guides for updating BIOS?

[emosun]

It says right on asrocks site or it will have a program for doing it in the download itself

[greenscreen94]

28 minutes ago, emosun said:

It says right on asrocks site or it will have a program for doing it in the download itself

I updated the BIOS and now Windows 10 is installing on my SSD!!! This is by far the techiest I've ever gotten with my computer software-wise and it's pretty cool. Hopefully going forward I won't have as shitty of a computer. Thanks @emosun

[emosun]

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