YouTube Tutorial Bricked My Motherboard

[keshavcolonel]

I want to sue YouTube for my Bricked motherboard. I was watching a tutorial on YouTube for enabling TPM 2.0 and installing Windows 11 on a Gigabyte B450m DS3H board.

I wanted to upgrade to Windows 11 on my PC, but the setup kept telling me my system doesn't meet the minimum requirements. The guy in tutorial changed the TPM setting to enable and also changed secure boot platform key settings, so I followed the steps and behold, my motherboard is now bricked!

I wish I could've seen the dislikes on that tutorial or read the description before attempt.

Tell me how do I reach YouTube to get my motherboard's worth of money back or you guys give me good motherboard recommendations for micro ATX form factor pc.

My current PC specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 

GPU: Gigabyte Windforce AMD RX580 8GB OC

Cooler: Silverstone PF 240mm AIO ARGB

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (8x4) DDR4 3000Mhz

Storage: Crucial P2 500GB m.2 nvme SSD, WD Green 240GB Sata SSD

PSU: Corsair RM1000X

Case: Silverstone Fara H1M

[Middcore]

1 minute ago, keshavcolonel said:

I want to sue YouTube for my Bricked motherboard.

You can't, at least not successfully. People have done much more destructive things than ruin a computer part because they were following what they saw on YouTube and YouTube still can't be held responsible for it. YouTube does not and cannot police the accuracy of "advice" provided on their platform for free, and no guarantees or warranties are expressed or implied. You follow any advice you get there at your own risk. Same would go for recommendations you get on this forum - if something goes wrong, you can't sue LMG. 

 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, keshavcolonel said:

I want to sue YouTube for my Bricked motherboard.

This is an irritating and immature outlook. First of all, obviously the problem stems mainly from the content, if that is what caused the issue in the first place.

 

Of course I'd argue it wasn't, because there are a number of things you need to do before you confirm that your motherboard is "bricked". Have you checked the manual for your motherboard on how to reset the BIOS? Have you tried any recovery steps that would typically get the system to post?

[keshavcolonel]

If you guys don't believe me, then watch this tutorial 

 

[Lurick]

How is your motherboard "bricked" from enabling TPM? Did you clear CMOS or try any steps to recover? What steps did you do that lead to it being bricked?

Also you're not going to sue anyone for something you did without doing due diligence to see its impact, blindly following a tutorial is your fault nobody else's.

[Needfuldoer]

Good luck with that.

 

Try unplugging your PC from the wall and removing the coin cell battery from its holder on the motherboard, then leaving it for 10-15 minutes. Once that time's up, put the battery back in, plug it back in, and try powering it up. That should clear all BIOS user settings back to the factory defaults. Unless you did something like flash a "patched" or "unofficial" BIOS, that should revive a soft-bricked PC.

[keshavcolonel]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

This is an irritating and immature outlook. First of all, obviously the problem stems mainly from the content, if that is what caused the issue in the first place.

 

Of course I'd argue it wasn't, because there are a number of things you need to do before you confirm that your motherboard is "bricked". Have you checked the manual for your motherboard on how to reset the BIOS? Have you tried any recovery steps that would typically get the system to post?

I've tried every possible methods but there is no post on my PC. I've removed ram, changed ram and tried different slots, removed the CMOS battery and reseated it. I've also removed GPU and reseated it just in case. I've also changed monitors and their hdmi, display port cables. There is no post on screen. The RGBs in AIO lights up, but keyboard numlock won't light up. There is no signal from motherboard.

[aisle9]

48 minutes ago, keshavcolonel said:

I want to sue YouTube for my Bricked motherboard.

I'm sorry, but I stopped right here. I can't help you beyond saying that if you plan to sue YouTube, good luck. If someone shows you the best way to burn down a house then you go out and burn your own house down by giving it a try, you don't get to sue them either.

 

Have you tried resetting CMOS? Pulling the CMOS battery? Anything else that will definitely fix it? It's really, really hard to get a motherboard to let you brick it in the stock BIOS. If you have done so, I mean, good thing it's Prime Day.

[keshavcolonel]

10 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Good luck with that.

 

Try unplugging your PC from the wall and removing the coin cell battery from its holder on the motherboard, then leaving it for 10-15 minutes. Once that time's up, put the battery back in, plug it back in, and try powering it up. That should clear all BIOS user settings back to the factory defaults. Unless you did something like flash a "patched" or "unofficial" BIOS, that should revive a soft-bricked PC.

I simply updated the platform key under the secure boot menu in bios as mentioned in that tutorial then suddenly my screen went black and there was no signal afterwards. I tried all the possible methods and now waiting for a miracle to un-brick my motherboard.

[PDifolco]

Well, each accident ends up with something positive : replace your trash DS3H mobo with something that's worth your 5900X 

[Jorgemeister]

Cant you go back into BIOS and do a reset to default settings?

 

Unless it was a failed BIOS flash, I have no idea what can you do to a motherboard in settings to brick it, assuming you didnt overclock anything drastically.

[IkeaGnome]

A couple things I've noticed 20 seconds into the video.

And why would you have to use Rufus to make a W11 installer? Windows has the download to create that on their site. Not through Rufus. 

[keshavcolonel]

3 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

A couple things I've noticed 20 seconds into the video.

And why would you have to use Rufus to make a W11 installer? Windows has the download to create that on their site. Not through Rufus. 

As I've mentioned before, i didn't read his description during the attempted bios settings tweak. I noticed the description just a couple of seconds before my bios screen turned black and no signal appeared on my monitor.

[Middcore]

Just now, keshavcolonel said:

As I've mentioned before, i didn't read his description during the attempted bios settings tweak.

 

Sorry, still your fault. You can't even claim your stuff was damaged by following his instructions, your stuff broke while you were explicitly not following them because he told you not to use this method on your board. 

 

I understand you're frustrated, but take it as a learning experience and move on. Your exact model of board costs all of $65 on Newegg right now. Consider it a sign it's time for an upgrade. 

[keshavcolonel]

10 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Well, each accident ends up with something positive : replace your trash DS3H mobo with something that's worth your 5900X 

That's a positive i can get from this disaster

[Jorgemeister]

Will you be watching Youtube reviews to choose your next motherboard?

[PDifolco]

16 minutes ago, keshavcolonel said:

That's a positive i can get from this disaster

Yeah ! 

I still wonder why you wanted so bad getting that W11 TPM crap, on my rig that's perfectly compatible I took care of *never* install that !

 

 

[Ashleyyyy]

[Ashleyyyy]

35 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

And why would you have to use Rufus to make a W11 installer? Windows has the download to create that on their site. Not through Rufus. 

rufus actually is valid, the media creation tool is trash. it's often more reliable to make a windows installer using rufus and a .iso if you know what you're doing. 

[GuiltySpark_]

7 minutes ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

rufus actually is valid, the media creation tool is trash. it's often more reliable to make a windows installer using rufus and a .iso if you know what you're doing. 

I know what I'm doing.

 

I will never, ever, recommend the people i'm helping in the LTT Discord use Rufus to make a bootable Windows installer. You really have to play to your audience when you're help extremely technically illiterate people and the Rufus interface is an absolute UX disaster. Understanding who you're talking to and how much effort will be required to exert on your part when answering questions is a skill many lack. 

 

Meanwhile, put in the USB stick and click next in the MCT and boom, their done. Little prompting maybe with a one or two questions it asks. 

I'll die on this hill. I've personally used both extensively and the main Rufus menu might as well be in Greek to some of these people. In fact I think I had someone tell me that specifically.

[keshavcolonel]

39 minutes ago, Jorgemeister said:

Will you be watching Youtube reviews to choose your next motherboard?

Never. Unless, the youtuber is trusted and verified like our LTT, GamersNexus, JayZ2cents, Hardware unboxed etc.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

That tutorial did everything right it seems from a quick look at it

You just need to reset the bios to stock settings.

You need to remove this battery from the motherboard

then you need to unplug the power supply from the wall

now wait for about 5-10 minutes, and go back to your pc
plug it back in, and put the battery back.
It should boot

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

How about Ventoy?

I will say, ventoy is the easiest option, just run the exe, press install, it takes like 2 seconds, and put the iso in the usb drive

[GuiltySpark_]

9 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

How about Ventoy?

I kinda feel like I derailed the topic a little too much already with that rant but for me, i'll just stick to the official tool with an easy to follow wizard. It just reliably works every time with little intervention needed. 
 

Again that was when helping others through discord and the like. Personal use, yeah all these other programs work fine. 

 

*edit*

 

Its about the simplest solution to the specific problem. 95% of the time its someone who's got no idea about anything computer related and they just spent an entire weekend on the struggle bus putting this PC together, probably asking where to plug each cable in along the way. 

 

They get to the end and then start asking about Windows and.. being able to just point them to an official MS page to download the the tool and put in a USB stick is as easy as it gets. 

 

Ventoy for example, the website is a little basic, going to downloads takes you to Github (scary for these people), no clear and specific Download button, you need to direct them to the specific Windows installer.. THEN you need to explain extracting ZIP files. 

 

These are all extremely basic things we all take for granted but these are massive hurdles when doing remote tech support that need to be taken into account. 

[keshavcolonel]

3 minutes ago, Helpful Tech Witch said:

That tutorial did everything right it seems from a quick look at it

You just need to reset the bios to stock settings.

You need to remove this battery from the motherboard

then you need to unplug the power supply from the wall

now wait for about 5-10 minutes, and go back to your pc
plug it back in, and put the battery back.
It should boot

I've only changed that platform key setting in the secure boot after disabling csm option in bios. Will CMOS battery trick restore all bios settings? For now I've unplugged everything from motherboard except the nvme storage and cpu. I'll wait for couple of hours before plugging everything back.