I have to say, upgrading is confusing. Upgraded my i5 12600 cpu to an i7 13700kf cpu on my MSI Pro B660M-A Wifi DDR4

[Tirin]

Just got home from work. Been racking my brain all day. I searched before I bought the CPU and I found stuff saying, "Your board is compatible." Apparently my board isn't compatible? Or maybe it is? Idk, the card is in my PC and it's running. But only one of my three displays are working. I assume I need a bios update, but the bios I find for my board says it doesn't run 13th gen cpus. I'm the internet tells me that it shouldn't even turn on. I was having crashing early and lag issues, but I fixed that problem. I added just a little bit too much thermal paste. Wiped it down, reapplied and it's working fine. No crashing and a little lag. I found out my confusion is because there are like 4 MSI Pro B660M-A Wifi boards. Some of them support 13th gen and some don't. How do I know which board I have and should it even be working right now?

(Previous post stated the board was a 760. I fat fingered it when typing it in on my phone. I apologize.)

[OhioYJ]

13 minutes ago, Tirin said:

MSI Pro B660M-A Wifi

There aren't 4 boards (they are different models, non A, non Wifi, different part numbers). When I search this, I see one. Are you looking for specifications and support on the manufacturers website, or random websites? I would only look at the manufacturers website.

 

PRO B660M-A WIFI <-- I'm assuming this is your board. If so, click support, and then Compatibility Or Click here.

 

You can search for the 13700kf, which is shows as compatible, and which BIOS revision. However be aware they generally stop doing BIOS testing at some point, so read notes on the BIOS versions.

 

 

[Tirin]

49 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

There aren't 4 boards (they are different models, non A, non Wifi, different part numbers). When I search this, I see one. Are you looking for specifications and support on the manufacturers website, or random websites? I would only look at the manufacturers website.

 

PRO B660M-A WIFI <-- I'm assuming this is your board. If so, click support, and then Compatibility Or Click here.

 

You can search for the 13700kf, which is shows as compatible, and which BIOS revision. However be aware they generally stop doing BIOS testing at some point, so read notes on the BIOS versions.

 

 

Actually, mine is the ddr4 version. I found the bios update I needed, updated and still my other two monitors aren't working and it crashed.

[Needfuldoer]

3 minutes ago, Tirin said:

Actually, mine is the ddr4 version. I found the bios update I needed, updated and still my other two monitors aren't working and it crashed.

Are any of your monitors plugged into the motherboard? Your old CPU had integrated graphics but your new i7 does not, so the onboard HDMI ports won't work anymore. All your monitors will have to plug into the GPU.

[Tirin]

4 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Are any of your monitors plugged into the motherboard? Your old CPU had integrated graphics but your new i7 does not, so the onboard HDMI ports won't work anymore. All your monitors will have to plug into the GPU.

Yes. I plug them into my 3080 via display port.

[Tirin]

Update: I put back the i5 chip and everything works normally. Idk wtf is going on.