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To: tomike00 who wrote (40280)3/7/2021 9:00:59 AM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) of 72776
 
Tell me about the BIOS updating. :)

Took me a few hours to figure out that the warning light on my (ASUS) mobo was not in fact a RAM problem (as indicated) or perhaps PSU problem (as some suggested, but a BIOS issue that did not even let the PC to boot.

Fortunately, ASUS has a nice utility called FlashBack, which can flash BIOS even in PC, even when it is not booting.
Unfortunately, it is very poorly documented - so another couple of hours to eliminate all other causes of problems before figuring out how to flash BIOS with this utility.
(in fact you do it with the main ATX power off, but PSU still powering up the mobo - not the most obvious).

And then to add 3rd phase of head scratching, the USB stick with with Windows installation - the original one from Microsoft - was corrupted. Fortunately, MSFT makes it easy to make your own installation media fairly easily, by downloading it. You just need to supply the purchased installation key...

From that point, everything went smoothly. I got am overclocking utility from AMD which figured out one of the cores of 5800x can run at 5.049 GHz, which should be great for some games, I am not sure how Windows figures out which one is the best core.
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