Bigg

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I'm a writer and indie game dev of indie games with cum in them. One half of @BPGames. Most recent project - Opportunity: A Sugar Baby Story.

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In fact I do not actually love that there seems to be no possible variation of RAM installation that makes the flashing amber light on my Asus X570-Plus motherboard stop flashing with no other obvious way forward other than to bring it to a professional who knows what they're doing to tell me where I fucked up for 300 dollars


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The GOOD news is that as far as the computer tech can tell, I didn't fuck up anywhere

The BAD news is that it's likely the motherboard itself that's defective which means I gotta deal with the hassle of shipping it back to NewEgg and waiting on a replacement (while also being out the 100 bucks for the tech's time)

Man I just. Fuckin. Wanted a new computer


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you might have already checked this, I know it seems to be obvious, but it bit me last time too: make sure to check that it doesn't want a specific ram slot order, it'll say in the manual.

(and if you have a recently-released CPU, you might need a firmware update on the motherboard, which I think was the source of my RAM errors two motherboards ago (it had other problems tho))

I've got 4 sticks of RAM and I've tried booting with every possible combination of 4, 2, and 1. The CPU's an AMD Ryzen 5900x, which is a couple years old so I kinda doubt it's the other thing

I actually just had this exact problem with this exact motherboard and CPU. Apparently the x570-plus has a lot of stock from early 2020 that’s still being sold and this series of ryzen came out in late 2020– I know you said that you think yours is compatible with ryzen 5000 series, but I bought a brand new motherboard and it had a 3-year-old bios on it! You can see the BIOS version that came out of the factory on the motherboard, it’s the last 4 digits of the number printed on the barcode next to the CPU slot

this page shows what version is required for each ryzen version: https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-x570-plus/helpdesk_cpu/?model2Name=TUF-GAMING-X570-PLUS

just… double-check, because I drove myself crazy over this in january and once I found out it was that, I called around to repair shops in the area until I found one that had a stock of older ryzen chips lying around. It took him 30 minutes and he charged me $60 to update the BIOS and get me on my way, and things have been working great ever since.

Aaah, it was a good thought, but no-go - my BIOS are apparently version 4403, and the Ryzen 5900x has been good since 2607. But now at least when I bring it in to the shop I'll be able to sound slightly cleverer when telling the tech what I've tried so far

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