A final report that I am keeping the laptop and have resolved all the issues. First off as the memory issue and freezes appear to be fixed and even with this generic charger the HP BIOS didn't like. Next Windows 11 did not automatically install the Vega 8 Integrated video drivers so I did and...
And another note just now, I plugged the charger back in and for 10 minutes of browsing all seemed fine albeit maybe slower. I then opened CCleaner to uninstall some MS bloatware from this new Windows 11 and noticed the uninstall operation and moving the highlight up and down the list was very...
I spent some time working with this machine and discovered one very odd thing. When he shipped it to me he did not include a charger. My old laptop, 10+ years, was HP and I had a generic charger I used with it. It worked so I used it and didn't think twice. While troubleshooting when I...
I just bought an HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop with NVidia1050 video and it arrived looking good. It is an AMD Ryzen 3550U so a big step up from my old HP I3. I made sure it was working and he sent it so the NVME SSE started a Windows 11 install at powerup. It went through that fine although it...
I found that out the first few times after first assembling it after Googling the problem. However when this problem first happened after running fine for almost a week that was not it. Today that was it and I let it go for a while after powering up. But yesterday I let it sit for 2 or 3...
If you are following this post here is the latest. Over the past couple of days I've researched more, mostly here, and also moved memory sticks around. I ALSO reset the BIOS to defaults but then did a little tweaking such as turning off wireless and setting a couple of peripheral items. I set...
I have done more troubleshooting and both sticks of memory are fine. I moved them around the various slots and the furthest slot of both pair with a stick in it boots. But add a stick to the second slot in each pair and it stalls with 2 red diagnostic LEDs frozen, of the four. I even got it...
My particular model was not on the QVL list. Sadly with this being the first DDR5 build I have no spare memory to try out. And that also means returning this for a QVL model to Newegg is difficult as I cannot use the machine while doing that. I really don't need another credit with them as I...
No overclocking at all, looking more for a solid high performance workstation than a gaming machine. I didn't check the list but may have to do that, possibly return it to Newegg for a different brand off the list. Funny thing is it ran fine out of the box, once I figured out that first POST...
I built myself a new system last week with an AMD Ryzen 7700X and an ASRock x670e Pro RS motherboard. It uses two sticks of CORSAIR Vengeance RAM DDR5 5600 Memory. The first time I attempted to boot the board still hadn't posted after about 15 seconds so I shut down the PS. I then tried a...
I have an older ASRock X99 Extreme 3 motherboard with an Intel I7-5820. It has operated perfectly since I built it 7+ years ago. I am considering installing Windows 11 upgrade on it but know it fails the security issue without a TPM module. The board has a socket for a TPM module and ASRock...
I'll keep your final suggestion in mind if turning off sleep doesn't do it. Today after I told him to remove the latest AMD graphics driver he clean installed an earlier version I had read about that might solve the problem. He did that and it hasn't had this problem today since. Also over...
I have posted about this problem recently but have some new information:
I built a good friend a new AMD computer system using the following parts about a year and a half ago. The hardware was: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, XPG Gammix NVME SSD 512GB Internal, XFX RX560...
I have posted about this system recently but have some new information:
I built a good friend a new AMD computer system using the following parts about a year and a half ago. The hardware was: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, XPG Gammix NVME SSD 512GB Internal, XFX RX560...
Over my 30+ years building and servicing computers I don't recall ever having a power supply cause spurious problems although I know it could and respect your suggestion. They are the number one failure component from my experience with CD players number two. But it has always been a case of...
As far as I know it is not overclocked. It is a very low stress machine just used by an older gentleman to basically do some paperwork and browse the internet. My biggest problem is I used to live one mile from him and working on it was easy. These days since I moved we are 140 miles apart...
It could cause some type problems but my experience is that they usually fail or don't fail. A flaky voltage would cause problems but I don't think they would manifest in a driver time out error message. Thanks for thinking of it. I've built 500+ computers starting around 1985 and power...
Thanks, that has definitely crossed my mind but I think he used the machine removing one stick at a time and still had the problem. I just asked him to try again as a memory stick problem would definitely cause such problems. I built a high end system for a friend some years back with 8 sticks...
I built a friend an AMD Ryaen 2700 CPU, AsRock B450 motherboard, 2 8GB Viper memory sticks, an XPG 512 GB NVME SSD, and an XFX RX-560 video card in early 2020. He used it fine except for one time when it refused to boot and didn't recognize the NVME SSD. I told him to remove it and clean the...
He has a data drive and I have spare HDDs I could do that on, I should have done it while I had it last week but it ran great for me other than one video driver crash during a stressful 3D graphics stress test. He does sometimes get a driver error problem, yesterday, when it crashes that seems...
I do appreciate your help, just trying to logically think this through. I just got an email from my friend and he said he was browsing the internet tonight and the screen just goes black, no error messages and he had to do a hard reset to get it running again. Also I just looked and saw that...
Why would you say that, because of the initial problem of not booting and the SSD contact cleaning fixing that? It is actually an XPG drive but if I could determine it was that drive that would be great. Is there any way to test it specifically to determine if it is acting up? Thanks for the...
I built a friend an AMD Ryaen 2700 CPU, AsRock B450 motherboard, 2 8GB Viper memory sticks, an XPG 512 GB NVME SSD, and an XFX RX-560 video card. The system ran great for almost a year and then wouldn't boot. I told my friend to rescocket the memory and SSD and it appeared that resocketing...
I wanted to give an update on this problem. I contacted AMD and they sent me an Athlon 200GE to let me flash the BIOS. I installed it and the board would still did not post. That surprised me and at first I figured I had a bad board. However before going that route I pulled two sticks of...
I tried different memory sockets and first had it mounted in the case but then when it wouldn't post, it has always fired up, fans, etc., I removed it and set it on the cardboard box and it did the same thing. It probably is the BIOS/CPU problem and I have a request for a loaner CPU from AMD's...
Thanks, I just found the AMD loaner webpage and filled out the form so I hope I get one quickly. Do you know for as best as possible that this is likely the problem, would I get no post or anything with what appears to be a dead system? The USB keyboard light does not come on either. While I...
I just received a new ASRock B450M-HDV motherboard and Ryzen 5 3400G CPU. I installed the CPU with two sticks of GSkill DDR4 and the system will not post. I am very suspicious that it is because the BIOS is not recent enough to support this CPU. Is there any way to update flash the BIOS with...
I was about ready to resign I had a MB problem but decided that because I didn't have any other options before the return I would flash the BIOS from 3.30 to 3.50. I didn't expect this to correct my problems and was a bit hesitant because I have had flash failures before. So I prepared the USB...
I got the new certified memory and used two sticks and just after the Starting Windows appeared on the screen the machine hard booted. I then took the CPU out and looked at everything. I was thinking possibly a pin had not connected that still allowed it to fun until that lead was needed. Taking...
I got the new certified memory and used two sticks and just after the Starting Windows appeared on the screen the machine hard booted. I then took the CPU out and looked at everything. I was thinking possibly a pin had not connected that still allowed it to fun until that lead was needed. Taking...
I should have looked that up but the two sticks I am using until tomorrow were out of my Intel system just to give it a try. The 128GB I have coming in our off the list. That's why I won't make any judgement until those arrive tomorrow. Thanks for your suggestion.
I am building a high end workstation for a rocket scientist buddy. Yesterday I received the CPU, MB, and NVME SSD. I assembled them very carefully and used 2 4GB sticks of Corsair DDR4 from my machine to fire it up. (I have 128GB of "certified" HyperX DDR4 coming tomorrow) It fired up fine...
I've heard of stacking a good chip on the failed chip in a parallel circuit configuration and booting that way. Then once booted simply take the stacked chip off and try to flash again. I did that similarly back in the days of socketed chips a couple of times. I would boot with a good socket...
I am building a high end scientific/engineering workstation for a friend and am investigating motherboards that work with no problems using 8x16 GB DDR4 memory. It anyone has experience with such a system and has a recommendation it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I am building a high end engineering workstation for a good friend and plan on using a Threadripper 2950W and likely an Asus motherboard. We plan on putting 128GB (8x12) DDR4 memory in it. I have never used this much memory in a system before and wonder if I might run into any compatibility or...
Thanks to everyone suggestions. I am honing in on the motherboard. The system is two or three years old and up until just recently it has run well. I isolated the components down to the motherboard/CPU parts, as I couldn't replace them or substitute parts, and it still would repeat the...
Back around 1982 or so I built a Sinclair/Timex computer. It had a membrane keyboard so I found a large keyboard in a large plastic case and wired it in. I only used it for a 3 or 4 months before selling it. You had to load programs off a cassette tape machine.
Then I bought a TI-99 and...
I have been working on a friends computer I built him 2 or 3 years ago. It was running Windows 7 but I now have Win 10 on it. He brought it because it was acting up. When I received it it would start but was bogging down but the big problem was it would randomly simply turn off, like if you...
I am helping my next door neighbor try and recover data from his IOmega external HDD. When connected either in the housing with a USB port or out of the housing and directly connected to my SATA port the computer fails to recognize the drive at all. My best guess then is that the circuit board...
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