AMD RYZEN Builders Thread

[dispr]

So pissed right now! Got sick and tired of waiting on my Asrock Tachi from Newegg, so I took a drive to Fry's and picked up an Asus Prime x370 pro. Get everything setup and I go to turn it on.......Nothing, lights come on, fans turn, black screen. I try moving ram into different slots, unplug everything but the basics and still nothing. Taking this pos back to Frys tomorrow and making a drive to Microcenter and see what I can get there... So frustrated!!!!!!!!!

 

[SketchMaster]

So pissed right now! Got sick and tired of waiting on my Asrock Tachi from Newegg, so I took a drive to Fry's and picked up an Asus Prime x370 pro. Get everything setup and I go to turn it on.......Nothing, lights come on, fans turn, black screen. I try moving ram into different slots, unplug everything but the basics and still nothing. Taking this pos back to Frys tomorrow and making a drive to Microcenter and see what I can get there... So frustrated!!!!!!!!!

Mine sat and did nothing for a good minute before it finally came to life. Plug everything back in, turn it on, and just sit and give it a good minute or two.

 

[Crono]

Mine sat and did nothing for a good minute before it finally came to life. Plug everything back in, turn it on, and just sit and give it a good minute or two.

Similarly long POST time on the MSI X370 Titanium, though it at least cycles through post codes on the debug LED while booting (if one sticks then you know there's a problem).

 

[SketchMaster]

Welp, I bricked my prime x370.

While checking on the update I found the system was locked up and decided to take a gamble on restating it and testing out Asus's recovery feature.

...It doesn't work in this situation. No message, won't boot from a USB with a bios file on it, nothing. I sent an email to Asus asking for tips, but this may be a loss.

I did happen to snatch up a c6h when they were on newegg today. So if worst comes to worst I'll pay the learning tax on this one and just be more careful with the next board.

 

[IEC]

Got custom loop set up and ASUS Crosshair VI Hero updated to BIOS 0902.

Quick and dirty OC to 4.1GHz with very little tweaking. I think I may be able to do better tomorrow.

With bad mem timings lol:
http://valid.x86.fr/cg0ath

 

[richierich1212]

Welp, I bricked my prime x370.

While checking on the update I found the system was locked up and decided to take a gamble on restating it and testing out Asus's recovery feature.

...It doesn't work in this situation. No message, won't boot from a USB with a bios file on it, nothing. I sent an email to Asus asking for tips, but this may be a loss.

I did happen to snatch up a c6h when they were on newegg today. So if worst comes to worst I'll pay the learning tax on this one and just be more careful with the next board.

I thought the update had to take hours for some odd reason. Restarting during this update process is a big no-no.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5yph9q/psa_remove_overclocks_restore_stable_settings/

 

[guskline]

IEC, great. What cpu water block did you use?

 

[SketchMaster]

I thought the update had to take hours for some odd reason. Restarting during this update process is a big no-no.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5yph9q/psa_remove_overclocks_restore_stable_settings/

Yes, and yes.

Though I didn't know about the update causing the system to hang. Guess that's what I get for watching water boil.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

So pissed right now! Got sick and tired of waiting on my Asrock Tachi from Newegg, so I took a drive to Fry's and picked up an Asus Prime x370 pro. Get everything setup and I go to turn it on.......Nothing, lights come on, fans turn, black screen. I try moving ram into different slots, unplug everything but the basics and still nothing. Taking this pos back to Frys tomorrow and making a drive to Microcenter and see what I can get there... So frustrated!!!!!!!!!

If you have a second computer and a free flash drive, down load the latest bios from the Asus website and format your flash drive to fat32 and drag and drop your new bios to the flash drive and insert it into one of the usb ports on your Asus prime board and do a bios flash back. make sure you only have one stick of ram in your memory slots this helps alot to recover from a bad bios flash. if you need further help just report back here and we'll try to get you going to the best of our ability.

 

[IEC]

IEC, great. What cpu water block did you use?

EK Supremacy MX (new AM4 version). All I had to do was remove plastic mounting brackets from the motherboard, apply thermal paste, and screw it in.

 

[Markfw]

Well, I got pissed off and ordered the $89 ASRock x350 board, the cheapest there is, maybe I will build a 3 or 5 system in the future. Also ordered a $99 set of memory that was linked to earlier, I hope it works out. When the Taichi comes in, I am still ordering it !

 

[Mockingbird]

I did get an answer from Newegg as to when the ASRock X370 Taichi would be available.

It could be available anytime from the end of next week (earliest) to the end of the month (latest).

Newegg has placed orders for hundreds of units.

 

[dispr]

If you have a second computer and a free flash drive, down load the latest bios from the Asus website and format your flash drive to fat32 and drag and drop your new bios to the flash drive and insert it into one of the usb ports on your Asus prime board and do a bios flash back. make sure you only have one stick of ram in your memory slots this helps alot to recover from a bad bios flash. if you need further help just report back here and we'll try to get you going to the best of our ability.

Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go, but still no help.. I think the board is bad.. I read another forum where someone had the same issue as I do. turns out the BIOS that the Mobo shipped out with is incompatible with my 1700.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?91578-Prime-X370-Pro-No-boot-post-or-beeps&p=637079

 

[dispr]

Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go, but still no help.. I think the board is bad.. I read another forum where someone had the same issue as I do. turns out the BIOS that the Mobo shipped out with is incompatible with my 1700.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?91578-Prime-X370-Pro-No-boot-post-or-beeps&p=637079

Also, when I went to Fry's earlier today, they had 4 open box Mobo's that were returned the last couple of days. I suspect these Mobo's were bad too but Fry's threw them back on the floor.

 

[railroadmaster]

So far I am happy camper. I overclocked my my Ryzen 7 1700 with my Asus B350 Plus motherboard and the latest bios. I am running 3.8ghz stable at 1.3v. Mutiplier set to 190 and divide set to 10 (do at your own discretion). I am running Fedora 25 with the 4.9 linux 64 bit kernel. I benchmarked using the Linux geekbench (measures differently than Windows) and I got results that were better than the Core i7-5960x under linux. The 6900k under linux is a little bit faster but all the tests run it at a higher frequency.
My results
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/2062721

 

[imported_jjj]

Also, when I went to Fry's earlier today, they had 4 open box Mobo's that were returned the last couple of days. I suspect these Mobo's were bad too but Fry's threw them back on the floor.

Make sure the platform can boot with your RAM, seems that some modules don't work at all with Ryzen for now.

 

[psychok9]

Guys are there benchmark on virtualization systems as VMware?

 

[guskline]

So far I am happy camper. I overclocked my my Ryzen 7 1700 with my Asus B350 Plus motherboard and the latest bios. I am running 3.8ghz stable at 1.3v. Mutiplier set to 190 and divide set to 10 (do at your own discretion). I am running Fedora 25 with the 4.9 linux 64 bit kernel. I benchmarked using the Linux geekbench (measures differently than Windows) and I got results that were better than the Core i7-5960x under linux. The 6900k under linux is a little bit faster but all the tests run it at a higher frequency.
My results
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/2062721

railroadmaster that's a great score. Here are my results for Geekbench 4.40 windows 64 with the same mb as you and a Ryzen 7 1800X at stock.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/2064036

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Wow wow wow wait a minute here.... does anyone here actually have the Asus X370 hero VI mobo yet? I just noticed that on the top left of the motherboard there is 2 cpu power plugs one 8 pin and the other a 4 pin. Do I plug in to both at the same time or is it one or the other? I think all I have is a single 8 pin connector on my psu for cpu.I dont want to fry my hardware..

Yes. Have had it since launch.

You don't need to connect the additional 4-pin, its supplying power to the same plane as the 8-pin. On the other hand, its not hurting anything either. If you're planning a major OC it would be a good idea to plug it in though.

Nope its wasn't in so I purchased the Asus X370 Hero VI since Asus finally fixed the Bios issue and stopped the Auto Bios Update Bricking problem.

I would recommend reading the ROG Crosshair VI overclocking thread over on OCN. It has all the explanations necessary for the issue.

 

[unseenmorbidity]

I am the last member of the Taichi master race left standing.

The last of the taichians!

 

[Zstream]

Holy moly.... your gonna spend $500 just on ram?What the heck do you need 64gb for?I had 32gb's and couldn't get all my programs at once to max out more then 12gb's of the 32gb.I think windows forced page filing or something like that to.

Well I have two VM's that will use 16gb each, a Linux VM using 2gb, two windows VM's at 4gb each. I use Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Skype for business and like to play games all at the same time. Kinda like a killer WFH and after dark setup

 

[DisEnchantment]

Guys are there benchmark on virtualization systems as VMware?

Me too I want this, I don't use VMWare but I use VirtualBox. Its free .

 

[Zoffster1]

Well I have two VM's that will use 16gb each, a Linux VM using 2gb, two windows VM's at 4gb each. I use Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Skype for business and like to play games all at the same time. Kinda like a killer WFH and after dark setup

Wfh?

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Well I have two VM's that will use 16gb each, a Linux VM using 2gb, two windows VM's at 4gb each. I use Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Skype for business and like to play games all at the same time. Kinda like a killer WFH and after dark setup

I use most of the same programs as well but also run adobe premiere and/or handbrake and never needed 64gb of ram to do it all. But hey to each his own I guess!!

Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go, but still no help.. I think the board is bad.. I read another forum where someone had the same issue as I do. turns out the BIOS that the Mobo shipped out with is incompatible with my 1700.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?91578-Prime-X370-Pro-No-boot-post-or-beeps&p=637079

If your motherboard powers on and the LED's are lighting up and the fans all start spinning but you are getting a black screen then its gotta be either a memory or video card or bios related issue. Did you unzip or unrar the bios file image and rename it to the needed file name before adding it to the flash drive?? As Asus bios 99% of the time have to be renamed to work.

Next, to do a bios flash back you dont even need to power on the motherbord and you dont need ram or the cpu even installed. Just stick the flash drive with the correct bios into the USB slot while the motheroard is powered off and hold the bios flash back button down till the little LED starts flashing then wait like 10 to 20 mins for the LED to turn off as when it turns off the flash is all done and you will be all set. Are all your molex power connectors pluged in and maybe double check that you have a solid connection from the video card to your monitor or tv.
Not sure if any of this is gonna help but I am trying for ya and I wish ya the best of luck.I know broken hardware can be very frustrating

 

[Markfw]

I am the last member of the Taichi master race left standing.

The last of the taichians!

No, still waiting on one... I just have a temporary sub coming