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I for the longest time had no idea what Roblox was. I thought it was just Minecraft. I kept seeing these posts about tycoon games on Reddit and they looked pretty cool. I thought they were PC games. Then one boring, fateful day I took the plunge, figured it out and started playing some retail...

lol melting CPUs, I missed that! It is amazing these boards are way more expensive than they use to be and yet so unfeature rich. Haha a backup BIOS with no way to launch other than luck :D

I'm going to walk him through taking it part and trying to boot up with minimal parts. After that, yeah, RMA. lol nothing wrong with keeping stuff up to date. BIOS though remains a hectic process that can get you into trouble.

lol true. My first build at that age I installed the MB over a standoff and shorted it out :D Their BIOS is weird though, the earlier ones you had to install sequentially and that's what I was worried he did wrong, but he was working from a newer one that didn't require that.

Ryzen 5 5600X I'm not 100% since it's been a few days since I talked to him, but I believe he was running BIOS F62 and attempted to flash to F64e. I don't know why he flashed (or didn't ask for help first, he's 15). Heard back from Gigabyte and it's a classic: Dear customer Thank you for...

Yeah, he didn't take out the CPU. All he did to the system was flash BIOS. I'll see if I can get him to try your juju magic :D

It's a strange pro model, not a lot of bells and whistles. Just like their tech support which I still haven't heard from in over a week! No number to call either that I see, just chat/email. I just got a new ASrock board and asked a pre-sale question and they answered in less that 6 hours. So...

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll have him go bare bones.

Yeah no LED diagnostics, just a power light. No beeps either, but I forgot about the speaker :D Do they even make those little 2 pin speakers anymore?

He said no, but I'm having him double check.

That's what I read too. I know if the BIOS is too old it's not going to support the AMD processor he has. It wasn't clear how the back up BIOS gets updated, like does it update to a previous version when you flash or does it just stay with whatever the factory shipped? Even so it still boots and...

I don't see any in the diagrams listed. My nephew lives in another state. I've read a bunch of trouble shooting links and haven't found anything like that, just the power button/reset mentioned. The only thing I've seen work so far is a guy who desoldered both chips and swapped them. I guess...

This is actually my nephews system, he has the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro WiFi MB and I believe he bricked it by flashing BIOS. It's locked at the BIOS launch screen, no KB/Mouse. The board has 2 BIOS chips, but I can't find anywhere in the manual how to enable the 2nd backup BIOS chip. I read...

So you're so concerned about saving humanity at the start of your post, but by the end that humanity went out the window in the form of name calling... The beginning of your post shows how politics have created the biggest issue with this virus when you state this: "FDA requires healthcare...

I thought babies were already harvested for their organs and sold to the 1%?