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Windows 10 shouldn't need drivers. Is it being detected in the BIOS?
Yes, and its in CSM mode. From what I have read for an NVMe drive, you may need that. And its the only drive that can be installed to. The win 10 disk is in a USB cdrom.
 
I have an image that I downloaded, and burned a CD. How much space on the USB stick is required. I have a 2 gig stick.
 
So I used NTLite to create an updated Win10 with USB drivers from AMD, installed from USB drive to SSD in 5-10 mins :confused2:

I think you need a 4 gig, but 8 would be safer to use, throw some drivers and what not on it along with the windows install stuff.
 
I have an image that I downloaded, and burned a CD. How much space on the USB stick is required. I have a 2 gig stick.
More than 2Gb I believe 🙂 The main thing is that it's a new image not an original version. So as long as it's booting from the external drive then you should be ok.

SATA mode in AHCI?
 
Yes, sata is in AHCI. I also tried turning off CSM, as ASRock said that the same as turning it on, and selecting UEFI only.

OK< I found an 8 gig USB 2.0 stick. So How do I create a boot disk ?
 
OK< I downloaded Rufus, its using my DVD ISO to create a boot disk. I will try that after its done (running very slowly)

BTW for grins, I tried the win7 install disk (original MS disk) and it just locks up on the first screen.
 
BTW for grins, I tried the win7 install disk (original MS disk) and it just locks up on the first screen.
I wonder if it's something to do with the drive being allocated as a legacy SATA/IDE device over USB. Using a USB drive instead should answer that.
 
Its installing from USB ! Why I had to do this, I have no idea, but its going.

Thanks guys !! I will reply with some benchmarks once up. What would you like to see ? (no games)

Edit: Current system (not the eventual)
ASRock AB350 Pro4 AM4 AMD Promontory B350
Ryzen 1800x
MP500 Corsair NVMe (240 gig)
16 gig (2x8) Gskill 3200 cas 14
Cooler: Corsair H100i
PSU Corsair AX860

video card, some POS 550ti
 
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Is anyone with a C6H motherboard able to test their audio output using 600 ohm impedance headphones? I'm getting a lot of popping on mine and wondering if this is a hardware fault or something that just happens when amplification is set to extreme. I get the popping on both front and read headphone output. Optical is fine.
 
Reporting my one week with R7 1700X
- Mindblowing upgrade from my old Gen 3 i5 with 8GB DDR3 1600.
- Assigning 8 cores core to the Ubuntu 64 machine in Oracle Virtual Box make the VM faster than native Ubuntu with my old i5 😱😱. Although now I have 960 Evo SSD compared to my earlier SATA HDD.
- Everything is very stable, default clocks but RAM at 3200 MHz. sticking to BIOS 0503 for ASUS B350 Prime Plus.


I have new experiences
I installed a second SATA HDD and started running Ubuntu 64 natively and discovered some terrible bugs with the Software I am developing.
My program is spending most of the time blocking itself when I have many cores. The threads are busy waiting to get a lock on a shared HW and blocking each other most of the time resulting in throughput regression 😀😀.

I played some Tropico 5 but I was more interested in watching my Task Manager than playing the game.

Sadly I have not been able to refrain from spending on bits and pieces to go with the build.
I like the LED on the B350 Prime Plus and the LED Fan on the Case. So I was checking out lots of stuffs on Youtube and end up buying the Logitech G910 and G502 RGB Mouse and Keyboard.
Then I went and got Corsair Dual 140 MM Red LED Fans.
Then I got Hard swap red color fans for the RX 480 GTR.
I have Trident Z RGB 3200 CL14 in my Amazon basket to go along with my plain Trident Z I hope they will be compatible together.
I want to order some cable mod kits.
Now I want a wraith Max RGB cooler and AMD is not selling 😡
I made a mistake of buying the Case with Window and now I am losing money.

But it is fun to work, I just want to keep writing code. I like my RGB Mechanical keyboard and my 16 cores 😀😀

My advice to any programmer working with lots of code, a fast SSD will index tens of thousands of source files including the Linux includes in a snap. For people frequently switching between branches in eclipse it is a breeze. instant index rebuild. I am very happy with the 960 Evo. I am just watching my TBW though.
 
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I was moderately confused about the installation configuration of the memory - I think the manual said to do it like this - does this seem right?
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I am using Trident Z 3200 CL15 with DOCP option in the BIOS with an ASUS B350 Prime Plus board. BIOS version 0503.
 
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