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I needed my own thread, which is typically a bad sign, but there's already enough Ryzen related topics in CPU & motherboard forums. There's a laundry list of things that I need to figure out so I think that this should be helpful. Anyway, on to the issues at hand:
this would be the 1700 on the MSI Pro Carbon - BIOS dated 3/17
1. Bootup - seems like the process is mega slow and often times the board reverts to defaults or hangs with the "BOOT" debug LED lit. Sometimes a hard reset will fix this but most of the time it will not. I have successfully booted windows @ 4Ghz with RAM at 29XX, and it is remarkably stable, but it still doesn't like to boot up.
2. No video - as I mentioned before I think this is a AMD chipset issue... because I had nearly the same problem on my AM3+ board and the 290X I was using (DisplayPort). Like the 290, this 480 doesn't seem to want to produce video from DP but the DVI works fine. Because of this, I have been forced to use a secondary monitor to navigate BIOS menus and M-flash. Not awful, but not ideal either. This Polaris card never did anything like that on the Z170 board (also using DP).
3. USB - Can't really explain this one... my mouse works at boot time/BIOS but my keyboard does not. Settings indicate that all USB functions are enabled, yet the kb doesn't seem to work at all until windows is up and running. Could this be a port type issue?
4. Shut down - this one is weird too... occasionally, well most of the time, the computer will not shut down completely and the "CPU" debug LED will remain lit. When this happens, I need to do a hard reset and then manually shut it down. Super wonky, and I don't really know the cause of that yet.
5. SSD performance - Nit picking a bit here but my boot SSD doesn't seem to be quite as fast as it was when attached to the Z170 board's storage chipset. It's a PNY CS1311 so middle of the road, but I'm wondering if perhaps there is something else I can do to improve the performance aside from swapping ports.
Help on any or all of these would be appreciated. The computer seems to be fine once Windows 10 is running, but the POST and shut down issues are probably the most annoying.
this would be the 1700 on the MSI Pro Carbon - BIOS dated 3/17
1. Bootup - seems like the process is mega slow and often times the board reverts to defaults or hangs with the "BOOT" debug LED lit. Sometimes a hard reset will fix this but most of the time it will not. I have successfully booted windows @ 4Ghz with RAM at 29XX, and it is remarkably stable, but it still doesn't like to boot up.
2. No video - as I mentioned before I think this is a AMD chipset issue... because I had nearly the same problem on my AM3+ board and the 290X I was using (DisplayPort). Like the 290, this 480 doesn't seem to want to produce video from DP but the DVI works fine. Because of this, I have been forced to use a secondary monitor to navigate BIOS menus and M-flash. Not awful, but not ideal either. This Polaris card never did anything like that on the Z170 board (also using DP).
3. USB - Can't really explain this one... my mouse works at boot time/BIOS but my keyboard does not. Settings indicate that all USB functions are enabled, yet the kb doesn't seem to work at all until windows is up and running. Could this be a port type issue?
4. Shut down - this one is weird too... occasionally, well most of the time, the computer will not shut down completely and the "CPU" debug LED will remain lit. When this happens, I need to do a hard reset and then manually shut it down. Super wonky, and I don't really know the cause of that yet.
5. SSD performance - Nit picking a bit here but my boot SSD doesn't seem to be quite as fast as it was when attached to the Z170 board's storage chipset. It's a PNY CS1311 so middle of the road, but I'm wondering if perhaps there is something else I can do to improve the performance aside from swapping ports.
Help on any or all of these would be appreciated. The computer seems to be fine once Windows 10 is running, but the POST and shut down issues are probably the most annoying.