How much is the coupon?
Nvm read it

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on May 8 2020 09:39pm

Got damn that’s a expensive motherboard
Why not just get an asus tuf for half the price

mobo is the most future proof item. my old mobo read IDE drives(ParallelATA) and my new one read SerialATA has troubles reading old ide drives.
/e one must read all drives

This post was edited by Jarester on May 9 2020 05:29am

Well.... put the new parts in... no display. POST fine, Tried the RAM in different slots, and different sticks, etc. I also get green light on motherboard. I'm thinking some TC maybe leaked out and ran in the socket.
So I put old parts back in...everything runs fine. I had been worried that maybe the vid card crapped out or some such.

The only thing I didn't try is set the BIOS to defaults, which I probably should have tried. Anyways...done for today... will try again in a few days.

One good thing from all this... computer is hella clean now.




/e Well, just inspected the CPU for TC leakage... it looks clean as a whistle. So I'm resetting the BIOS now. I'm gonna wait till I get an 8 pin power extension cable. Had to stretch the 8 pin from the PSU pretty tight to get it to reach.
Leave it to ASUS to move the 8 pin connector on the mobo, about an inch to the left. :/
As soon as the extension cable gets here, I'll try it again. Now that the CPU cooler is mounted and the case is clean, it only takes me about 30 mins to swap it all out.

This post was edited by Ghot on May 9 2020 01:03pm

Future proud what the fuck is that?
It predicts the future?

very future proud. it means it's worth it to spend extra on cuz future proud.

Well I think I figured it out. I have DVI w/e going to the monitor and HDMI going to the TV. & years ago, during last upgrade, I did the same thing. I forgot to unplug the HDMI cable.
I called EVGA last time and they were helping me trouble shoot. The tech guy said, turn on your TV...so I did... there was my desktop on the TV.

Until you can get into the Nvidia control panel, and set the primary display, the vid card chooses what it thinks is the primary display.
I'm betting that's what happened this time. Well, my 8 pin extension cable will be coming on the 14th, so that's when I'll try again. LOL

I already reset the BIOS to defaults, so that should rule that out. Now I just have to remember to unhook the HDMI cable before I try to turn the comp on.
If I wasn't installing a new OS too with this upgrade, I could've just turned on the TV, gone into Nvidia control panel and set the primary to my Dell monitor.

This makes a lot of sense, cause the motherboard passed all the LED tests, the POST and threw up no beep codes or anything. I was pretty tired after cleaning the case of years worth of dust, and the Hyper 212 EVO install (crappy directions ofc), that I never even thought about the HDMI going to the TV.

I feel much better now.

This post was edited by Ghot on May 9 2020 07:07pm

But why a 400$ motherboard?

and thats why you get a board with a debug led

Great!. And I bet the debug LED will tell me if the BIOS isn't set to defaults or that I have an HDMI cable plugged into vid card. :/

Btw, it has 4 LEDs for debug, and board passes all of them but Boot...which it can't pass till I install an OS.