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I once bricked a motherboard with a bad flash, probably around 2012. I ended up desoldering the SPI flash and reprogramming it from another computer. Worked. In hindsight, it was quicker to do that than to go through the "front door" with the manufacturer-provided utilities.
Maybe they should just leave a JTAG header somewhere on there.
How does the new setup compare to your Mac Studio, after you've dialed the power limit back to 105W?
So it'll be nice for times when I need the power, but I definitely won't let this system stay on 24x7.
I updated my asus mainboard recently too. It was straightforward: Copy the new firmware image into the efi partition somewhere. Reboot. Select the efi fat32 partition and the firmware blob therein in ez flash. Update. Why format an usb stick when there is already a perfectly good fat32 partition lying around?
Some BIOSes (Gigabyte, I think) will also read NTFS, so if you've got a Windows install, that's another easy option.
Maybe it's just that the last motherboard I got (MSI, and ... it was a newegg refurb), but the last PC I built was BY FAR the worse experience ever. - RAM: only 2 of four slots worked, couldn't install in the "optimal" bank setting, just to get it to boot. Tried with two different stick brands, which various sites said would be compatible - Ryzen 5600G needed a bios update to ... kinda ... get work. The HDMI does not…
Refurb often means previously broken and hopefully fixed; sometimes it just means returned, but the box wasn't nice enough to sell as open boxed. Looks like your board probably still had issues after refurbishment. It would probably have been better to return it when you first got it, although newegg return processing isn't always easy. It's hard to be patient, but buying parts after they've been out long enough to g…
After a few weeks the 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port stopped working, until I resoldered that capacitor.
Then a few months later it stopped working again, as one of the motherboard traces was also damaged and I couldn't repair it. Had to use a separate network card from that point on.
I didn't return the motherboard because of the hassle... it wasn't the end of the world using a different NIC.
I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates. The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to…
Similarly, I broke idrac on a Dell sever because I did not follow the proper upgrade path. I just assumed that the latest bios was good and the server happily bricked itsefl
I updated my asus mainboard recently too. It was straightforward: Copy the new firmware image into the efi partition somewhere. Reboot. Select the efi fat32 partition and the firmware blob therein in ez flash. Update. Why format an usb stick when there is already a perfectly good fat32 partition lying around?
Some BIOSes (Gigabyte, I think) will also read NTFS, so if you've got a Windows install, that's another easy option.
(Yet another example of the unfairness of the playing field for non-MS OSes).
Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS https://fwupd.org/ > and make firmware updates as simple as 'fwupdmgr update'.
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Anecdote: With me using my computer, 2 x 27" QHD 144Hz monitors, my AMD GPU is using 28W, while the CPU is using 18W. (Radeon RX 6700XT 12GB, Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core) I know the Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000X use a lot more power, as they are designed to pull power and use all available thermal headroom all day!
Which number are you looking at? 18 W idle for a 5900X is very low. 30-40 W is typical for these. Your system is probably not configured correctly, is using slow RAM or you're looking at something other than package power. GPU idle power seems quite high though, but as I understand most AMD GPUs struggle with power management with more than one monitor connected (no experience here, last AMD GPU was 2012).
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Higher idle power consumption is more common on AMD CPUs (I think it's inherent to their design). I don't think intel CPUs consume nearly as much power when idle. Oddly enough, AMD GPUs also have the same problem under certain conditions (multiple monitors, or high refresh rates can result in 100w idle GPU power ) But I agree that the power consumption figures under load are a bit nuts, and intel/amd now seem to be e…
Anecdote: With me using my computer, 2 x 27" QHD 144Hz monitors, my AMD GPU is using 28W, while the CPU is using 18W. (Radeon RX 6700XT 12GB, Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core) I know the Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000X use a lot more power, as they are designed to pull power and use all available thermal headroom all day!
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I recently updated an MSI Z690-A to the latest BIOS in preparation for installing a 13th generation Intel. I downloaded the updated BIOS file, put it on a thumb drive, renamed it to "MSI.ROM," put the thumb drive into the "Flash BIOS" port, had the motherboard connected to ATX and CPU1 power only, no CPU, or RAM, or any other hardware installed, flipped on power, pressed the "Flash BIOS" button and everything worked…
Yeah I’ll give a +1 to MSI, their BIOS firmware updates have been nothing but smooth for me and I haven’t had to think much about which USB sticks I’ve used. I’m about 80% sure I’ve used a USB 3 stick at one point but can’t be certain