Questions tagged [motherboard]
The motherboard or mainboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system.
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Sleep power option is not available for my mining motherboard
I bought a mining motherboard B75USB BTC 1.2 with 12 PCI-E slots. In fact, I don't need its mining capabilities, I just looked for an 1155 MB since I had had a powerful enough 1155 CPU and a couple of ...
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Why doesn’t my HP Pavilion 590-p0318ng POST?
I had this PC (HP Pavilion 590-p0318ng) before buying a new setup. I only used the CPU, RAM and GPU from this PC.
Specs were: Intel i5-8400, 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz and a GTX 1050 Ti.
These parts are now ...
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Why does my USB flash drive only work on USB 2.0 ports and is not detected on USB 3.0/3.2 ports after Windows install?
Device Information:
Device: Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G3
Capacity: 128 GB
Interface: USB 3.2
Motherboard:
GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7
The USB flash drive is not functioning correctly when ...
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Cannot enter BIOS, system hangs upon pressing Delete on boot - Gigabyte Z690 UD AX (1.x)
I updated my BIOS today to the latest version. Meanwhile, Windows Update suggested I update Intel ME as an optional update, and I did. After that, I cannot enter the BIOS at all. When I press Delete ...
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Catastrophic Freeze on New 9950X3D System & Persistent POST Failure Loop on TRX40 System
I am dealing with a very complex scenario involving concurrent critical failures on two systems, and I am struggling to isolate the root cause, which may be a faulty PSU or concurrent motherboard ...
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Why does my PC turn on but no display, no USB power, CPU LED stuck red?
I’m facing a hardware issue that I haven’t been able to resolve despite extensive troubleshooting. I hope someone here can help me identify the root cause.
System Specifications
Motherboard: MSI B550 ...
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Z77P-D3 motherboard does not boot in UEFI but does support it (or not?)
I have a bootable disk (SATA), I tested it on a modern PC (UEFI only). OS boots (GRUB and systemd-boot tested).
But an old motherboard (Gigabyte Z77P-D3, revision unknown) doesn't work with it. It ...
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AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out [AMD Ryzen 5 2600]
I have a dual-boot system. An HDD and a SATA SSD for Windows and an NVMe SSD for Manjaro Linux.
Previously I had Windows on the HDD and SATA SSD, with a 200GB Linux partition on the HDD.
I've been ...
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Why won't PC post when using dual channel. I suspect (by trial) both my A channels are faulty
I built my first PC around March this year, 2025. Everything was mostly fine, but it sometimes (very few times) would freeze, mostly when using Chrome, and I would have to hard shutdown the PC and ...
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How to connect a SAS drive to a SATA motherboard?
I'd like to add 8TB DELL Exos 7E8 drives, model ST8000NM0185, to my servers.
I bought these SAS->SATA adapters to connect them, but the drives aren't detected by the BIOS.
I mainly use ASUS ...
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How do I repair the fan latching on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5?
My ThinkPad has been heating up pretty badly lately, so I decided it was about time to repaste the CPU and GPU.
Everything went as expected, except for one fan where I seem to have ripped off the ...
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Trying to determine the pinouts of an 8-pin HP EliteDesk 800 G6 SFF SATA power connector?
I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G6 SFF desktop, but it didn’t ship with the cable to power SATA disks. It is pretty hard to find such cable.
So I want to know what is the pinout of HP P160 connector. There ...
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Lenovo T14s Gen1 (AMD) reboots when booting any OS
I'm trying to troubleshoot my Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 1 (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U), which has developed a strange issue. While I can enter and navigate the BIOS settings perfectly fine, the laptop ...
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Identifying Slot on Motherboard
I am trying to identify what type of slot this is. I think it is either a M.2 or mSATA, but I do not know for sure as the motherboard does not explicitly tell me what it is. The only text next to is ...
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Can the dual-socket Asus KGPE-D16 really support 14 hard drives?
I am hoping to build a really large data storage system and I know the dual-socket Asus KGPE-D16 has 6 SATA ports with an additional eight if the user has a PIKE add-on card. Does this mean it can ...
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