a month ago
G'day,
I just bought the Tuf Gaming B650-Plus Wifi to use for photo and video editing. Not heavy stuff, this is lots of ancient 1080x720 DV footage.
I also got a Ryzen 7 9800X, 32 mb of crucial ram, and a samsung NVME drive. Nothing is installed yet, apart from one fan to indicate that it has powered on.
I did the BIOS flash, because the installed BIOS was about a year old and probaby did not support 9000-series Ryzen That seemed to go fine - I saw the expected sequence of LED flashes and the USB drive also lit up. It lasted 5 mins and the LED went off as expected. (I made sure it was FAT32, MBR.)
What I want to do now is test that the motherboard will POST and that the Q-Leds will report an error state. Basically, just make sure the thing at least powers on before I start adding components.
However, I see no indication that it is working. The fan does not spin up, no LEDs glow. So my very basic novice question is: Are my expectations incorrect? Do I need to populate the mobo before I can expect it to begin POST?
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a month ago
Hello TaffVale
You don't have to install the motherboard in the case to see if it will post, but you will have to:
1) Make sure the motherboard is set up on a nonconductive surface such as the box it came in.
2) Connect the 24-pin main power cable and 8-pin cpu power cable.
3) Install the cpu and cpu cooler.
4) Install one stick of memory in the A-2 slot.
5) Connect your monitor cable to the motherboard HDMI or Displayport output.
6) To start it up, short the two PWRSW pins with a small metal object such as a small screwdriver or paper clip.
a month ago
Hello TaffVale
You don't have to install the motherboard in the case to see if it will post, but you will have to:
1) Make sure the motherboard is set up on a nonconductive surface such as the box it came in.
2) Connect the 24-pin main power cable and 8-pin cpu power cable.
3) Install the cpu and cpu cooler.
4) Install one stick of memory in the A-2 slot.
5) Connect your monitor cable to the motherboard HDMI or Displayport output.
6) To start it up, short the two PWRSW pins with a small metal object such as a small screwdriver or paper clip.
4 weeks ago
Thank you very much for your clear instructions. Doing it now.
4 weeks ago - last edited 4 weeks ago
Ok, make sure the power supply cable is disconnected until everything is installed.
4 weeks ago
Went fine once I figured out how to attach the fans to the heatsink (doy).
This'll make you laugh. I've worked in computers for almost 40 years, for DEC, Compaq, HP, and Dell. Mostly creating the repair and assembly instructions, and bench testing the procedures. The biggest thing I worked on was a 2048-node Linux supercompute cluster.
And the first time I build a Desktop, I can't figure it out 😂.
Sincerely, many thanks for the help! Much appreciated.
4 weeks ago - last edited 4 weeks ago
You're welcome
Awesome, sounds like everything is going good so far.