**The BIOS Update Process**

When it comes to updating the BIOS on a computer, one might think that it's a straightforward process. However, as we'll soon discover, there are some nuances to consider. The author of this article has had their fair share of experiences with BIOS updates, and in this section, they will take us through the step-by-step process of how to update the BIOS.

The first step is to download the BIOS update file from the manufacturer's website. In this case, we're looking at an ASUS motherboard, specifically the Crosshair VIII Hero. Once the file has been downloaded, it's essential to have a separate flash chip, also known as a BIOS rom, which will be used to update the BIOS. The author mentions that on some ASUS motherboards, there is a small white box around one of the USB SuperSpeed ports with the label "BIOS" - this is where we'll insert our bios file.

Before proceeding with the update, it's crucial to make sure we have all the necessary components: the motherboard, a power source (PSU), and in some cases, additional hardware like a graphics card. In the author's case, they had to test their system on a cardboard box before attempting the update, as a failed BIOS update can result in a non-functional board.

The next step is to run a tool called "BIOS Renamer," which will rename the BIOS file to match the expected format of the motherboard. After that, we need to hold down the reset button (usually marked by a small swoopy arrow) for about five minutes, or until it starts blinking. This process can take several minutes, and the author notes that some users may experience faster power-down times.

If everything goes according to plan, the BIOS update should complete successfully, and the board will be ready for use. However, in the author's case, they encountered an unexpected issue: the board would shut down during the update process. This was a concerning development, as it suggested that there might be a problem with the motherboard or its components.

**Troubleshooting**

To resolve this issue, the author decided to try again with a different motherboard - in this case, their Crosshair VIII Hero, but with a different CPU and RAM configuration. The goal was to see if the problem was specific to one particular setup or if it could be replicated on another board. By testing the system on multiple configurations, we can identify any potential issues and determine whether they are hardware-related or software-specific.

The author notes that in their experience, failing to test a new system thoroughly before installing it in a production environment is common among veteran builders. They also emphasize the importance of verifying the components before proceeding with the build, as this can often prevent problems from arising later on.

**The Importance of Testing**

In the world of computer hardware and software, testing is an essential part of the development process. It allows us to identify potential issues early on and make necessary adjustments to ensure that our products work as expected. By taking the time to test new components or systems, we can avoid costly mistakes and provide a better experience for our customers.

In this article, we've seen firsthand how important testing is in the world of computer hardware. Whether it's updating the BIOS or testing a new system, there are often potential issues that arise along the way. By taking the time to test thoroughly, we can prevent problems from occurring and ensure that our products meet our high standards.

**The Author's Experience**

As an experienced computer enthusiast and hardware reviewer, I've had my fair share of experiences with BIOS updates and testing systems. In this article, I'll take you through some of the more interesting and challenging aspects of this process. From updating the BIOS to troubleshooting issues, I hope to provide a comprehensive overview of what it takes to build a reliable and high-performance computer.

Throughout this article, I'll be sharing my own experiences and insights on how to update the BIOS and troubleshoot common issues. Whether you're an experienced builder or just starting out in the world of computer hardware, I hope that my tips and advice will be helpful in your journey.

**The Power of Testing**

Testing is a critical component of any computer build or system upgrade. By taking the time to test thoroughly, we can identify potential issues early on and make necessary adjustments to ensure that our products work as expected.

In this article, I'll be emphasizing the importance of testing and providing tips and advice for how to do it effectively. Whether you're building a new PC or upgrading an existing system, testing is essential to ensuring that your components are compatible and working together smoothly.

By following my guidance and taking the time to test thoroughly, you can avoid costly mistakes and ensure that your computer build is successful from start to finish.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know we spend a lot of time talking about how to build a computer and all that stuff but you know we never really talked about how to prepare for building that computer so today's video is really directed at you person who just got your first gaming PC parts for Christmas or your wife or your anniversary or that you got your wife but let's throw over today's video is about I forgot who I am hi I'm Jace - sense and often I teach you guys how to build a computer but you know what I failed to do I have failed to teach you how to prepare to build that computer so that's what we're gonna do today with these parts never leave home in a hurried wonder did I forget to close the garage door with Wi-Fi enabled Liftmaster garage door openers in the mic you app smart technology and wireless connectivity mean you always know the status of your doors while the amazon key capabilities mean you'll never miss another delivery to see the full lineup of garage door openers and features from Liftmaster and learn how to get my cue connected click the link in the description below now we've showed you plenty of videos and tutorials in the past of how to build a computer specifically how to build the tower part but you know there are some things you can do in preparation and prior to putting everything in your tower that would get you the best results so we're trying to kind of talk about that today some of the workflow of testing all your parts making sure everything works kind of show you what the minimal like plugins that you need to get all that going and I'm speaking directly to the first-time builder or maybe someone that hasn't done it in a really long time or maybe someone that's just never actually done this before because these are parts that I actually have to test I these are for a build coming up that you guys probably have not seen by the time this goes live so I don't want to talk about what built that is but it is another custom casemod type build sort of like the destiny to but a whole different video game that we modeled it after so I have to test these parts and I don't want to do that with it in the system so we're gonna go ahead and kind of walk through that now the parts that we're testing here I want to see if it'll work with this motherboard this is 64 gigabytes of g.skill try it at Z RGB DC I don't know what the DC part means but I digress there - 6 no 32 gig sticks right these are 2 32 gig sticks yeah this is a 64 gigabyte kit so - 32 gigabyte sticks completely unnecessary but I haven't gotten these to work in any system I've tried yet we have got a 39 50 X the one that I told you guys that AMD didn't send us fortunately Micro Center was willing to help us out by setting one of this is one of these aside so that we can get it test it give you our opinions on it so a huge thank you to Micro Center for sponsoring this CPU I'll put a link down the description below where you guys can actually go and check it out find the nearest micro Center to you I'm telling you right now if you live near a micro Center that you can physically go into you are not going to find better prices than micro Center anyone that's been there knows exactly what I'm talking about with yes I'm telling you the deal so the bundle deals alone are insane so we've also got the ROG crosshair eight impact this is that DTX motherboard we kind of did an overview of not that long ago and I told you I was gonna do a build with this with the 39 50 X this was sent over to us by Asus and basically it's just ITX that's a little bit longer so there's that for a graphics card I'm fairly certain this is what I'm gonna stick with I haven't made a final decision yet but this is a 27 be super not a 20 atti or 2080 super any of that not every build I do has to be the top top top poppity top top top of the tops this right here is a revolt Pro from fan text this is a power supply that's actually capable of running two motherboards at the same time I haven't decided if this is the one I'm gonna use in the build that this is all going to be going in but nonetheless what I'm gonna show you today it doesn't matter what power supply it is obviously it's the process of testing that matters now often times you're gonna hear people talk about doing a bench test so what we're gonna do out here is we're gonna show you the bare minimum to get the system up and running and booted and potentially even get windows installed if you kind of want to get a head start oftentimes you can install Windows during this phase as well so that you are able to kind of be up and running faster once your tower is put together but we're not gonna be doing that today I'm not gonna be testing any drives today because I don't have any drives to put in this build yet so I have to source those but we are only going to need our motherboard out of here we don't need anything else we don't need any of the SATA cables out of here unless you're testing your drive that's a SATA Drive - you would install your MDOT - in there obviously and we're just gonna take this guy and go poop right there in the box it's not that hard right let's give me a lot of debate about whether or not you should put an anti-static bag down and then put it down but a lot of people would argue - that the bag is designed to stop EST or ESD or electrostatic discharge inside the bag and not the outside so just put it down the cardboard unless you want to hear people complain - for because they like to complain alright so in preparation of the motherboard you might notice here I put these clips back on for the sake of demonstration right now this is gonna be specific to AMD if you're using C an Intel CPU the retention is the same and - like for all the different coolers that hold down is gonna be the same so AMD is known for having two different types there's a clip type which has a basically a metal bar that will go through the cooler and just clip on either one of these Barb's you can see that these are kind of like little hooks you'll find that some coolers use the hook style like that some don't I'm going to be doing a test right now by just using one of these rate style coolers so these are caller these are called Wraith and it's already got pre-applied thermal paste and they screw down screws right here which screw into the backplate so to prepare this cooler for its test or this motherboard I've got to remove the four screws holding down these AMD brackets but I'm gonna leave the backplate on because if you take a look at it there's a backplate right here it's gonna be screwing down to that so depending on the type of cooler that you're using if you're using an a IO or some sort of an air cooler or whatever this is gonna be the best time to get that all installed but if you're using a box cooler and that big if you got a box cool are available to you and you've got a big old air cooler that's going in the system you might want to install the air cooler after the fact because sometimes they can get in the way of some of the motherboard screws to hold down the motherboard to the actual case now if you're using an AMD CPU it's actually really really easy be gentle pins are located on the CPU itself where Intel CPU the pins are located on the motherboard so for AMD I move this little arm to the side there's a little tab that holds it down and then as you move it up you'll see the entire tray slides the best way to remember which way this goes the lettering at least for Rison anyway will always go horizontal or parallel with the chill socket namer though so it's a socket am four and that's where the latches see how the risin goes the same direction that's the easiest way to remember it once all the pins are seated it should go in there without any force or is like Paul and Kyle like to say zero insertion force push the lever down until it snaps and now the CPU is installed so now for our cooler screw them down I'll get all four threads sort of started but I won't bottom out the threads until all four have started to thread themselves it just makes it easier these are spring-loaded so you can just go until they bottom out so we now have our CPU installed as well as our cooler now the reason why I'm kind of this is very tutorial like where I'm sort of showing you how to install CPU and stuff is in the off chance that somebody watching this right now has never built a computer before and they're kind of going ok ok so that's how you install a CPU that's how you install an AMD CPU anyway because that's what I'm showing here but this is doing some of the work towards building your system because once you're done with this you're not gonna take this all back apart unless you're using a different cooler but then your CPU is still is gonna stay mounted you don't wanna take the CPU back out if you don't have to any time you remove the CPU whether it be Intel or AMD is a chance to bend a pin and then you're gonna have a bad time if you do that so you make sure that once it's in just leave it there's no point taking it out we now have to plug in the fan cable on this particular motherboard the CPU fan headers are down there right above them where the dim slot is next to the RAM on a full-size motherboard there'll be somewhere along the top usually on the top of the motherboard they'll be printed CPU CPU opt for optional so there usually will be one or two plug your cooler into that and now your cooler has power so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to install our Ram I'm kind of expecting when we test this to get a no post situation because like I said I have not found a system that this Ram will actually work in yet now when it comes to installing your Ram you'll notice that there's a notch and that notch is not perfectly in the middle that line right there and the heatsink is perfectly in the middle so you can see how offset it is you're just gonna line up the notch with the notch that's in the motherboard for the RAM slots you're gonna put the PCB edges into the groove for the RAM slot and as long as you're not lines up it's gonna take a little bit of force push it down to you get two clicks and that each of the mounting posts sometimes both sides will flip down so in this case only one did make sure it's fully seated then you're good to go and then just do the same thing with however many RAM sticks that you have now this particular motherboard only has two DIMM slots but you'll find your motherboard may have four they may have eight depending on if it's a thread ripper or next to 99 you'll want to refer to your manual as to which DIMM slots to use based on how many channel or how many ram sticks that you have to do what we're doing now to make sure that your motherboard and your CPU work you really only need one Ram slot occupied in this case I'm putting both in there cuz I want to see if this will work or not now if you have an Intel CPU you could actually boot it up now if you wanted once you plug in power because Intel CPUs with the exception of X 99 or X 299 or any X platform or Xeon has a GPU inside of the CPU and if no graphics card is present in the PCI Express slot by default the BIOS will enable that GPU which means that you could plug in your HDMI cable or your DisplayPort depending on whichever is on the back of your motherboard straight into the motherboard and actually get an image on the screen because we're using a rise in base CPU that's not the case unless it's a 2200 g-20 400 G 3200 gr 3400 G those four CPUs do have a GPU in them as well so we're gonna go ahead and add our graphics card to our little our little makeshift test bench here now this is the part where a lot of people freak out and they go oh my god you're gonna plug it into the PCI Express slot but you don't have a hold down bracket which means it's gonna flex and it's gonna break something that's true if you start like acting like a bull in a china shop and you start flailing around with it and then you could potentially damage the PCI Express port but we're not gonna do that today because we're not gonna do something stupid we're just gonna be gentle and easy with it for once yes but you see how I have my motherboard on the edge of the box like this the reason being is typically these two tabs are what will snap into the case to kind of support it and then the slot is held down with the retention tab and then a screw holding down this bracket so basically a three point three points of contact but for this case that's not gonna happen but I've got the motherboard on the edge like that that way those prongs can hang off the side but you want to leave it hanging over the edge like this because if it's pushed up even slightly and some of the pins aren't making contact you more than likely won't get any sort of a video output from your graphics card so all we need now to make sure our main components work the reason why I'm like I said not hooking up a drive is not just because I don't have one for this yet but because it's truly not necessary for this step the worst part about building a new computer is getting it all in your case and getting it all cable managed and all prettified and zip tied down and it's just you're like I look at my masterpiece and then you push the button and it power cycles or it turns itself off after a few seconds or it turns on or right back off all telltale signs of a pinched wire or just something is wrong mmm improperly seated Ram improperly see the GPU yeah it's happened a few times not that many times honestly you know in mass production there is an acceptable failure rate and DOA on these components that's considered like hey out of so many units ship that's expected X Y Z of them are gonna be bad and so what we're testing right now is that none of these are bad and I have not booted this CPU or this motherboard or this graphics card and I already said I've not got this Ram to work in any system yet so this is truly a bench test for me for these parts to make sure they work before I go through the problem of putting them all into the custom-built system we're doing so I took the 24 pin because this is a fully modular power supply and I plugged it into the motherboard first and have just left it kind of dangling there next I'm going to take my eight pin CPU power or in this case PCI Express power and we're gonna plug it into the graphics card that's a six pin and we got an eight pin for the 27 u super and then this is our eight pin power it's got an electrical tape on it cuz the last build I had it in I got tired of these separating while trying to plug them in so I take them together that is going to go into our eight pin power right there that's all we need to actually get this system up and running I don't have to make any jumper of pins on the motherboard to get this system to boot up because it has his power is a start button right there so our surface button so when I push that that's the same as a power button the exception of storage that's a computer that's a fully working computer theoretically we haven't booted it yet so now is where you gonna take your monitor if you've got one or even a TV will work if you're building this in your living room or something we run an HDMI cable to your graphics card or in this case we're gonna be running DisplayPort so we'll plug this in we have to plug in power for our power supply this particular power supply has a toggle switch for power to turn on and off like from this cable so I always turn that off before I plug it in then I turn it on and the first thing I'm looking for is if I get any lights on the motherboard as you can see I do have RGB lights that are illuminating on the side because this particular motherboard does have passive lighting that turns on when the system is off power supply is on we are now ready to see if we get a post I really don't know if we ringing an image 19:14 CC 92 c8 63 when I'm reading are the codes on the back it's a normal reboot that happens when it first does this boot it trains memory and then it restarts that member ranlo didn't come back on this is why we bench tests because we want to do any troubleshooting we get at the start rather than later see nothing happens now so I'm gonna go and do a clear CMOS now CMOS clear is going to be dependent on your motherboard fortunately on the 8 on the Asus board 1/2 here there's a button on the back so because I pushed that and held it everything shut off it's clearing all of the the BIOS and resetting everything when I let go or then lights back up so you can see the QR code or the Q code that's telling me what stage we're in on the posts or self tests and it turned right back off and did the same thing I'm gonna suspect right now cuz it's doing that I'm gonna turn off my power supply and I suspect what's happening here is it's that memory so because I have extra memory I'm gonna change those dims power back on 63 so that just past memory it's doing its restart that's not a good sign Jewry has bad motherboard I'm kinda glad this happened to be honest this is exactly why you do this the worst time to deal with this and the most frustrating time is when your system is all put together and you're just like yeah I get to play games now then this happens I'm gonna undo the graphics card but Jay won't work without graphics I know but I want to see if our boot issue stops if I take the graphics card out if it will then just boot and give me a QR code of like hey no graphics then we might know that that's the problem we switched the mam mammaries we switched the mammaries so we know it's not that yeah just turn so puffing in might be cpu related that would be sucky that's the deepest thing we installed right that would be the worst thing - oh man don't even yeah stop it all right so the problem persists with this graphics card unplugged so I'm gonna say that this is probably fine what I'm gonna go ahead and do now is check the CPU so just dawned on us that we're using an x5 70 motherboard with the 39 50 X where the motherboard was sent to us long before the 39 50 X was launched so we think we might be having a BIOS issue here so I'm loading up a 3600 X which I happen to have which realistically nobody else going to this is going to have but fortunately this motherboard does also have a BIOS flashback feature where if you find yourself in this situation you would be able to update the BIOS without even having a CPU installed one more try yep see that's shut down that shutdown is what's worrying me two different CPUs without the motherboard still shuts down different Ram the only common denominator and this is the motherboard why don't we try the BIOS flashback first we say all right so I just went to my desktop downloaded the latest BIOS for this motherboard which is quite a bit newer than the one on here I'm assuming just because the BIOS is actually written on the box which bios of ships with so this is only a couple weeks old actually now on the ASUS motherboards you'll see that there's a white box around one of the USB SuperSpeed ports that says BIOS that's the one you're gonna put the card into when you download the file it's gonna have a file and then it's gonna have another like little application called BIOS renamer and when you click that it's gonna rename the BIOS to the file name that this motherboard is looking for to say hey that's the BIOS I'm gonna replace it with that all you do now is you hold down the BIOS looks like a reset button to a little little swoopy arrows you're gonna hold that down till it starts to blink and then let go when it's done blinking the BIOS flash back is done now you can do this without a motherboard no you need a motherboard you can do this without a CPU without memory and without a graphics card you just need the motherboard and the power hooked up to it so blinking for about five minutes which it says is normal so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna power cycle the whole motherboard power off power on and let's see if that made a difference if it does its power down see it's the powering down that has me concerned because normally whenever I have BIOS problems it just hangs it doesn't shut down and then all the buttons lock up so this was a it did it faster clear CMOS one last time if this doesn't work then we'll switch the motherboard out ya see it just wait just clicks off and it's doing that with a different CPU all right here's we're gonna do everything you just saw me do with another motherboard alright so we're back to where we were only we're on a full-size crosshair eight board this is a crosshair eight hero and see if it gives us a picture this is also the 3600 X naught the 39 50 X because I want to see all right so we just got past the point we were oh yeah we're gonna need a video right now oh yeah you're right 92 there see right there so we're not done yet though we got one more thing to do that's to see if the 39 50 X will work on this BIOS out of the box it's 5050 at this point because no it's 30 million through the well it's just cuz I know I had this motherboard since before the 39 50 X was out 99 to a to d7 now there's so unfortunately our DTX boy fell over unfortunately our DTX board broke that's why you test bench stuff for bench test stuff that's why you bench test your stuff before you put it in your system so I just took you guys along for the ride or something I had to do anyways you'll see it and build guides and stuff if we fail to mention like testing it on the cardboard box whatever like this a lot of people veteran builders and stuff will be like oh my god you need to teach newbies they need to test it first because you just saw we went through troubleshooting okay we took the graphics card out is still powered cycled switch the RAM switch the cpu all the same stuff the exception of switching out the PSU which in my case I knew worked if it was a bad PSU if you wanna know the truth usually what happens it'll click off right away or not power on at all so in this instance the only thing left after updating the BIOS on this board was still the board so I'll be reaching out to a suits asking for a replacement board for this because I do need it for a bills that we're doing this wasn't just for the sake of the video this was me legitimately testing this stuff and you guys got to see what happens when something goes wrong thank God hey Phil we actually did something and taught someone something it just sucks no I got away from your motherboard it's gonna take till after the holidays I can still continue with the bill because there's lots of modifying and stuff to the case we got to do that doesn't require that to be in there in fact it shouldn't be in there when I'm cutting and let's just say using fire in this one test your stuff guys it's a lot easier when it's like this then when it's in a system especially if it were plumbed in like that if I hadn't tested that stuff first and I would have been terrible alright guys thanks for watching happy holidays I hope you guys got all the PC parts you hoped you got for Christmas and if you didn't get those parts well go steal them I don't know maybe don't do that that's bad I can't say that go donate plasma I don't know sperm bank whatever make moneyyou know we spend a lot of time talking about how to build a computer and all that stuff but you know we never really talked about how to prepare for building that computer so today's video is really directed at you person who just got your first gaming PC parts for Christmas or your wife or your anniversary or that you got your wife but let's throw over today's video is about I forgot who I am hi I'm Jace - sense and often I teach you guys how to build a computer but you know what I failed to do I have failed to teach you how to prepare to build that computer so that's what we're gonna do today with these parts never leave home in a hurried wonder did I forget to close the garage door with Wi-Fi enabled Liftmaster garage door openers in the mic you app smart technology and wireless connectivity mean you always know the status of your doors while the amazon key capabilities mean you'll never miss another delivery to see the full lineup of garage door openers and features from Liftmaster and learn how to get my cue connected click the link in the description below now we've showed you plenty of videos and tutorials in the past of how to build a computer specifically how to build the tower part but you know there are some things you can do in preparation and prior to putting everything in your tower that would get you the best results so we're trying to kind of talk about that today some of the workflow of testing all your parts making sure everything works kind of show you what the minimal like plugins that you need to get all that going and I'm speaking directly to the first-time builder or maybe someone that hasn't done it in a really long time or maybe someone that's just never actually done this before because these are parts that I actually have to test I these are for a build coming up that you guys probably have not seen by the time this goes live so I don't want to talk about what built that is but it is another custom casemod type build sort of like the destiny to but a whole different video game that we modeled it after so I have to test these parts and I don't want to do that with it in the system so we're gonna go ahead and kind of walk through that now the parts that we're testing here I want to see if it'll work with this motherboard this is 64 gigabytes of g.skill try it at Z RGB DC I don't know what the DC part means but I digress there - 6 no 32 gig sticks right these are 2 32 gig sticks yeah this is a 64 gigabyte kit so - 32 gigabyte sticks completely unnecessary but I haven't gotten these to work in any system I've tried yet we have got a 39 50 X the one that I told you guys that AMD didn't send us fortunately Micro Center was willing to help us out by setting one of this is one of these aside so that we can get it test it give you our opinions on it so a huge thank you to Micro Center for sponsoring this CPU I'll put a link down the description below where you guys can actually go and check it out find the nearest micro Center to you I'm telling you right now if you live near a micro Center that you can physically go into you are not going to find better prices than micro Center anyone that's been there knows exactly what I'm talking about with yes I'm telling you the deal so the bundle deals alone are insane so we've also got the ROG crosshair eight impact this is that DTX motherboard we kind of did an overview of not that long ago and I told you I was gonna do a build with this with the 39 50 X this was sent over to us by Asus and basically it's just ITX that's a little bit longer so there's that for a graphics card I'm fairly certain this is what I'm gonna stick with I haven't made a final decision yet but this is a 27 be super not a 20 atti or 2080 super any of that not every build I do has to be the top top top poppity top top top of the tops this right here is a revolt Pro from fan text this is a power supply that's actually capable of running two motherboards at the same time I haven't decided if this is the one I'm gonna use in the build that this is all going to be going in but nonetheless what I'm gonna show you today it doesn't matter what power supply it is obviously it's the process of testing that matters now often times you're gonna hear people talk about doing a bench test so what we're gonna do out here is we're gonna show you the bare minimum to get the system up and running and booted and potentially even get windows installed if you kind of want to get a head start oftentimes you can install Windows during this phase as well so that you are able to kind of be up and running faster once your tower is put together but we're not gonna be doing that today I'm not gonna be testing any drives today because I don't have any drives to put in this build yet so I have to source those but we are only going to need our motherboard out of here we don't need anything else we don't need any of the SATA cables out of here unless you're testing your drive that's a SATA Drive - you would install your MDOT - in there obviously and we're just gonna take this guy and go poop right there in the box it's not that hard right let's give me a lot of debate about whether or not you should put an anti-static bag down and then put it down but a lot of people would argue - that the bag is designed to stop EST or ESD or electrostatic discharge inside the bag and not the outside so just put it down the cardboard unless you want to hear people complain - for because they like to complain alright so in preparation of the motherboard you might notice here I put these clips back on for the sake of demonstration right now this is gonna be specific to AMD if you're using C an Intel CPU the retention is the same and - like for all the different coolers that hold down is gonna be the same so AMD is known for having two different types there's a clip type which has a basically a metal bar that will go through the cooler and just clip on either one of these Barb's you can see that these are kind of like little hooks you'll find that some coolers use the hook style like that some don't I'm going to be doing a test right now by just using one of these rate style coolers so these are caller these are called Wraith and it's already got pre-applied thermal paste and they screw down screws right here which screw into the backplate so to prepare this cooler for its test or this motherboard I've got to remove the four screws holding down these AMD brackets but I'm gonna leave the backplate on because if you take a look at it there's a backplate right here it's gonna be screwing down to that so depending on the type of cooler that you're using if you're using an a IO or some sort of an air cooler or whatever this is gonna be the best time to get that all installed but if you're using a box cooler and that big if you got a box cool are available to you and you've got a big old air cooler that's going in the system you might want to install the air cooler after the fact because sometimes they can get in the way of some of the motherboard screws to hold down the motherboard to the actual case now if you're using an AMD CPU it's actually really really easy be gentle pins are located on the CPU itself where Intel CPU the pins are located on the motherboard so for AMD I move this little arm to the side there's a little tab that holds it down and then as you move it up you'll see the entire tray slides the best way to remember which way this goes the lettering at least for Rison anyway will always go horizontal or parallel with the chill socket namer though so it's a socket am four and that's where the latches see how the risin goes the same direction that's the easiest way to remember it once all the pins are seated it should go in there without any force or is like Paul and Kyle like to say zero insertion force push the lever down until it snaps and now the CPU is installed so now for our cooler screw them down I'll get all four threads sort of started but I won't bottom out the threads until all four have started to thread themselves it just makes it easier these are spring-loaded so you can just go until they bottom out so we now have our CPU installed as well as our cooler now the reason why I'm kind of this is very tutorial like where I'm sort of showing you how to install CPU and stuff is in the off chance that somebody watching this right now has never built a computer before and they're kind of going ok ok so that's how you install a CPU that's how you install an AMD CPU anyway because that's what I'm showing here but this is doing some of the work towards building your system because once you're done with this you're not gonna take this all back apart unless you're using a different cooler but then your CPU is still is gonna stay mounted you don't wanna take the CPU back out if you don't have to any time you remove the CPU whether it be Intel or AMD is a chance to bend a pin and then you're gonna have a bad time if you do that so you make sure that once it's in just leave it there's no point taking it out we now have to plug in the fan cable on this particular motherboard the CPU fan headers are down there right above them where the dim slot is next to the RAM on a full-size motherboard there'll be somewhere along the top usually on the top of the motherboard they'll be printed CPU CPU opt for optional so there usually will be one or two plug your cooler into that and now your cooler has power so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to install our Ram I'm kind of expecting when we test this to get a no post situation because like I said I have not found a system that this Ram will actually work in yet now when it comes to installing your Ram you'll notice that there's a notch and that notch is not perfectly in the middle that line right there and the heatsink is perfectly in the middle so you can see how offset it is you're just gonna line up the notch with the notch that's in the motherboard for the RAM slots you're gonna put the PCB edges into the groove for the RAM slot and as long as you're not lines up it's gonna take a little bit of force push it down to you get two clicks and that each of the mounting posts sometimes both sides will flip down so in this case only one did make sure it's fully seated then you're good to go and then just do the same thing with however many RAM sticks that you have now this particular motherboard only has two DIMM slots but you'll find your motherboard may have four they may have eight depending on if it's a thread ripper or next to 99 you'll want to refer to your manual as to which DIMM slots to use based on how many channel or how many ram sticks that you have to do what we're doing now to make sure that your motherboard and your CPU work you really only need one Ram slot occupied in this case I'm putting both in there cuz I want to see if this will work or not now if you have an Intel CPU you could actually boot it up now if you wanted once you plug in power because Intel CPUs with the exception of X 99 or X 299 or any X platform or Xeon has a GPU inside of the CPU and if no graphics card is present in the PCI Express slot by default the BIOS will enable that GPU which means that you could plug in your HDMI cable or your DisplayPort depending on whichever is on the back of your motherboard straight into the motherboard and actually get an image on the screen because we're using a rise in base CPU that's not the case unless it's a 2200 g-20 400 G 3200 gr 3400 G those four CPUs do have a GPU in them as well so we're gonna go ahead and add our graphics card to our little our little makeshift test bench here now this is the part where a lot of people freak out and they go oh my god you're gonna plug it into the PCI Express slot but you don't have a hold down bracket which means it's gonna flex and it's gonna break something that's true if you start like acting like a bull in a china shop and you start flailing around with it and then you could potentially damage the PCI Express port but we're not gonna do that today because we're not gonna do something stupid we're just gonna be gentle and easy with it for once yes but you see how I have my motherboard on the edge of the box like this the reason being is typically these two tabs are what will snap into the case to kind of support it and then the slot is held down with the retention tab and then a screw holding down this bracket so basically a three point three points of contact but for this case that's not gonna happen but I've got the motherboard on the edge like that that way those prongs can hang off the side but you want to leave it hanging over the edge like this because if it's pushed up even slightly and some of the pins aren't making contact you more than likely won't get any sort of a video output from your graphics card so all we need now to make sure our main components work the reason why I'm like I said not hooking up a drive is not just because I don't have one for this yet but because it's truly not necessary for this step the worst part about building a new computer is getting it all in your case and getting it all cable managed and all prettified and zip tied down and it's just you're like I look at my masterpiece and then you push the button and it power cycles or it turns itself off after a few seconds or it turns on or right back off all telltale signs of a pinched wire or just something is wrong mmm improperly seated Ram improperly see the GPU yeah it's happened a few times not that many times honestly you know in mass production there is an acceptable failure rate and DOA on these components that's considered like hey out of so many units ship that's expected X Y Z of them are gonna be bad and so what we're testing right now is that none of these are bad and I have not booted this CPU or this motherboard or this graphics card and I already said I've not got this Ram to work in any system yet so this is truly a bench test for me for these parts to make sure they work before I go through the problem of putting them all into the custom-built system we're doing so I took the 24 pin because this is a fully modular power supply and I plugged it into the motherboard first and have just left it kind of dangling there next I'm going to take my eight pin CPU power or in this case PCI Express power and we're gonna plug it into the graphics card that's a six pin and we got an eight pin for the 27 u super and then this is our eight pin power it's got an electrical tape on it cuz the last build I had it in I got tired of these separating while trying to plug them in so I take them together that is going to go into our eight pin power right there that's all we need to actually get this system up and running I don't have to make any jumper of pins on the motherboard to get this system to boot up because it has his power is a start button right there so our surface button so when I push that that's the same as a power button the exception of storage that's a computer that's a fully working computer theoretically we haven't booted it yet so now is where you gonna take your monitor if you've got one or even a TV will work if you're building this in your living room or something we run an HDMI cable to your graphics card or in this case we're gonna be running DisplayPort so we'll plug this in we have to plug in power for our power supply this particular power supply has a toggle switch for power to turn on and off like from this cable so I always turn that off before I plug it in then I turn it on and the first thing I'm looking for is if I get any lights on the motherboard as you can see I do have RGB lights that are illuminating on the side because this particular motherboard does have passive lighting that turns on when the system is off power supply is on we are now ready to see if we get a post I really don't know if we ringing an image 19:14 CC 92 c8 63 when I'm reading are the codes on the back it's a normal reboot that happens when it first does this boot it trains memory and then it restarts that member ranlo didn't come back on this is why we bench tests because we want to do any troubleshooting we get at the start rather than later see nothing happens now so I'm gonna go and do a clear CMOS now CMOS clear is going to be dependent on your motherboard fortunately on the 8 on the Asus board 1/2 here there's a button on the back so because I pushed that and held it everything shut off it's clearing all of the the BIOS and resetting everything when I let go or then lights back up so you can see the QR code or the Q code that's telling me what stage we're in on the posts or self tests and it turned right back off and did the same thing I'm gonna suspect right now cuz it's doing that I'm gonna turn off my power supply and I suspect what's happening here is it's that memory so because I have extra memory I'm gonna change those dims power back on 63 so that just past memory it's doing its restart that's not a good sign Jewry has bad motherboard I'm kinda glad this happened to be honest this is exactly why you do this the worst time to deal with this and the most frustrating time is when your system is all put together and you're just like yeah I get to play games now then this happens I'm gonna undo the graphics card but Jay won't work without graphics I know but I want to see if our boot issue stops if I take the graphics card out if it will then just boot and give me a QR code of like hey no graphics then we might know that that's the problem we switched the mam mammaries we switched the mammaries so we know it's not that yeah just turn so puffing in might be cpu related that would be sucky that's the deepest thing we installed right that would be the worst thing - oh man don't even yeah stop it all right so the problem persists with this graphics card unplugged so I'm gonna say that this is probably fine what I'm gonna go ahead and do now is check the CPU so just dawned on us that we're using an x5 70 motherboard with the 39 50 X where the motherboard was sent to us long before the 39 50 X was launched so we think we might be having a BIOS issue here so I'm loading up a 3600 X which I happen to have which realistically nobody else going to this is going to have but fortunately this motherboard does also have a BIOS flashback feature where if you find yourself in this situation you would be able to update the BIOS without even having a CPU installed one more try yep see that's shut down that shutdown is what's worrying me two different CPUs without the motherboard still shuts down different Ram the only common denominator and this is the motherboard why don't we try the BIOS flashback first we say all right so I just went to my desktop downloaded the latest BIOS for this motherboard which is quite a bit newer than the one on here I'm assuming just because the BIOS is actually written on the box which bios of ships with so this is only a couple weeks old actually now on the ASUS motherboards you'll see that there's a white box around one of the USB SuperSpeed ports that says BIOS that's the one you're gonna put the card into when you download the file it's gonna have a file and then it's gonna have another like little application called BIOS renamer and when you click that it's gonna rename the BIOS to the file name that this motherboard is looking for to say hey that's the BIOS I'm gonna replace it with that all you do now is you hold down the BIOS looks like a reset button to a little little swoopy arrows you're gonna hold that down till it starts to blink and then let go when it's done blinking the BIOS flash back is done now you can do this without a motherboard no you need a motherboard you can do this without a CPU without memory and without a graphics card you just need the motherboard and the power hooked up to it so blinking for about five minutes which it says is normal so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna power cycle the whole motherboard power off power on and let's see if that made a difference if it does its power down see it's the powering down that has me concerned because normally whenever I have BIOS problems it just hangs it doesn't shut down and then all the buttons lock up so this was a it did it faster clear CMOS one last time if this doesn't work then we'll switch the motherboard out ya see it just wait just clicks off and it's doing that with a different CPU all right here's we're gonna do everything you just saw me do with another motherboard alright so we're back to where we were only we're on a full-size crosshair eight board this is a crosshair eight hero and see if it gives us a picture this is also the 3600 X naught the 39 50 X because I want to see all right so we just got past the point we were oh yeah we're gonna need a video right now oh yeah you're right 92 there see right there so we're not done yet though we got one more thing to do that's to see if the 39 50 X will work on this BIOS out of the box it's 5050 at this point because no it's 30 million through the well it's just cuz I know I had this motherboard since before the 39 50 X was out 99 to a to d7 now there's so unfortunately our DTX boy fell over unfortunately our DTX board broke that's why you test bench stuff for bench test stuff that's why you bench test your stuff before you put it in your system so I just took you guys along for the ride or something I had to do anyways you'll see it and build guides and stuff if we fail to mention like testing it on the cardboard box whatever like this a lot of people veteran builders and stuff will be like oh my god you need to teach newbies they need to test it first because you just saw we went through troubleshooting okay we took the graphics card out is still powered cycled switch the RAM switch the cpu all the same stuff the exception of switching out the PSU which in my case I knew worked if it was a bad PSU if you wanna know the truth usually what happens it'll click off right away or not power on at all so in this instance the only thing left after updating the BIOS on this board was still the board so I'll be reaching out to a suits asking for a replacement board for this because I do need it for a bills that we're doing this wasn't just for the sake of the video this was me legitimately testing this stuff and you guys got to see what happens when something goes wrong thank God hey Phil we actually did something and taught someone something it just sucks no I got away from your motherboard it's gonna take till after the holidays I can still continue with the bill because there's lots of modifying and stuff to the case we got to do that doesn't require that to be in there in fact it shouldn't be in there when I'm cutting and let's just say using fire in this one test your stuff guys it's a lot easier when it's like this then when it's in a system especially if it were plumbed in like that if I hadn't tested that stuff first and I would have been terrible alright guys thanks for watching happy holidays I hope you guys got all the PC parts you hoped you got for Christmas and if you didn't get those parts well go steal them I don't know maybe don't do that that's bad I can't say that go donate plasma I don't know sperm bank whatever make money\n"