Aorus X570 Build: A Timeline3 Days Ago: Sunday
The new MB is in the box and cables made up; it POSTs and boots to BIOS. BUT... The damn USB ports are now all flaky as hell; mouse freezes up and keyboard acting like there’s a key pressed and held most of he time.
This after it performed flawlessly on the bench for more than an hour while I puttered around setting up the fans and CPU pump and stuff.
It took half an hour of unplugging/replugging mouse/KB to complete a BIOS update... I can’t even get into the “Tweak” submenu to tune the OC.
Done all the usual troubleshooting; new mouse/KB, different PSU...
I’m on the road doing family stuff; when we get home I’ll strip it down to RAM & CPU... again.
mnem
Okay... I think I’ve bled enough for this bleeding edge. 3 Days Ago: Later Sunday
"Aorus X570 Pro WiFi MB latest BIOS; problems due to poor documentation. Posting this to save anybody else experiencing this behavior the grief of figuring it out by themselves the hard way. Manual does not clearly state this, but ALL management of the nvme drives on the Aorus X570 MBs like this one is done through the nvme RAID Management Console. This means that even if you have only one nvme drive, you will STILL need to "Enable nvme RAID Mode" (something that is pretty explicitly counter-intuitive) in the SATA Config submenu to enable nvme drive management AT ALL.
TL/DR version: Before you install your nvme drive(s), turn ON "nvme RAID MODE" in SATA Configuration submenu, EVEN IF INSTALLING ONLY A SINGLE DRIVE. BIOS will act flaky like this until it scans the nvne drives and knows what to do with them; getting to that point with the BIOS behaving like this is an exercise in frustration."It was the effing nvme/M.2 drives. Either slot occupied makes it do this.
Oklay... must be some conflict on the PCIE bus.
I wonder what stupid setting they left on by default that I missed the first time
I read TFM. mnem
Nice pants.3 Days Ago: Later LATER SundayIt appears
the BIOS on these boards places ALL nvme management under the NVME RAID Management console. You can manage SATA drives from the regular settings menu; but to manage even a SINGLE nvme drive you have to ENABLE the nvme RAID Controller and force it to rescan the physical drives. Until you do, it continues to be this kind of totally flaky whenever there's a nvme drive attached (even though it auto-detects the damned things and shows them right on the dashboard), and of COURSE the nvme RAID Controller is turned OFF by default.
I only found this out by accident while noodling around in the BIOS;
NONE of this "nvme RAID Controller" config is outlined in TFM; it's not even MENTIONED. I think this manual is primarily drafted from the X470 manual with very little modification. The documentation posted online at the product page outlines configuring nvme drives in RAID; however, nowhere do they explain that before you install your nvme drive(s), you need to turn ON "nvme RAID MODE" in SATA Configuration submenu, EVEN IF INSTALLING ONLY A SINGLE DRIVE.
BIOS will act flaky as seen above until it scans the nvne drives and knows what to do with them; getting to that point with the BIOS behaving like this is an exercise in frustration.
mnem
*trailblazing* Yesterday: (4AM Monday Morning)
Bitch Lives.mnem
I'm goin' to bed. New Aorus Pro WiFi MB installed and custom-cabled. Got my (3 weeks) "old" build of Win10 on my Samsung 860 SATA SSD to boot relatively painlessly. Using it for basic diag while I get things tweaked and for single-nvme-drive baseline benchmarking before I do a fresh RAID 0 install of Windoze for comparison.
Yesterday Afternoon:
Had to tear my 1KW+
( Yes REALLY!!!) PSU down to the PCB because the fan in it sounds like a effing jet engine (unlike the one in my first unit) all the effing time.
Turns out they bypassed the thermal-control loop and were running the fan WOT/100% Duty Cycle.
Spent the afternoon tearing both of them apart to compare and retrofit missing parts so the 140mm fan has nice, ear-friendly thermal control like my first one.
And finishing up custom cabling.
Today:Just finished posting video in hopes of saving some other poor sod the same misery I just beat my head against for two days.
I sold myself on upgrading to the next level up, a $270 board, AFTER figuring out how to get it to boot... because of course I did. But
I had a good road trip with my son, and I am now able to "stop wishing I hadn't cheaped out."
While on my road trip widda boy, I also sold myself on a pair of
the cheapest PHISON E12 based 3.0x4 NVMe 512GB nvme drives I could find, just to see if Giga's nvme RAID claims held any water on
drives ordinary mortals might buy. Also because I was able to
buy steal them for $49.99 ea.
Settling in for an afternoon reading up on SSD benchmarking and AMD Infinity Fabric vs CPU OC-ing.
mnem
*currently having a sordid and unnatural relationship with this cup of coffee*