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The order on the motherboard is: A1, A2, B1, B2. If you have two memory sticks it should be installed in A2 and B2 if you want to use dual channel. If one stick A2. If four sticks, figured it out by yourself 😄
@@northwestrepairAll memory is single channel if you use only one or put them in A1 and A2, but to get dual channel memory you put one memory stick in the A2 and another in B2 and you now have enabled dual channel on you motherboard.
@@northwestrepair- Using the right combination of banks is what makes it dual-channel. The motherboard manual should list the correct slot combinations. Usually, if you have two sticks of RAM, you'll want to put them in slots 2 and 4 (where "4" is the one furthest from the CPU). But check the motherboard manual to be sure.
Yeah, I was thinking "Why is Tony running this MB in single channel?" Could he have a reason we do not see? Still, always great to watch you work! I have fixed more computers than I can count, and the truth is, 'What will not work in one, will likely work in another' so...I don't trash anything unless it fails to work in at least 10 rigs, sounds like a lot of time and effort, but sometimes 'broken' parts just work.....
The likely issue is that the board you have has a early bios which is not fully stable with the late production DDR4 memory with more aggressive timings. Z170 was released during the DDR3 to DDR4 transition. Early production DDR4 has much less aggressive timings when compared to late production modules like the most recent 3200 CL16 sticks. BIOS updates usually are released later in the life time of the board to deal with these issues. What you see is a classic memory instability issue due to instability between the memory and the memory controller. This is similar to how DDR5 8200 memory is not guaranteed to be stable at rated speeds on all but the most high end overclocking boards and only with the best bined CPUs. This happened when we went from DDR2 to DDR3 and DDR3 to DDR4. You will see this issue again with current DDR5 boards whenever we go from DDR5 to DDR6.
@@zackzeedyou don’t understand here. The cap file is an encrypted with headers. It only works if you use asus ez flash. If you want to use external flash, like this case, you need to decrypt and remove headers, extract uefi body only. Asus rename does nothing but … rename, which doesn’t help at all.
Great video! More interesting than the GPU crack repairs IMO. Also answers questions about why all the repair shops avoid motherboard repairs. I hope you do some more motherboard stuff even though you dont like it!
XGEcu Plus, never heard of that one. I'm probably going to get one in case I need to flash a BIOS chip. I used to program BINs for my 86 and 87 Camaro and add a socket to the ECU for using EPROMs.
on daisy chain layouts the first physical trace is a2 and or b2 ("or" for single channel cpus, "and" for dual) * i think the single channel cpu will connect to either of them as well. a1 is daisy chained on a2 and b1 the same on b2. On T- topology layouts there could be differences. Need to check the manual about memory configuration based on the motherboard mem layout and cpu
@@ariewijaya1679Yeah No, a shit PSU will kill other components, my bad PSU ended up half killing my RAM and GPU, another ancient PC I had fully killed itself taking out the Motherboard, RAM and HDD.
I have the same board with a i7 7700 that I got out of another case and lo and behold... It Works! I'm running 2 dual GPU AMD cards in X-Fire and 32 gigs of memory. I was surprised because I have a bunch of Wonky or dead ASUS Boards and have had them Uncerimoniousley quit on me for no reason. I would like to learn how to trouble shoot these things and bring them back to life if possible. Still.. the less features are a lot better because a lot less to go wrong! Nice fix too! Just keep it cool because I think Heat is what kills them.
I always insert the CPU one corner first. My daughter used this method since she was 10 years old and she never missed, never bent any pins, ever. My programmer knows how to handle the BIOS from ASUS all by itself. It's an old one, an EZP2019+
I see alot of comments saying so let me clear the sky single channel memory is 10% loss on cpu performance (may very between generations) but dual channel is the way to go with old and new cpus so NWR i suggest you install the ram in dual channel mode (also the slots are colour coded so itll be easy) congratulations on the successful reapir
no no no man dfon't you know AMD drivers are the problem no matter what? Shit, you can have a Xeon have an issue and its the AMD gpus fault , (not even in the system), every time. AMD can cure cancer and yet, the gpu drivers will still be a problem. AMD can release 2x price to perform- (oh wait they already do) and AMD is still evil.
@@northwestrepairI am not saying it cannot be true. However, "post hoc ergo propter hoc" is not always right. So I am anxiously waiting for the motherboard's post mortem and attempt to revive that.
@@northwestrepair - Well, you plug and unplug a lot of things every day, and motherboards don't last forever, so it would always fail after plugging or unplugging _something._ Just because one thing happens after another doesn't mean it was _caused_ by it.
This video became interesting for me because I have a skylake/kaby lake generation board. Pretty sure it's a kaby lake gen since it's a z270 board, but I'm actually running a skylake i7 in it.
It takes quite a bit for a motherboard to blow up a CPU, usually the S0 power stages are heavily protected specifically to prevent this kind of situations.
You can force the power supply to turn on, just short pin 16 of the ATX power connector to ground. Then you can test all power points, don't even need a CPU installed.
@@-eMpTy- - It shouldn't make much (if any) difference from an electrical / logical point of view; if the motherboard is well designed, it will still be in spec. They generally recommend 2+4 because that improves cooling (and makes heatsink installation easier) compared to using 1+3.
@@RFC3514 It doesn't matter on T-Topology, but most if not all modern mainboards use a daisy chain memory topology instead. For daisy chain, it's absolutely crucial to put them in 2+4 to reduce signal reflections, otherwise you might not even be able to boot XMP as I said.
@@-eMpTy- - 1+3 worked fine on every dual-channel motherboard I've used. I usually try 1+3 and 2+4 separately when setting up a new system (just as a quick way to check that the four slots are working without having to use four sticks). They usually end up in 2+4 (because it's just more practical, leaves more space for the CPU heatsink, etc.), but I've never seen 1+3 fail. Maybe it's an issue with some specific Intel motherboards (I'd say 90% of the ones I've used in the last 5 or 10 years were AMD, they all worked fine).
@@RFC3514 Then you must not have run any high speed memory. Treating your own experience a general fact is never a good idea. Literally any modern mainboard manual tells you to put them in 2+4, mainly for the aforementioned reason.
sometimes the cmos is not getting cleared by flashing bios via programmer, for example recently i flashed an opensourced bios firmware called coreboot to a 15yo motherboard, then i flashed back to original one and cmos data still presents. (i used programmer on both flashing process) so it's better to touch cmos battery jumper (usually it called as JBAT) just for a second for making sure. and no i'm not going to tell that you are using single channel memory as many people said before. nice ram sticks btw another note: if you have seperated north bridge on your motherboard you can start them without a cpu for checking the voltages. but those motherboards aren't produced since more than a decade. if i'm not wrong intel killed seperated northbridge with 2th gen
Modifying the stock BIOS downloaded form a manufacturer website you have to insert the Ethernet MAC address into it, otherwise you lost networking capability.
I have a problem with one GPU rx6600, only after a few restarting the system is working normally, tried flash the bios it starting to work normally but every morning after a long night doesn't start unless I am attempting a few times
fyi, not in dual channel mode, you need to stagger the ram modules. (use 1 color of ram slots.) I am happy you scored a deal. I bought a rog strix z490-e for $50 and it had the same problem. Flashed and all is well. Cheers GPU Dude!
intel image is where u extract as is to make .bin also there is a bios mod to use 8th gen cpu called coffeetime 0.99 but some cpu need pin mod. under advanced> tool or OC you can save custom profile for easy reset bios and restore settings in future. 11:21 the 2nd mem is in wrong slot.. dual chan has a blank spot between them
I have an ASUS mobo, and after weeks of working fineone day it just started to blue-screen, i ran a RAM test and it says the modules 4GB to 8GB have errors(single DDR4 8GB 3600Mhz dimm) The PC does boot and all, i can even run a live-OS but sometimes it crashes. If i try to re-install an OS to my PC it can't do it because ir says the memory is corrupted. I'm hesitant to see if flashing the bios is a good idea or could i brick my mobo.
A repairman in soul, just can't help himself and always tries to save stuff from the garbage bin. I suffer from the same mentality, sometimes it hurts more than just moving forward. we are a special kind of idiots for sure, but damn it fells good to be a degenerate 😜🤪
No. I had this happen on my own PC exact same motherboard. Firmware goes bad and it boots and it doesnt boot. Hard to say exactly what makes it boot but solution is the same. Update the bios manually.
RAM is presumably not correctly installed. On Asus MBs susually slots 2 & 4 are used when you have 2 DIMMs. Also called A2 and B2 if I remember correctly.
Seriously, ram needs a complete overhaul. And operating systems using 4k clusters on a ntfs partition on nvme is a complete crime scene. It needs to be completely revamped. ROS ram os. We have all the hardware now. Os is usung 30 year old tech. Yes win 11 is usung tech from the 90s
i was about to tell you A1, B1 but someone already did left the comment anyways for the ALGO... had 2 asus boards, AMD however. Both are dead from bios issues that were not fixable with the tool i had. parts came in handy for another board or two for MSI b550, x570 boards.
I would have checked the smt fuses on the original board before getting another one. Sometimes with new hardware it takes the motherboard a bit of time to start up. Not really a good idea powering up with no heatsink. Don't know if it is relevant, but you can force on an ATX supply by connecting the green to any black wire.
