Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S4:E3

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[@zrkn1]

Anybody that has built PC's knows exactly how you felt on this one, good job holding back the rage LOL. Off camera must have gotten exciting. Very nice build!

[@GuidoDePalma]

yeah but drives not seen from bios has never happened to me... probably because i never used software raid

[@ElTeeger]

I’ve ran into other issue but this never with software bios

[@Dashcam-Media]

Happened to me when I got a new case and AIO cooler, rebuild mine a couple of times thinking I got something wrong. after 3 times of rebuilding, it finally checked the drives and I was able to boot in

[@adamtajhassam9188]

Small tip 4 greg bro- always have nvme driver on hand :) WATCHING THIS I have the exact same board :) same issue took me 9 hours to figure out

[@ilijazafirov4192]

@@GuidoDePalma it has happened to me a couple of times on drives that were new and weren't initialized, never happened to drives that were initialized

[@Skynenbonz]

On my rig, I had the issue where the AIO was pushing that left most RAM to the right preventing post. I ended up rotating the AIO 90 degrees and it came to life. AsRock Z590 Extreme wifi, Intel i9-11900k, NZXT Kraken x63 AIO.

[@cianide99]

I understand you have time constraints, but when you reinstall Windows you could also do the OOBE boot to check for temps and install the GPU drivers to make sure things are running smoothly. Yes, this will add about another hour, and seeing how you spent 4 hours fighting the NVMe, at least that way you'll make sure everything is working as it should before returning it. Once you quit the OOBE context window, the next boot will start as if it was a new Windows install for its owner to go through the process.

[@1BackUpPlan1]

ive always had to add the intel RST drivers on a clean win 10\11 install

[@dopetheadjective2020]

wow, you're the nicest youtuber ever. props to you dude, this is a great idea for a series. I've personally reached out to various creators for help with my broken pre-built, but no ever got back. They just bought some themselves and made a bunch of videos about how broken they are. True story. Keep up the good work!

[@Dan-Simms]

It's just b/c these tech tubers get asked that by people daily, it would just be too much to deal with. That's why Greg only does it in the city area he lives in, so it is on the viewer to personally drop off and pickup their PC.

[@SilentzxMiku]

The same damn drive wasnt detected by my x570 dark hero as a boot drive. It is however being detected on my old b450 strix. Till this day ive no idea what happened.. Had to buy a new drive and use the 970 evo plus as a secondary drive for games etc. From wat I know, apparently windows is tied to the old board on my b450, and hence its not working/detected on the x570 lol

[@jaghine]

@Greg - may be worth updating your version of MCT in case there's newer drivers included.

[@zr0dfx]

He had NVME Raid turned on in the bios. Which is why you needed to install the drivers. You could have turned it off or reset the bios to factory. It’s a puzzler for sure! 😅 great video

[@jaghine]

Does that not get reset on Clear CMOS...? If not, good catch.

[@SiliconPower74]

@@jaghine it should be. However, nowadays you cant trust brands to do sht right.

[@petergplus6667]

@@SiliconPower74 GNexus said there where BIOS versions that didn't wipe Voltage settings maybe this bug is bigger than assumed.

[@yodaddy719]

exactly man, I've ran into this issue so much. I was yelling at my screen wishing I could help him out lol.

[@Jay_kaying]

Ohhhh! 🙀

[@anthonycochran6492]

Greg, I really love this series! I have been out of the PC building game since about 2005, and this series has been invaluable in gearing up for my new build. Hardware troubleshooting was always a weak point in my knowledge, but Fix or Flop has really helped. I'm back to being the 'Tech Support Guy' for my group of friends...and I have to say it feels good. Keep up the good work.

[@GregSalazar]

I appreciate it, Anthony!

[@notrixamoris3318]

​@@GregSalazar Hi Greg I am sorry but can you so a super cheap PC BUILD using i3 13th gen and Intel ARC A380. I know it is not good but is it fine enough I mean 8GB RAM is not enough in todays standards but that build should work but is it really enough for aomeone to build it...

[@Gyffen1971]

@@GregSalazar During your Video near the end at around 16:27 to 17:00 there was a Hum that was being picked-up with your Mic when you moved near your Portable Screen. I don't know if, you noticed it or not. Also, Your series is Great! Believe me it is a pain when working on PC's that have "problem(s)" and i use that loosely because there can be multi-problems that are caused by just 1 thing! Sometime that resolves the rest of the problems but, not always! Repairing PC's does take a lot of time but, is worth the effort!

[@TechOrigami]

ASUS been taking Ls this whole week. And yes, that heatsink design is bad. Hopefully the VRM temps are something to boast about.

[@ElTeeger]

I wonder if ASUS will bounce back after all the recent chaos

[@Alvin853]

The board is fine, Intel has a specified keep-out-zone around the socket where no components with a z-height greater than X can be placed, and the board obeys these rules. NZXT doesn't care and makes their pump block bigger than the keep-out-zone, so while ASUS has been taking many Ls lately, this time ASUS is not to blame. Yeah they could have left more space, but they're not obligated to, NZXT is at fault here.

[@richardzhang2773]

​@@Alvin853 Yep NZXT needs to think about user functionality while selling these $200+ AIOs

[@MrNota500]

@@richardzhang2773 There are so many different board/Ram combos its almost impossible to make it work with everything. That's where knowledge/experience comes in. In this case, common sense should tell you that wedging things could cause problems if not a short and fry the board, ram or cpu. Some people just shouldn't pick up tools, just like some people shouldn't sing out loud.

[@ILiketurtles68]

It's fashionable to hate on Asus this week. #trendy

[@yodaddy719]

as a computer tech, I've ran into this problem a few times. In my experience, a good place to check would be in the SATA operation in the BIOS. Make sure that RAID is disabled and AHCI is selected if RAID isn't supported. I've gotten that blue screen with INACCESSABLE DEVICE so many times lol, this has saved my life many times. It's not always the case, but just something good to check on the list.

[@bobbymoss6160]

I just have a feeling that some people have the worst luck when it comes to PC and technology. Thank God there are people like Greg who take pleasure in fixing these issues.

[@MrNota500]

Its more of a lack of PC knowledge and common sense. The owner spent all the money to make it look good but didn't add fans to provide air flow to cool components. Also the choice to go with an AIO if you are not savvy enough to identify a pump failure is a bad choice imo. Also wedging the block against the RAM is clearly not smart. Their is no such thing as luck, things happen for reasons.

[@SiliconPower74]

​@@MrNota500 Agree, however a lot of brands overlook some parts of the desing that could end up with issues like... Asus making those big VRM heatsink that are too close to the socket. NZXT with his nonsense USB. Microsoft for not including the IRST drivers that almost every intel computer needs. These issues are no challenge for a advance user but for lacking user, could be a wall that cant overcome

[@Ladioz]

Greg you're a legend. Troubleshooting takes real patience, the fix is a huge reward and a pleasure for us to watch. Cheers

[@RVail623]

Might be best practice when working on a system repair to: first select "load default bios settings" (or simply clear the CMOS settings), re-boot, then double-check that the CSM setting is set to "off", and set to AHCI mode (instead of Raid mode). Raid mode setting should never default to "on". There is a set of DOS commands that may be useful: 1. Boot from the Windows installer USB thumb drive 2. Navigate to CMD prompt 3. Type "disk part" 4. Type "select disk X" where X=disk number 5. Type "clean" Note: for system data safety, only have the one target drive connected, so as to not unintentionally mess with any secondary drive.

[@playingwithproparam7302]

sir i love you help and i have a problem with my own pc is there a WAY I CAN SAND MY PC TO YOU I DONT KNOW ADDRES OR ANYTHING I LIVE IN INDIA HOW CAN I SAND YOU ARE WHAT IS YOUR EMAIL

[@mercuryrising9758]

He doesn't accept shipments stateside, much less internationally

[@playingwithproparam7302]

thanks bro will he if i ship it to him

[@mercuryrising9758]

@@playingwithproparam7302 no you have to be able to drop it off and pick up in person in Florida

[@playingwithproparam7302]

@@mercuryrising9758 thank youuu

[@1Mrstephen]

Just found your channel yesterday I think. I’ve been watching nonstop… you make approaching builds doable and not so damns scary. I appreciate this greatly. My set up is older for sure and works fine for playing FFXIV and some others but I so am going to start setting $ aside to start my first build.

[@Woad25]

Good luck with the build when you get the money! :)

[@wesleyschick3841]

If the boot drive is not showing...always, always, always check for the IRST driver. Also, why didn't you get him white fans? Black fans on a white case doesn't look good. 😕

[@thepoliticalstartrek]

He may have set the NVME slot to Optane Mode. That would explain why you had to load the Intel Drivers.

[@edwinwelch1946]

I have never missed a video and Im still never missing a video. Glad to see a new upload

[@GregSalazar]

I greatly appreciate that, Edwin!

[@edwinwelch1946]

@@GregSalazar btw i use a similar style case the ASUS GT 502 white. I ended up taking the stickers off the fans for a cleaner look because it looked weird having the stickers showing the details.

[@ZipplyZane]

I was expecting that you'd still order the right angle USB cable, since there still is some pressure on the DIMM. Do you not think there is likely to be any long term issues with that?

[@pbjames]

Starting off with the DMs, oh boy this is gonna be a ride

[@zMeul]

you need the VMD driver because the VMD controller is enabled in the BIOS - either load the VMD driver in the OS install or disable the VMD in the BIOS

[@Mave-rick]

Exactly. This reminds me of the transition from IDE to AHCI, Windows didn't have built-in AHCI drivers, so you needed a Floppy Disk or CD-ROM with AHCI drivers to install Windows. Neither Windows 10/11 have drivers for Intel VMD built-in, so before installation, as shown in the video, you'll need to provide drivers so Windows Install can see the drive you want to install to.

[@1MiketheMechanic]

@Greg Salazar Hey Greg a couple of things about newer ASUS boards and the issues you were having. If you would have reset the BIOS it probably would have fixed your problems with the drive detection. The other thing you could have done is switched to EZMODE(F7) and turned Intel RST off (it is available in advanced mode but buried). This enables the RAID controller when on and all drives, including NVME, are under the RAID controller even when not set as a RAID drive. Most modern ASUS and Gigabyte (and probably others) motherboards don't show changes with certain items like drives until a reboot. If you were to turn off Intel RST the drive still would not show in BIOS until the reboot. Hope that helps if you run into similar problems in the future.

[@SwampFox178]

A good day so far just got better! Love fix or flop!

[@luvingyouu]

at first when you were installing the fans I thought it would look realy ugly but it honestly came out well and looks like a yin and yang design. Very pretty pc for a first time builder and maybe their first custom pc

[@xsAMOR]

As good as the fans are, there are also those ugly bequiet stickers on them. I would definately put some black-cirlcled ones over original (or peel them off), because they mess up all the looks. And if they aren't positioned in perfect center spot, you have "concentricity error".

[@luvingyouu]

@@xsAMOR yeah that is true, especially the back stickers you see. I understand the front facing fan having sticks on it but I just wish they would give their own blank stickers included to put over the back ones that will be seen in the case. I doubt they'd want you covering the logo though so unlikely you'll get extra stickers to do that

[@TimBoundy]

This one was frustrating to watch. The AHCI/RAID thing is quite common, surprised Greg didn't know about it. With the new Windows install, the user won't be able to switch it back to the regular configuration without reinstalling Windows again.

[@nonope2207]

That mobo design looks excruciatingly bad. I just assumed it was an ITX mobo in an ATX case until getting the full shot of the PC. What was ASUS thinking with that?

[@chrismcgraw3399]

wow,i havent had to use chipset drivers sata or otherwise since around 2003 back when i had a socket 939 3000+ amd cpu among the first 64 bit cpu generation with a weird asus motherboard that had a bios that actually talked with recorded voice. fun thing is you could record your voice and upload it in the bios so it could say stupid stuff like: yay i booted and i'm not dead yet ( i did that and it was funny seeing peoples faces when i booted up my rig lol ) XD .

[@galvinon]

I too have an Asus z690 board and for some reason intel RST is auto enabled by the bios I had to disable RST and then the PC was able to detect the drives and boot without the need for the intel RST driver in the Windows setup also when you update the Bios it will re-enable RST as for why Asus has this on by default? Maybe it was for Intel Octane when it did exist that is my guess

[@michaelblack5011]

see if NVM2e was GPT or MBR , in bios legacy or UEFI ,next intalation wiil have the same problem

[@orangedealer6931]

I have recently changed my case and then I needed to pull out all my ram and I found out after 3 hours of troubleshooting that 2 of my 4 dimms don't want to change socket so I now have labeld them a1 and b1 and a2 and b2 so that I don't encounter that problem again 😂😂

[@CattyRayheart]

the samsung 970 and 980 have a firmware issue, that will eventually kill the drive so make sure that the firmware on the drive is updated.

[@lvmarv1]

Great video until the last 2 minutes. Surely I wasnt the only one yelling at my screen to not put black fans in that build? The dude clearly went with an all white build for a reason and you ruined it for the sake of a sponsor spot!

[@goodvibesonly6161]

I can't stress how helpful this series is, I work as feild engineer fixing/ diagnosing issues with ATMs/Slot machines and betting terminals. Although it is just PCs focused, there are some similarities when it comes to these machine I work on but at the end of the day they are computers. I appreciate how I can take away the concept of each of these videos and apply them to work. Can honestly say this series has helped me so much with my job. Thank you so much Greg, keep up the good work man loving the videos 👍❤️

[@urscreamin4it]

So much easier to put the M.2 on a test bench instead of changing BIOS settings 5000x.

[@AZFlyingCook]

I just finished my first build in literally over a decade (I call it my midlife crisis build, went as all-in as I could afford). Watching your videos really added to my confidence doing my first water cooled build. As for the AIO USB cable, the one with an actual screen just adds the USB header to that wire bundle, a lot smarter. Thank you for all the very useful info!

[@AnonIllumi]

hate asus mobo's all the way from prime all the way up to strix coz of crap like this...

[@NYCamper62]

That was a nice clean system, glad you were able to solve the issue. I'd bet the owner was relieved & grateful.

[@Notsoderpy]

i just built my first pc and i cant get anything to power up, when i turn on the psu nothing happends can you help?

[@justinsane332]

this is one of the best series on computer troubleshooting...never really know what is going to happen, and as a copier tech, who also builds computers once in a while, its great.

[@suffer8318]

Appreciate the sentiment but installing black fans when the theme is white is just silly.

[@Faith.in.His.Grace.]

I had never even heard of the intel rst vmd driver. Where is the intel rst vmd driver being installed onto, the motherboard?

[@brando3342]

Very strange fix! I was wondering, is there any way you could do a side video about how to install the intel RST drivers? I would be curious to see how you even got to that window in the first place.

[@Akkbar21]

There is a obvious place to click to load a driver during windows install.

[@AeiKei]

The issue you face is related to the RST being enabled in the BIOS, this should be disabled in the BIOS unless using a RAID setup or a Intel Optane drive, that is why you were getting BSOD's

[@inmitch]

So fun and informative to watch someone else do the absolute most difficult part of building a PC... troubleshooting. Thanks for these.

[@hahagager]

Corsair coolers come with right angle micro usb cables to the block should have tried one of those

[@Matty-Z]

Ouch! Watching you delete partitions without trying to boot into Windows after the driver update made me cringe. You never know what sensitive files they needed, but irreplaceable pictures are the most common. Still love your channel, and watch all vids.

[@Matty-Z]

Also, I believe the issue was AHCI vs RAID. This is because of the CMOS clearing.

[@rhino8571]

Hi Greg, really loving your content, I worked as a repair tech from around 2002- 2007. In the early days of my computing life AMD was so much cheaper than Intel and the performance was pretty good. My current rig needs an update, it's getting past its best: Intel i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz. 32Gb DDR4, R9 390(8Gb)(built 2015 ish) If you cut my buddy in half his organs would spell AMD, we may fight if I buy Intel. I have no (few) problems with this old setup, I'm not 100% sure but your videos seem to show more issues with AMD than Intel, maybe AMD have just been more popular lately. Recommendations please folks, budget £1000 $1250ish today

[@KE24986]

Intel rapid storage technology for 12th gen chips is my guess. (I haven't watched the full video yet)

[@KE24986]

I was right🙂

[@kousikadhikary]

How did you get to the Driver option? Internet needed?

[@steveseybolt]

Its ASUS I had Massive issues 2 weeks ago on a 790 m prime board . its a mess. I had driver issues with the OB network. so put in a generic usb wifi in. that worked installed windows but then it would not show display but everything was on after leaving bios. 24 hrs later I just let it sit I would hit space bar and everything lit up no display. Then Viola hit space bar 2nd time and Im at the windows PIN login ! WTH!!! IDK just bizarre

[@ryangilson9391]

Greg your series has given me the ability to troubleshoot and do some of the easier and a few more advanced repair steps. Your content is amazing and I have helped several friends now with basic problems they have been having with their PC's.... Now if I could only do good cable management...

[@gtanner3592]

Great work as always, Ive built 7 PC's over the years. I always learn something from your video's. Thanks for the info!

[@MrPruske]

0:25 P.O.S.T. for a pc stands for power on self test after a post, you get an image. just to be clear :)

[@MrPruske]

btw, the build looks great

[@tdrb42]

You run into the RST driver issue quite a bit in prebuilts and laptops. It’s unusual to see it pop up in a custom build.

[@fredsorre6605]

pretty sure it was set to RAID instead of AHCI or ATA which is natively supported by Windows Intel Raid on the other hand needs the Intel RST drivers to detect drives even NVME ones which is weird cause NVME does not use those protocols.

[@BattleOverride856]

Inaccessible boot device....usually i would check to see if the drive is set to RAID or AHCI and go with the other option. If Windows was installed on AHCI mode but its in RAID mode on the bios, it will always throw up the innaccessible boot device error code. Edit: i see someone else already said the same thing

[@ericb6309]

I like those Lightning fans - I put two 140 mm fans as front intakes in my Fractal North case so the circular RGB would provide a nice subtle backlighting to the North’s front wood paneling.

[@typerightseesight]

The guy is a collector of calls that sell fans.

[@tuxpowerpc]

Definitiely a lesson learned on this one. Kudos to a great job Greg!

[@pcmark-nl]

At 1:24 it looks like one of the GPU's power connectors isn't plugged in all the way. Doesn't seem to matter, but still.

[@CybrJames]

Great job with troubleshooting. I am on the older side, and I recall the days back with Windows NT when you had to load the driver like you did to see the hard drives. RAID (SCSI) was the worse. Once again, great job.

[@ryanespinoza7297]

I had this issue when trying to install windows on my Samsung 980 pro. No matter what, bios would not detect the drive as bootable for windows install but it could see that it was there connected. I was too tired to keep messing with it so I dragged a sata ssd from my old pc over as the boot drive and just reinstalled windows on it instead.

[@mrpunch27]

I've seen a similar issue in the past. It may have been possible to fix the boot issue if you could force it into safe mode. Hopefully Windows would then install the correct drivers...

[@victorm316]

Thanks Greg for the video. I just finished a build with the same case. Wish you would show how you fixed it and what you did. Installing the drivers.

[@RANDOMNATION907]

Seems like the ASUS and NZXT products in that build were designed with a focus on coolness and aesthetics rather than genuine functionality. As Fernando Lamas once famously said, "It is better to Look Good, than Feel Good." . . people, perhaps, . . PC hardware, not so much.

[@andyflange]

figured the missing drive was a RAID related problem... remember having issues like this in the early days of SATA 1 hard drives as I built a few PC's for people where I had to load drivers during a Windows install just to see the drives then had to pick the right RAID options to be able to use it at all as there were some poor motherboard BIOS options back then. I specifically remember a Gigabyte board that my friend picked and the bios basically seemed to have no option to turn RAID off at all - the only way I got it to work was selecting RAID striping (RAID 0) despite the fact there was only one drive in the system since the only other option was mirroring (RAID 1) which refused to work at all, even if you loaded the drivers from floppy during install - again, there was only one drive in the system :/

[@axtran]

NVMe RAID configured... I'd also check that 970 EVO Plus for faulty firmware--I keep running into bad firmware myself...

[@WornArsenic]

This series has made me so thankful that I didn’t run into any of these problems when I built my first gaming PC. Only strange thing that happened was my 4080 super came with a 3 PCIe to 12VHPWR adapter & 2 would plug in but the 3rd one wouldn’t for the life of me. I just bought a Cablemod cable & since then my PC hasn’t had any issues.

[@Stinker4583]

I don't get why fist time builders alwys tend get high end parts like 3090s. It's like getting a sports car when you're a beginner driver It makes no ense. At least try get get used to it on something cheap, a used office PC or someting.... Just find something to play arround, where breaking things wont matter. Thats the best and honestly the ONLY why to truely learn this stuff.

[@realLuisGiordano]

New RST versions use Intel's Volume Management Device (VMD) to manage NVMEs in a RAID setup, and WIndows still doesn't have the driver to see them natively, hence the need to load the drivers during Windows installation. Most Gen12 and up Intel motherboards have VMD (RAID) enabled by default for NVMEs.

[@TechGuy42ilm]

God you're so nice and love the Playlist. Those black fans definitely do not fit imho but to each their own. I think white would definitely be much better.

[@toxin3596]

Hay greg i always loved your video mostly this fix or flop series

[@d.spcsolutions1758]

I had the same problem with a kraken z63 280mm (i7 12700k/32GB DDR4-4 Sticks/RTX 3080Ti) one of the sticks was touching the aio's block, wich caused no posting or Windows frozen constantly. My solution? I used 2 16GB DDR4 Sticks instead.

[@NotyceZ]

Hi man, I'm stuck in a situation and I need your advice, I just bought the new MSI GAMING X TRIO RTX 4070 and I have paired it with the Intel I5-13400F, my question is, should I keep this build or change the processor with an Intel i5-13600KF (There is a 115$ price difference between the processors from where I am) the purpose of this build is gaming .(Sorry but I'm not an AMD processors fan, so I have to pick between these 2)

[@kr00tman]

I LOVE LOVE spending so much time on silly issues like this, but this has actually happened to me before, thank god for google, got lucky and found a reddit thread with the answer, tried it and worked right away.

[@MagnumForce51]

I would have tried to install to a sata drive, then clone that sata drive over to the NVME drive (perhaps even do this from a separate machine). Then attempt to boot it. I'd let windows boot with the NVME drive present at least once so it has the drivers to it. If it doesn't work , then I'd say the drive is dead. ;) I've cloned my current Windows install over to a NVME drive once I finally upgraded to one and Windows handled it just fine. :D

[@techgirl517]

Asus is so disappointing atm... They do so much mistake... I have a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX and every AIO fits well.

[@Bentagor]

Hey Greg! Dealt with the same issue on my System. My Samsung 980 Pro showed the same symptoms. Bought a new Seagate Firecuda 530, reinstalled everything ... guess what! 2 Weeks later got and BSOD again and the Bootdrive didn´t show up again. Last option was to RMA the motherboard (Was an Gigabyte x570s Aero-G), bought an Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero and so far everything is working perfekt. And believe it or not, my Systemdrive is the same "old" Samsung 980 Pro again and it runs perfectly fine so far. Man i was so pissed whith that, and for me it was the daily driver-PC. Something i was thinking with the RAM problem: the outer ram module was hanging more down than the others and im wondering if that was the real issue first and not the left one.🤷‍♂

[@michaelthompson9798]

I had this issue going back to one of my old Intel builds for my itx 4790k pc needing a software driver to see my storage drive on my Z97 motherboard 👎😡which I needed to download separately from Asus website and install via separately usb while installing my Win7 OS🫣🤔. These series are a treasure trove of knowledge invaluable to any pc user / builder imo. Great work on these series Greg🥰😇💪. Cheers buddy 🥂🍻

[@netholio]

I received an HP laptop for Christmas 2020 that had an 1tb hdd - when replacing the HDD with an 2.5" SSD and a gen-4 NVME, I ran into this very frustrating problem that you did - the win-11 installer needed the RST drivers - then all was good.

[@rscorpion9178]

Maybe the whole thing was just an incompatibility issue, between the motherboard and the M.2. In my case (Asus ROG Strix B450F Gaming II & Crucial P2), the motherboard outright refuses to recognise the M.2 in the bios, no matter what i do. I've tried every possible M.2 related setting in the bios to make it appear there, but to no avail... Now the thing is that as soon as i boot into Windows, the M.2 is shown and works perfectly fine. I still have both of the components and haven't changed anything, since it's kinda too late... (P.S. I wrote the comment before the issue was fixed...😅)

[@Demongate666]

Windows installation on Samsung NVMe was MBR which is legacy and due to your manual CSM settings for UEFI was not able to boot properly ....

[@bradmccoppin2194]

Hello, I had that same exact motherboard that gave me a lot of issues. I always updated the BIOS when they released, but one problem that was always there when updated bios over a year, was the gpu EZ debug light would stay on after I turned the system on and nothing was wrong with my 3060ti FE card, but if I rebooted my system the gpu light would not stay on. I have recently replaced the Motherboard and only the motherboard with an MSI MPG Z790 Edge wifi DDR4 white, and I have no problems and the gpu light has never stayed on. In my opinion its ASUS trash motherboard, and with the recent Asus fiasco, I will NEVER buy another asus product, and besides the prices for asus products are obsurd!!!!!

[@erichagen3617]

I have the newer Karen Z73, they resolved the tubing pivots, changed the micro USB input, and made thinner cables. It didn’t come with RGB/ARGB fans though…..

[@pe3ke117]

6:34 bcs of that i throw nzxt coolers from window straight to the trashcan, horrible idea of building aio... other brands absolutely no problem at all... p.s. many manufacturers fckdup with turnON VMD mode instead of AHCI... common mistake with windows install problems.

[@michalbojarski6132]

Before I watch this. Had the same problem. Exactly as describe. Windows 11 was to blame in my case. Replaced CPU and went back to Windows 10. The original cpu is in perfect working order in different build.

[@Calango741]

I have run into that problem before. I had the same Samsung 970 EVO Plus in my system for a couple of years and everything was fine and then suddenly one day my Chrome browser window closed on me and each time I tried to open Chrome again, it would instantly close. Long story, short, eventually it would no longer boot into windows anymore, so I took the DRASTIC step or re-installing Windows and reloading all my programs and it was fine for a couple of days and then suddenly BSOD again! THEN, even though the drive showed up in the BIOS, it did not show in the windows installation window - SO, I figured the drive had died and that it had started with the boot partition. Since I also had an Intel U.2 NVMe drive in the system, I just took the Samsung drive out and am now using the Intel drive as my boot drive. The kicker is: THE SAMSUNG DRIVE IS FINE when in another system. So... I concluded there was some problem with the M.2 slot and have just been running successfully booting from the U.2 drive and the Samsung drive is now at home in another system.

[@queegfivehundred8197]

I had to install the RST drivers when doing a clean install of windows 11 on an 11th gen ASUS laptop... I tried the other BIOS option (likely AHCI) and windows still wouldn't install, but because the factory windows 11 was still working I knew it wasn't a hardware problem. It was very old school - I hadn't had to add drivers during windows install since probably windows 95, which would have been for a third party IDE add in card - but of course once windows was installed the current paradigm reasserted itself as all the ASUS bloatware was automatically installed by Windows Update...

[@briansgolfworks4991]

I had a similar problem with a new ASUS Z690 MB. The installed M.2 was not discovered. I booted with a USB cloned Win11 drive, installed a Intel driver and the M.2 was discovered. Contacted ASUS and never received an answer to the problem.

[@kiracrossings]

My guess is that the PC did not always turn on (thanks to the RAM), and he performed a BIOS factory reset, thinking it might be BIOS settings causing the random starting problems.

[@samnicholson9045]

More recently I have had to do just that with the RST drivers on a couple of laptops when re-installing W10 or W11 - very frustrating, as it can be a challenge to identify the correct driver, but a quick download to the Intel site usually sorts it. However, the other thing I'd say is some of the newer 12th and 13th gen boards only support Gen5 in the top most M.2 slot, meaning your BIOS and Windows installer won't 'see' the NVMe unless it is Gen5 (which you can't really buy yet here in Scotland) or you need to move to the lower down M.2 slots. Another good result though, and well worth the perseverance, Greg!

[@carlostapia9186]

You probably didn’t need to delete the OS after updating the drivers 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@oMeGa0122]

Good video 👍🏻, A tip, I ran into this when I was trying to use the windows recovery environment WRE, no drive will show up even though I can boot normally into Windows and see all the drives. I scouted the internet for months not finding any post or thread mentioning that. The problem is with RTS aka IRS aka IRTS, Intel Rapid Storage Technology. Even with RTS drivers installed sometimes you cannot see the drives. And Asus always tend to have it on by default on their motherboards. The solution was just to turn it off in BIOS and then your BIOS will see all the drives. I'm loving this series and im currently watching the entire if it.

[@WouterVerbruggen]

Asus simply designs by the socket clearance requirements. This space issue is the fault of the liquid cooler designer. Also, inaccessible boot device in my experience is almost aways either an AHCI vs IDE issue or a missing driver issue (like when booting from add-in cards). But to be frank, I have little experience with platforms of after 2016, so maybe IDE settings arent a thing anymore.

[@zul8572]

Disable that stupid Intel VMD controller/RAID mode in UEFI if you didn't use RAID configuration. Switch to AHCI mode. It really frustrating that these manufacturers set those RAID as default settings even though normal user doesn't really need it.

[@Splyngz]

Hi Greg! Im having an issue where i enable the XMP in the BIOS, it shows it's turned on but when i boot up my pc it sill says that it's running on 2666Mhz instead of 3200Mhz. Why is that, and how can I fix that?

[@SkateClipsAndTips]

My buddy had this issue on his old setup, doing a quick google search on cpu ram limit it only allowed 2666mhz, the motherboard supported up to 2900mhz, but the cpu can't go any higher than 2666mhz. The cpu was an i5 10600k and it's ram frequency limit was 2666mhz. You would have to upgrade either your motherboard or cpu. (EDIT: just learned that non z variant motherboards for intel don't allow for higher ram frequency than the cpu limit.) Both have their own frequency limit, whatever has the lower frequency limit is the part you have to replace. I have an I7 10700 cpu and it's max frequency is 2933mhz, but my motherboard supports above that and I can enable xmp for 3200mhz. Due to my motherboard being an asus z490 I am able to go past the 2933mhz cpu limit; however your cpu downlocks your ram back down to the supported memory speed limit of the cpu

[@Splyngz]

@@SkateClipsAndTips ty. i checked and it was the cpu

[@SkateClipsAndTips]

@@Splyngz You can enable a frequency past that limit if your motherboard is a z series, if it's a b series or h series you can't go past the max cpu supported ram speed. I saw online that even though you xmp to 3200mhz and your cpu only supports a max of 2666mhz it will run at that speed always. Example the I5 10600k has a max supported ram speed of 2666mhz, you can use xmp to change your ram speed to 3200mhz if you have a z series motherboard; however the cpu will downclock the ram back down to the max supported speed it's compatible with

[@Splyngz]

@@SkateClipsAndTips i will check that when I will be at my pc. Thank u

[@Trac3r.]

This community seems amazing. I need help… started upgrading realised building anew will be better I decided the i5 9400f w/Z390-A-pro to get the 4.1ghz boost w/ 32gb maxing the chip claims it maxes at 2666… got that I am in the realms of asking how would be best to go about storage and bios settings to really get the oompf out of this I am self taught to try save money I am medically retired at 38. I know it’s hassle asking others to fix what I am learning to do. But I will do that a list and I’ll learn each thing to get it right all suggestions inc PSU calculations etc as it’s for flight sim set up which means ideally I’m gonna want to utilise a vast array of USB devices at once like 15 USB’s at once so I’m a need advice on the USB hubs needed I am eternally grateful if you got this far in reading my message. Have a great day. 😊

[@marxman6896]

Reminder that this terribly designed NZXT AIO is also *VERY* overpriced compared to the non-Corsair competition (Corsair is also *very* overpriced with its LCD screen models). You're paying more and all you're getting in return is an RGB thingy and a bunch of headaches and poor design decisions.

[@Greddy87]

This happened to me with a Samsung EVO , lucky I had another M.2 SSD ,swapped them installed windows and then used Samsung Magician which updated the chip on the Samsung SSD and now windows recognizes it, but what the ordeal you went with, very frustrating lol