Bios update and Q-Fan issues
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Yeah, but not many SSDs need them unless you're hammering the drive for hours and you can always buy one with a heatsink.
Yes. Should have made it clearer
Thought about it. Need to get some time free to take the PC apart bit by bit to figure it out. My gut feeling is that the Dark Base 900 Pro case Fan Controller is faulty.
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That motherboard has one m2 heatsink already between the CPU and the graphics card and the second m2 are is further down without.
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Great. If need be, will consider one m.2 without a heatsink. I am very unlikely to "hammer" the CPU hard.
One further question - I use Windows 11 Pro and using slmgr.vbs/dli command, it states that the key is Retail and licenced.
So, by changing the Motherboard (hardware per Microsoft) will this key still work?
Who knows. From what I've seen, genuine purchased retail copies of Windows 11 should work (if it is assigned to your Microsoft account they provide an option to reassign the license), while older copies of Windows that have been upgraded (e.g. Windows 7 or 8.1) are less likely to reactivate. There have been posts on here where even retail copies of Windows 11 (i.e. not upgraded) have had problems and Microsoft seem much less likely to help now, whereas before they were pretty relaxed about it.
Mine is upgraded from Windows 10 pro, so may have issues. Might have to consider other options then.
Just received this response on Microsoft Community - "When using the activation trouble shooter, it is normal that you will see the old device on which the license was previously installed. Just select that device, then click activate. This is the process of transferring a digital license from an old device to a new device."
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These upgrades are not affected by the 7/8.1 problems, so far as I know.
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It’s more than likely a bug in the BIOS.
Definitely update the BIOS.
It’s easy and you have BIOS flashback so you can flash a BIOS even if the BIOS update goes wrong (which I’ve done personally).
I’ll never get another motherboard without it - it saves so much pain and effort over having to RMA a motherboard and all that faff.
Just realised that on Asus B550 boards, using M.2 second slot disables SATA port 5 and 6. B550-A pro manual only states by using M.2 2nd slot, "when installing PCIe SSD in M.2_2 slot, PCI_E3 slot will be unavailable". I can live with this. Will any SATA ports be disabled as well?
I believe there's been cases where it was not documented in the manual, or the manual was incorrect, so unfortunately there's no way to know 100%.
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I had this on an Asus board. Fan control for numerous fans was set on auto and worked fine for a while. But then for no apparent reason certain fans ramped up to 100%. I just had to manually select either pwm or DC and the problem went away. I think it's a conflict between q fan and the Asus software.
I think so as well but PWM / DC did not work. Will try and update the bios - mine is 4 year old! My be Quiet 900 pro case has a Fan controller in the case - maybe it might be fault. Will try and connect the fans directly to the case and see. Busy for the next few days but need to sort the damn noise!
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