FS-106-OG OcUK Gaming Scimitar - troubles.

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OK this PC has been brilliant but yesterday it started throwing errors, and now is borked. Checked updates, enabled TPM 2.0 and allowed the upgrade to W11. Upgrade completed successfully. shut down after a long evening and picked up today.

I think we have a busted DDR4 stick and the NVMe does not seem to be recognised by the BIOS.
Its been warm and the filter was pretty dusty - so new parts may be required.

Applied a windows update and tired to install League of legends client.

It crashed and then refused to boot - it would post but not get past the BIOS screen.

Pulled the RAM and re-seated - noted its showing only 16Gb RAM in slot B2

Ram is in A2 and B2

So, will POST ok with both sticks but still only shows 16Gb

Dropped the memory voltage to 1.2v and set everything back to auto, from the pre-configured OC as delivered.
No change, boots to BIOS but does not boot the OS.

So I pulled the NVMe drive and re-seated.
Put it all back together and the same result.

Patched the mobo BIOS to latest. (yes I should have done that sooner) No change.
Found the NVME self test - shows the device as a Force 600 but size is 0Gb and selt test generate a result of "not available" or "Error" if you select the detailed version

Do I need new memory and NVME ?
Thinking I will outlay for NVME only 1st and see if it will recognise the drive.

Spec follows:

FS-106-OG OcUK Gaming Scimitar - Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 3090
CA-24T-CS Corsair RM Series RM850 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020196-UK) 1
CP-3CB-AM AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core 4.7GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail 1
GX-44X-AS *Build Stock* Asus GeForce RTX 3090 ROG Strix Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Gra p1hics Card
HD-069-CS Corsair Force MP600 series 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F2000GBMP60 10)
MB-6DU-AS Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard 1
MY-29C-KS Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit 1
 
Do I need new memory and NVME ?
Thinking I will outlay for NVME only 1st and see if it will recognise the drive.
Trying a new SSD first seems like the best option. But, I must say I found it very hard to follow the sequence of events from the description in your post, so I can't say exactly what is related to what.
 
Trying a new SSD first seems like the best option. But, I must say I found it very hard to follow the sequence of events from the description in your post, so I can't say exactly what is related to what.
Agree with the SSD.

I think the SDD is incompatible with W11 - there is some mention of this online.

So we ordered a Samsun 990 Pro from Amazon - fast delivery etc - got it installed and the Samsung wizard identified it as a counterfeit drive. So that is on its way back now.

Memory - I screwed up in resetting voltage to default 1.2v - min for those sticks is 1.35V - Ive put that back re-seated and all memory is now recognised and working.

One critique of the Asus 570-F: You have to pull the GPU out to get to the NVMe SSD drive slots - probably not of much interest as this is an old mobo now but all the same.
 
Just to update the memory needed 3.5v the Corsair drive seems to have a compatibility problem with TPM 2.0

Getting TPM on the Asus 570-F recognised by windows was another challenge - in the end a BIOS reset was needed.
 
Yeh we looked at that - W11 went on fine and it ran a day or so before borking and showing the drive dead. When we turned on fTPM firmware enabled we made a point of not enabling bit-locker. If windows did something in the background I have no idea...
 
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