MSI MPG x870e Carbon WiFi Owners

Cenuij · Saturday at 20:53

Datamonkey said:
Ok getting there,

Clear CMOS and all appears to be good to go. All devices are working in the BIOS now KB/Mouse and able to boot from USB

Great! Enjoy

Cenuij · Sunday at 01:40

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Datamonkey said:
Wow!! Forgot what a faff setting up raid on an AMD board is!
3 drivers to load in a specific order! Its coming back to me though!
Getting there now!

Ah yes, I gave up on system hardware raid a while back as I found it a little bit inflexible. Don't really need it for windows + games on my 4T Samsung, 600G for EFI/Windows/Linux partitions the rest as a data volume to preserve games/drivers/installers etc between windows reinstall

I software raid (1) the other two 980s in Linux for container/VM images though as it would be time consuming to rebuild them all, I _should_ punt the images to the Synology box to be honest as I'm doing next to nothing work related on this *cough* workstation *cough* anymore

Cenuij · Sunday at 13:22

Datamonkey said:
Yeah, I’m thinking I’ll see what gen 5 4TB m.2 drives pop up for Black Friday.
Getting a few file corruption issues with games downloaded from Steam, never had that before.

I take it S.M.A.R.T. reports are OK for both drives?

Cenuij · Sunday at 16:38

You can test with Ryzen Master aye, haven't installed it myself yet... Just did a quick -40 curve +200 Mhz boost override in the BIOS earlier to check temps but an OCCT combined ram+memory test wasn't happy so I've just reverted the CPU to stock settings until I've got more time to figure out what this CPU is stable with.

Cenuij · Monday at 17:27

I have a tiny bit left of the plastic peel as well, I just left it as my glass panel is tinted and I can only see anything that lights up through it

Cenuij · Monday at 18:45

Aaaahhhh I want to register the board with MSI so I can request the missing thermistor cable, product registration requires a "CHK" number, which is apparently on the board serial sticker, which is on the back of the board :rolleyes:

If anyone reads this and hasn't installed their board yet, can they see what the CHK value is (3 characters) on the serial sticker? I'm assuming this is release version specific, like a Dell support code, so it should be the same across all these release boards.

Cenuij · Monday at 19:40

Dr_Watson said:
Mine is on the MB power connector, no need to remove the board.

great, thanks found it /facepalm

Mine is 3B0 fwiw

Cenuij · Monday at 20:15

Dr_Watson said:
62A

So not release specific

Cenuij · Monday at 21:24

Dr_Watson said:
What’s the purpose of the thermistor? Is it just a tc to show the temp at whatever area you leave the sensor end? Where is the temp displayed?

Yeah, it's exactly this. I've used one in the last couple of builds and had it somewhat half way between the top of the case and the GPU card, then used that in case fan profiles. Temp is not shown until a cable is connected, and is not not always listed in desktop utilities, but almost always available as a sensor for fan profiles.