Recommend me a Motherboard for Ryzen 5 3600?

Baldbloke · 30 May 2021 at 18:45

Hi,

After much fiddling and swearing trying to fix the connect/disconnect problems with front usb ports I've given up.

I'm going to return my MSI B550 A-Pro motherboard which is still under warranty..

Can anyone please recommend a good motherboard for my Ryzen 5 3600 cpu and Nvidia rtx 3060 gpu?

Baldbloke · 30 May 2021 at 19:01

mickyflinn said:
Did you try all the common fixes like bios update and setting the pcie4 speed to pcie3 ?

I thought I'd tried them all but I didn't know about the pcie speed thing. Presumably a bios setting? I'll give it a go.

Baldbloke · 30 May 2021 at 19:10

I tried this. set it to Pcie Gen 3. Still no luck. It's going back.

Anyone suggest a good motherboard up to £150 with reliable usb ports?

Baldbloke · 30 May 2021 at 19:49

VaderDSL said:
If its the front ports, isn't it more likely to be a dodgy connector from the case to the mobo?

Checked that several times.
I understand this is a common issue. I recently started another thread in this section looking for a cure. Several suggestions but none worked for me.

Baldbloke · 1 Jun 2021 at 22:30

Cooler running said:
Suppose if you've had a bad experience with MSI, then the Strix B550-F will be one to look into.

To be fair to MSI, I hadn't pursued the matter after my first contact with them.

I've since mainly been trying fixes as found on web searches.

I decided to contact MSI again on 30th May though.

They very quickly responded with

"Thanks for contacting MSI technical support.

Regarding your concern, please unplug 24 pin power cable, take out motherboard battery for more than five minutes and reinstall it. Then please enter BIOS, press F6 to load optimized defaults, press F10 to save and reset.
After that, please enter Windows, use Windows Update to install all the updates, download and install latest AMD Chipset Driver from MSI website to check again.
If the issue remains, please enter BIOS->OC to set Global C'state to disabled to test. Thanks!

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B550-A-PRO#down-driver&Win10 64

Thanks for your cooperation in advance!

Best Regards,

MSI Technical Support Team"

I'll give it a go in the next couple of days. I've tried most of that previously but not necessarily in that sequence. However this time I'll do it in the order they suggest.

I'll follow their instructions and update this thread with results.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Baldbloke · 3 Jun 2021 at 10:39

Update, MSI suggestions didn't improve the usb issue.

I'm still looking for another motherboard then....