So I tried to build this same setup AMD 7900x ,Asus Prime x670 pro wifi, Ram off the QVL , 1000 watt corsair power supply and I never could get it to POST. hours on the phone with ASUS ( they really aren’t much help) Returned the MB for another same result returned the CPU for another same result.returned the RAM same result . As soon as it powers up get the orange Dramm light no post. flashed the BIOS to the latest a few times. reset Cmos.Finally gave up and sent all the parts back. Did you have and problems with your build?
Did you build with different components instead?
I’ve never had that problem I think. You’ve built before, right?
I have an Asus ROG z790 Hero that won’t POST, but lights up. I’m checking, hopefully today, to find out what’s up with it. I have the same MB in my studio PC, so I can check visually if anything is different. I’m tryna sell it, but it could be a dud board (according to online research). I don’t get that though, don’t Asus test them before going out?
yes I have built them before and never had a problem like this. same components. all on the manufactures QVL list that they will work together. but, like I said even their customer support couldn’t get them to post
ASUS customer support is awful. Just awful.
I tried two different (same model) brand new boards , two different brand new processors (same model) and two brand new ram kits to no avail.
If they treat the influencers like crap then …
That’s a puzzler 
Like I say, I avoid AMD always. Probably a power issue.
There’s really no reason to avoid AMD. You just posted about a “Asus ROG z790 Hero that won’t POST” so… same color grass on that side.
Laptops typically come bundled with a bunch of vendor-specific software that can get in the way of things, including hardware that lacks drivers to function properly on the latest Windows versions.
I had a Lenovo Intel laptop that ran really average on stock setup. Then I upgraded to Win 10 and it just sucked something fierce. Then I finally said f-it and tore the drive out (a hybrid drive) and put in a new SSD and installed Win 11 from scratch. All of a sudden that hog became a good computer. Gone were the finicky software and the sucky hybrid drive. By now it’s an old hog but I figure just swapping the RAM could give it some limited new life for not that much money.
Anyway, the lesson I learned was that I don’t trust Lenovo - not that I don’t trust Intel.
Yes, in the early days, I’ve experienced problems with the orange light staying on - which is apparently indicating the RAM testing/training stage (on that motherboard) during the initial boot process.
I remember wondering, if maybe it was a problem with the RAM being too close to the subwoofer - less than 6" (15cm) away, and that the magnetic field of the subwoofer, possibly interfered with the RAM or some associated motherboard circuitry.
After moving the computer a little further away (now it’s a little over 24" (60cm) from the subwoofer, it started to get beyond the orange light in the bootup process again.
I honestly don’t know, if this was indeed the problem, or just a weird coincidence.
And that’s because every once in a while, after making some hardware changes, I’ve had the being stuck at the orange light happen again. But in those cases, hitting the reset button to reboot again (without any further changes) seemed to make things work again.
One additional note: With default BIOS settings, the RAM training phase (orange LED). happens on every boot. And it takes quite a long time (around a minute or so). Enabling the BIOS setting to bypass the DDR5 training prevented my machine from booting for the longest time. Only with the most recent BIOS update, is this now working on my system., and it successfully bypasses the lengthy DDR5 training, and a reboot is nice and fast now.
So I’ve definitely experienced some weirdness along the way, but had blamed my own limited depth on hardware expertise combined with some bugs in early BIOS.
That being said, my system has been stable and very fast for months now.
p.s. Some of the specialized AMD video gaming drivers have also given me grief (not unlike NVIDIA gaming drivers), so I got rid of those again, although Steinberg says they’re needed to fix some graphics blinking issues in Cubase 13, which I’m also seeing.
So there’s always something, it seems.
But then again, I don’t remember any time in my decades of professional and hobby computer involvement where some things didn’t routinely break whenever significant upgrade cycles rolled around. From mainframes, mini computers, to Atari 1040s to PCs and Macs - across all hardware generations and operating systems.
maybe I should just pull out the old 1040 ste with my black and white hi res monitor
For me, there is. It may be a bit irrational, but it’s based in logic; every Intel system I’ve built has been great, never had any issues. Rock solid and awesome harmonic functioning with everything else. For me, it does exactly what it says it will do. But an AMD system I built for my nephew had driver issues and stability issues from the start. The sound stopped working completely, and an old driver which I had to search everywhere for fixed that. That was my first bad experience with AMD. But that was a good while back. I’m still not sure what happened to the z790 Hero I mentioned, it may have been dropped or something, the jury is out on that. (It was a Reddit post that said it could be just a dud MB. 
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It started happening about a year after bought new, so I tried upgrading the software and drivers, but it just got worse. So I clean installed Win 10 after a while and according to HP and AMD, it should have worked fine with the new drivers and software, but it didn’t at all. There were frequent hardware-related blue screens, frozen screens, unresponsive tunnelling weirdness, letters and numbers missing from the screen and replaced with weird stuff, and it should have been way more powerful than it actually was when it was working in between failures. When I did some error checking, it pointed to the chipset, so after three clean installs and thinking “this is the one, this idea must be it!”, I gave up in the end. BTW, I STILL have an HP Intel Pentium laptop from around 2006 that boots into Windows 7 and asks for more! 
I’d have to have a pretty great experience with AMD to counteract the bad. Maybe they have improved in the last few years. Maybe I’ll try Win 11 on my Laptop. But because I need my PC to definitely work without hassle for a long time with intense hours of use, I’ll naturally stick to what’s worked for me in the past and avoid what hasn’t. ROG boards and mid to high-spec Intel CPUs have never failed me, personally. Crazy, my oldest ROG MB is still about £300 on eBay lol; the Maximus II Formula (LGA775) which I still have. 
You can easily install windows 11 but it needs to be a clean installation. Its more of a hassle doing an upgrade and all updates work fine. I did it with my 6th gen and old toshiba laptop from around 2011. Only issue with laptop is its maxed out at 8gb of ram so for most things its not worth it.
Ditto, Windows 11 on a ThinkPad X220 of the same vintage, with 16GB RAM despite the claim it would only support 8GB. Actually more than just usable for basic stuff (I’ve got Cubase LE 13 on it for fun).
Bequiet makes excellent stuff!! Even if Noctua is my favorite, bequiet is on par with Noctua (just my opinion!). Their latest air coolers are amazing (not that the others weren’t). Their fans (no need for words)…. I just don’t like their liquid coolers and honestly I try to avoid AIO when silence is a must as many rads need to run at full speed and that adds to the sound. When it comes to AIO, I prefer corsair.
If that is the case, then you should be thankful as Steinberg paved the way for more viable options…. I think competition brings better prices. Intel used to be like this until AMD made its big return and has been winning lately.
Really… this is the funniest comment. that the one that creates trash music is not at fault for his incapacity to do decent stuff. Lol……………. Its probably my fault………. Please.
Well at least we agree on a few things. You can find a few good stuff here and there (note: never amazing) but it’s still rare. Up to the 80s there was plenty of music. The decline started in the 90s sadly. I could even point you to some indie bands that do good stuff but again this is rare. You want quality, Ill give you an example. Pink Floyd released DSOTM in 1973 which is a masterpiece( 4th best selling album in history).Don’t get me wrong its not the sales but the quality of music. You don’t find that anymore. Starting the 80s (nov/29/79) they released The wall (quality speaks for itself). Then the 90s even missing the brains of PF, in 1994 they release Division Bell which I will just mention 2 songs which are masterpieces (Marooned and High hopes). The complex composition, solos, arrangements (and I skipped other excellent albums). Please if there is a band now that has that same quality, please, please, please mention it as I would honestly like to listen to it. And that is just PF, there are so many good bands (other genres too) I could mention.
Now you are blaming Steinberg for the demise of good bands… Really… This is how far your frustration against Steinberg/Cubase goes… Wow, just wow.
Not really… they just got old (after many years some got separated (health and other issues, problems, tired), other members died, etc)
Why would I agonize if good music is there, and you don’t get tire of masterpieces. There is so much to listen…. But you probably wouldn’t know apparently….
Probably around 2 months ago I was looking for some opinions on reddit and lets say by coincidence I found a guy making his own music and selling it on Bandcamp. I’m always checking out new stuff and listened to it and liked it! The first thing I did was to save his music for later purchase. Why? Because I believe good creators should be supported so they keep doing it. And went back to where I found his post and gave him the deserved praise and credit for his music.
Don’t get me wrong, you could probably be that guy still making good music, but I haven’t heard it yet to make an opinion.
Well thanks for confirming the facts that you also dislike most of today’s music. That wasn’t so hard.
Why would I complain about it……. Things like this should be applauded! What is good deserves praise and the contrary to bad stuff.
Me… I prefer the real stuff and not the VST… But now going by my music choices that shouldn’t be so hard to decipher. I hate high prices and companies that take advantage of customers, and I try to avoid them.
Entirely false. If there is good stuff, I will listen to it and praise it but as you already mentioned before there is so little. You just have to be realistic and stop living in a dream, I base everything on facts. Most music is trash nowadays and to find decent (not amazing) stuff you need to dig very deep.
I also like really like watching good movies, so when i was really young i took it upon myself to watch all oscar winning movies, watch movies by the better directors and so on. Im still missing, but you get the idea. So with music its the same. To form a good opinion, you need to educate yourself the correct way.
End of rant.
Take care and good night!
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Not true about the full speed , with the Be Silent they are silent and the dual fans on a 240mm rad keep the the temp down very nicely on the hardest of render running at 800 rpm and who’s going to be creating in the DAW while rendering anyway ?
I used to be a Corsair lover hence the case , Ram and modular PSU (which has now been updated to a Evga Gold 750 BUT , if i have the choice of German engineering for my needs that’s the way i go , (I have 48u Of Doepfer only Modular and no Moogs insight ).After all, German engineering brought us the Rocket propulsion and well … Kraftwerk, what’s not to like .
Here’s a fun thing i’m thinking of building something totally off the wall , due to my new disability and having plenty of time on my hands , i’m going to try and add a refrigeration unit in a separate room with a shunt pump to see how cool i can get a Cpu to run under load , which will mean the only case fans needed would be for convection around the motherboard .
Honestly i dont know if their pumps are pwm, or fixable speed, but if you are able to control the speed that is great! I do know there’s all kind of pumps available even for custom loops. Things I dislike is the position of the pump (this is because of copyrights) and the 3 year warranty vs corsair 5. Not saying they are bad. Their quality is amazing and to be honest bequiet does have a better appearance and esthetic when compared to Noctua. I do love the hated brown poop color from Noctua (lol).
Agree! EVGA is probably the company with the best customer service IMHO. Their psu are amazing (with OEMs like Superflower and Seasonic). So, what’s not to like. You get 10-year warranty with all their premium psu. Sad to see them depart the gpu business. Only reason I didn’t consider evga for a psu is that I have an itx case which needed SFX psu and the best ones are corsair and asus in that size (like everyone wanted a reliable unit that would last me.)
Sorry to hear about this… Hope you get well! I would love to see pictures of your experiment! Love this kind of things.
Funny you mentioned fans for motherboard… when I started building my 13th gen pc at the beginning of last year, I had serious issues with cpu temps. I hate 120 AIO liquid coolers, but this was the only option for the dan a4 sfx case. This resolved the cpu temps issue but because of the distance between the rad and psu, psu needed to be inverted so all the hot air from the rad would exhaust through the psu. You can imagine a psu which fan doesn’t even start because it’s a little overkill for my build and all that hot air going through it. Psu was getting extremely hot to the touch. I tried with some Noctua 40mm fans on top to help exhaust the hot air which help but not that much. I ended up getting a copper cooler and removing the AIO. The top m2 ssd even with the heatsink was incredibly hot and the back heat sink too (Noctua to the rescue). I’ll try to upload a picture of how my asus B760i rog looks before/after during building process 
. I still need to purchase some custom psu cables to fix cable management.
Sorry, I just have to ask: Why would you get an expensive case like that and expensive cooling and then “fight it” when building it? Why not just get a large case with plenty of space for decent cable management and lots of volume for air to flow?
It looks like a nightmare to me. An expensive one at that.
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Bejeeeeeze ,thats compact , no wonder you have sound issues lol 
Those little 40mm look cute lol
Please don’t look at my drives they are just spares
I upgraded from the Noctua 3000 industrial fan on the Corsair 100i
to the Be Silent Loop 2 and the Wing 4 fan with brilliant results
This isn’t a show piece , it’s a work horse , if there was going to be any airflow issues round the motherboard i was going to cut a 120mm hole on the cover behind the motherboard and mount a 120mm ARTIC pwm fan on thew outside of the case to gently get the air flow round the solder which would of helped . BUT i9900 with SL max at 72 degrees while rendering noisy Speech … i can handle that
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First i bought it used for a really great price and pristine condition. It is the latest version with a 3m pci riser 4.0 . I would never pay full price for this case. IIRC, there was only around a 20 bucks difference between this one and the cooler master NR200 at the time. My last case was the node 202 which i discontinued using because of the lack of a 4.0 riser. The other reason is me being a SFF enthusiast which many will or wont understand. If i need to go bigger i would just sell it. The copper cooler, i just paid around 35 bucks and used the noctua fan available from another cooler i had laying around. I would have love to go with the Ryzen 9 7900 (non x) version but itx am5 boards were just too expensive at the beginning of the year and honestly there are limits.