Looking for Guide
I recently fired up an LGA2066 kit, that contains an Asus Prime x299-a mobo and an i9-7900x cpu. The set predates the great Spectre-meltdown hysteria of early 2018 hence its early-stage BIOS is free from the fallout of the patches.
I know the OS patch can be turned on/off via a registry setting. I'd keep the os-level patch activated and deactivate it only for high performance need runs and testing.
I was wondering, is there a way to update the bios to current state but keep the spectre/meltdown patches out of it? Same goes for CPU microcode. Both bios+microcode received several updates since them, AFAIK none are as entangling as the Spectre/Meltdown fix.
My PC was working fine after overclocking the RAM for the first boot, but stopped working after. It turns on, but will quickly turn off.
The motherboard (MSI PRO B650-P WIFI) has the orange and red EZ debug lights on when it does turn on, which are the CPU and DRAM lights according to the manual.
I’ve tried clearing CMOS, removing the battery, reseating RAM, buying new RAM, trying different orientation/configurations of RAM, and had the PC checked out at a tech shop to eliminate other potential issues (bent CPU pins, loose standoffs/connections).
PC still won’t turn on— please help! :)
