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1 downloadsI am posting this so others may learn from my mistakes! I wanted to upgrade to a Windows 11 capable PC. Old system was Asus B150M motherboard (Skylake), Intel 6th gen CPU, on-board graphics, 16GB 2133Mhz RAM and SATA M.2 hard drive. I decided to stick with Asus and picked the B760M motherboard as the most cost effective fit for my needs. Its M.2 slots do not support SATA so the first step was to upgrade my current system to an NVMe M.2. I went with a Samsung EVO 970 Plus and cloned my existing M.2 drive using Aomei Partition Assistant. On advice received here, I also bought a new power supply to replace my 5 ½ year old Corsair. After those changes were made, I ordered the new motherboard and CPU (Intel i3-13100.) When I powered up the new configuration, it wouldn’t boot and I was hearing 1 long and 2 short beeps which indicates a video problem. It turned out that I didn’t have the DIMMs fully seated. Unlike the old motherboard, the new one only had retaining clips on one end and even though they were engaged, the other end was not fully seated. Now it booted into an error screen which told me to run setup. I got into the BIOS and everything looked ok but it still booted to that error screen. Turned out that the default BIOS setting for TPM was hardware rather than firmware. Once changed, it finally booted into Windows. I was still getting the occasional BIOS error screen so on advice I received here, I removed 2 of my 4 DIMMs. That helped but did not fix the problem entirely. I did an online chat with Asus tech support and they said 1) update the BIOS (mine was 3 revisions old) and 2) remove one DIMM. I updated the BIOS but did not remove the other DIMM and the problem was finally fixed. I decided it would be easier to sell my old components if I included the RAM so I bought 2x8GB G.Skill DDR4 PC3200. I enabled the XMP1 profile in the BIOS so it is running at 3200Mhz. I can’t tell the difference but the Passmark memory benchmark is about 25% faster.
So the lessons learned are: 1) make sure the DIMMs are fully seated, 2) verify that TPM is enabled in firmware (unless you have a TPM module), 3) update to the latest BIOS.
I plan to do the Windows 11 upgrade soon after a week or so of everything running stable.
Total cost was $420.
Edited by hamluis, 13 July 2023 - 05:20 PM.
Moved from Bldg/Upgrading to Tips/Tricks - Hamluis.
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