Any PC Gamers Around?

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by soundman98

sffpc? had to look that one up... small form factor pc? been there, done that!

i've had more processing power in my car than most had at home. had to be no taller than 1.5" so the seat could clear, but was a complete system with a dc-dc psu. was pretty cutting edge for 2009...

Aww yeaaaaa! I was driving around with a headless laptop shoved under the backseat! And me and my friend hacked apart and crammed an entire Dell Tower in the first aid compartment of his trunk! Carputers were the shit back then!

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

Aww yeaaaaa! I was driving around with a headless laptop shoved under the backseat! And me and my friend hacked apart and crammed an entire Dell Tower in the first aid compartment of his trunk! Carputers were the shit back then!

i cut my teeth on mp3car. the community there was awesome in so many ways with people pushing the absolute boundaries of everything. very few forums had or still have such a diverse group of members. now, i think mo-co-so is the only company left, and mostly because they shifted to industrial pc applications before everyone else started falling apart.

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i cut my teeth on mp3car. the community there was awesome in so many ways with people pushing the absolute boundaries of everything. very few forums had or still have such a diverse group of members. now, i think mo-co-so is the only company left, and mostly because they shifted to industrial pc applications before everyone else started falling apart.

Yeah I used to troll MP3Car and even met up with a guy from there that would make adapters for the HD Radios so you could control them from the front ends. Good times. We made such complicated setups that a few years later are replaced by all but a phone.

[jflogerzi]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

Yeah I used to troll MP3Car and even met up with a guy from there that would make adapters for the HD Radios so you could control them from the front ends. Good times. We made such complicated setups that a few years later are replaced by all but a phone.

Yup and now AA auto and car play

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[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by alexa11221

Yes! I love games and have been audited since last 10 years

dafuq

[Yoshoobaroo]

Any thoughts on the Steam Deck? My wife convinced me to put a reservation in ‘Cause I don’t want to hear it if you can’t get one’. I ended up reserving the 256 version.

I play mostly on the couch so when the kids are hogging the TV a handheld would be nice. I wonder if a gamestream client will be available too.

[jflogerzi]

I put my money down on the middle bucket. It's gonna best handheld due to the GPU being rdna 2 based think PS4 and Xbox level GPU power...

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[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

Any thoughts on the Steam Deck?

I looked at it, and didn't see anything I would use it for. I do on a rare occasion use Steam Link to play some casual games on our 75" OLED TV which is nice (ex. Jackbox games).

I have the hardware version and also have sideloaded it onto a Firestick.

Since I don't particularly like playing games with a controller both options have limited use for me.

[Yoshoobaroo]

So I’m getting a sporadic failure to post after swapping motherboards 2 months ago. It seems to be getting worse very slowly.

Almost every cold boot attempt, it will get stuck on a blank screen with the American megatrends logo, nothing else. No F-key prompts, no response to keyboard inputs, nothing. Pressing the reset button resets it and then 9 times out of 10 it boots normally. Once in windows it’s rock solid, stress testing the CPU, GPU, or memory shows no faults or errors.

Any ideas? Google has failed me. Ive tried clearing CMOS, reflashing Bios, reassembling the whole computer, removing ram sticks, nothing helps. I’ve got a motherboard speaker coming in the Mail to see if it throws post beep codes. If that doesn’t get me any new info I’m going to replace the MB probably.

Gigabyte Aorus B550i mini ITX
Ryzen 3800X
ASUS 2080 super
Oloy 3200mhz DDR4
Phanteks 750W PSU

[soundman98]

typically, post errors are going to be limited to bios/motherboard, cpu, and memory. graphics card shouldn't affect it, nor should the power supply.

if it's freezing on the AM logo, i'm doubtful that it's getting far enough along to throw the beep code, but doesn't hurt to try

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

So I’m getting a sporadic failure to post after swapping motherboards 2 months ago. It seems to be getting worse very slowly.

Almost every cold boot attempt, it will get stuck on a blank screen with the American megatrends logo, nothing else. No F-key prompts, no response to keyboard inputs, nothing. Pressing the reset button resets it and then 9 times out of 10 it boots normally. Once in windows it’s rock solid, stress testing the CPU, GPU, or memory shows no faults or errors.

Any ideas? Google has failed me. Ive tried clearing CMOS, reflashing Bios, reassembling the whole computer, removing ram sticks, nothing helps. I’ve got a motherboard speaker coming in the Mail to see if it throws post beep codes. If that doesn’t get me any new info I’m going to replace the MB probably.

Gigabyte Aorus B550i mini ITX
Ryzen 3800X
ASUS 2080 super
Oloy 3200mhz DDR4
Phanteks 750W PSU

Did you try any other ram or processor? When I first built my PC I had a post issue but it was the RAM.

[ChazzDiss]

Might as well try another GPU as well. Test out all the parts. Make sure you are not just testing one part.

[Yoshoobaroo]

I don’t really suspect the ram or GPU, or cpu, since this all started when I switched the mobo. I don’t have spare parts to test with unfortunately. It’s just such a weird failure, and really hard to reproduce

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I don’t really suspect the ram or GPU, or cpu, since this all started when I switched the mobo. I don’t have spare parts to test with unfortunately. It’s just such a weird failure, and really hard to reproduce

Have you turned on the the option to show basically "verbose startup" in your motherboard settings (not sure what it's called on your motherboard)? This will give you an old school startup that shows steps and may give you a hint where it's stopping. Usually if you are getting a logo this isn't turned on.