Issues with 5600X upgrades
Issues with 5600X upgrades
Thanks again for the assistance. This whole situation has had me pulling my hair out. My computer knowledge is wide, but not very deep. As an old IT friend used to say, I know just enough to be dangerous. I have tried resetting all bios' both by jumper and by removing the CMOS battery. This has not changed the behavior at all. All motherboard bios versions I have used have come directly from the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max support page on the MSI website, so unless MSI is posting the wrong bios on their support page, I'm pretty sure they are the correct versions. I even re-downloaded and reinstalled a few to make sure I got clean copies. Only the 1070ti video bios (p.s.: it's an EVGA 1070ti SC Black, doesn't look like I mentioned that earlier) was obtained from a non-manufacturer site, Tech Power-Up. All bios versions I have tried worked flawlessly with the 2600X, with the exception of the most recent version, 7C02v3E. This was completely unusable with the 2600X, only a quarter of the screen displayed, and neither mouse nor keyboard would register. Using this bios forced me to use a USB flashing utility, not Flashback or M-Flash, to roll back the bios. According to the MSI support page, this version has forced Secure Boot, which requires UEFI mode. This was an issue earlier, and may have something with the 2600X incompatibility. It may also be why all bios versions now register being in UEFI mode now, when all refused to do so earlier. It acts like there is a corrupt or incorrect video driver. Since the bios is pre-OS, are there basic video drivers built in to bios software? If so, is it possible it is misreading the video card version and running an incorrect driver? If so, why would this primarily be an issue only with the 5600X? As I am typing this, I'm wondering if it may be an HDMI issue? I have only been using HDMI out through this ordeal. I don't have any display port monitors, but I do have an old DVI monitor. I'll give that a try.
Bingo, that worked out. It looked like an HDMI connection all along. Bios functions smoothly with the 5600X via DVI. Also, it’s running in UEFI mode now and correctly identifies the GOP on the 1070ti. I can enable the TPM module and Secure Boot—things I couldn’t do before. It should be ready for Windows 11 now. Got it. I’ll need to switch back to the DVI monitor whenever I adjust the bios.