Thought I'd share an interesting
observation.
Ordered another 2 boards, a week or so ago, just before the stock dried up.
I received 2 boards, and this time, there was a USB3 cable included.
my existing boards are all Ryzen 3000 series cpu now.
I still had a Ryzen 2600x left for testing etc. gave one of the boards a spin up.
- No video, but boards seems to be posting looking at the debug led activity.
- keyboard and mouse on the built-in USB3 port : not working
- used the provided usb3 cable, that worked.
- had to add a PCIE gpu (old MSI passive cooled thing), to get video posting on screen
This reminded me of LuckyLinux adventures.
was thinking, let's update to bios 2.12 on the Ryzen 2600x, flashed ok, but after rebooting, board gets stuck on b0 (reseat cpu or ram), tried 3 differents dimms. nothing, was convinced i bricked one board. I tried the second last board, left the bios as is (2.09), same story gpu and usb3 cable required in order to do anything, but more or less functional board.
this evening tried a ryzen 3100 cpu on the board i thought i bricked, and connected the vga monitor to the onboard adapter, removed the gpu, left out the usb3 cable and connected keyboard to the onboard usb3 port, and guess what: it boots fine, video posts, keyboard words and easily installed proxmox from a netboot.xyz environment.
lessons learned:
ryzen 3000 series are the sweet spot for these boards