Actually I was just checking their own Webshop (Gebrauchte Hardware günstig kaufen | Alpha38) and they also state that USB and VGA do NOT work on MANY of the Motherbpards and that they are not sure, if this is due to the BIOS Version or if it's related to the Hardware Revision of the Motherboard.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.
This reminded me of LuckyLinux adventures.
- 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
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
Crucially that was NOT in the eBay Listing !
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Karton mit 12x ASRock Rack B450D4U-V1L - AMD B450 - DDR4 Ram - BTO Workstation Mainboard Sockel AM4 / Bei diesem Modell geht es um Sonderausfertigung. USB- und VGA-Anschlüsse funktionieren auf vielen Motherboards nicht. Wir sind uns nicht sicher, ob dies auf die Bios-Version oder die Komponentenversion des Boards bezogen ist.
Artikelnummer: 320220089-01
Hersteller: Asrock