![]() Without another (older) Haswell CPU there was no way to get the mainboard to POST and update the BIOS. Still, nothing.Ī look into the ASUS H81M's manual revealed the real issue, the BIOS version was probably too old for the CPU. Troubleshooting ensued, the system was stripped to the minimum, power cables checked, RAM re-seated, CPU re-seated. No POST, no beep codes, absolutely nothing. ![]() The unused board used the exact same chipset, had the same form-factor and feature set, except for more video outputs.Īfter swapping the boards (and re-applying fresh thermal compound), we got. I had an unused ASUS H81M-PLUS in my spare parts bin, collecting dust because it has been replaced by a full-size ATX board (with 4 DIMM slots, 6 SATA ports, etc.). The old mainboard only had a single VGA output (and a slightly odd behaving BIOS), so was forced to use a Nvidia GPU (under Linux, with noveau), which isn't ideal at all. We wanted to replace desktop PC mainboard (ASRock H81M-VG4) with a different one. This project started (as so often happens) with a simple, 30min task.
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