[For Sale] MSI B550 gaming plus with weird issue

[Dewpyx]

Item: MSI B550 gaming plus
Age: 2 or 3 years, warranty just ended I think
Price: idk I've never sold something faulty, very negotiable - I guess R1000 if I MUST add a price here, as said, very negotiable...in either direction.
Payment Method Accepted: Whatever
Warranty: Warranty just ended I think
Packaging: Original box
Condition: Sometimes works sometimes doesn't, no idea why and more detail at the bottom
Location: CPT
Reason: Bought replacement already
Shipping: Ideally no
Collection: Yea
Link: MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS AMD AM4 DDR4 M.2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 HDMI ATX Gaming Motherboard

This board has some weird issue that I have no clue on and two people I took it to strip and rebuild couldn't tell me either, all just guess work.

I'd say 6-8 months ago the issue started in that it would not make it to the bios screen, reseating the RAM would sometimes fix it or just multiple restarts and then it would work 100% again until the power was off for an extended amount of time which caused the issue to return. Sometimes it would get stuck on the DRAM light, other times on CPU, rarely on GPU.

Eventually the issue resolved itself and it was working fine again with no issue.

About a month or two back from today, issue returned and nothing I done seemed to work. I took it to a computer shop to update bios, strip the PC, clean and rebuild. This fixed the issue for that day. The next day, issue returned. Took it to another guy to test and he got it working again with his CPU, benchmarked and scores was as expected. I only tested it somedays after this and it worked again for that day only to have the issue again the next day.

Bought a new mobo and sent this one in for warranty claim only to be denied due to a unrelated issue - bent header pin (lol don't buy MSI)

While in for warranty/testing or whatever, they claim it eventually was working again.

I have not tried it since as I got a replacement. Also my timelines and order of events is guess work.

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[The_True_Stefan]

Did you try another GPU? I once had a vega56 GPU that would work on EVERYONE's motherboard except mine.. I got similar results to yours..
Sometimes re-seating the ram would work but eventually it turned out to be a compatibility issue between the mobo and gpu.

 

[TheJudge]

Did you try another GPU? I once had a vega56 GPU that would work on EVERYONE's motherboard except mine.. I got similar results to yours..
Sometimes re-seating the ram would work but eventually it turned out to be a compatibility issue between the mobo and gpu.

Also had this when there is an issue between the PSU and GPU. Causes kak all over the place.

 

[Dewpyx]

Did you try another GPU? I once had a vega56 GPU that would work on EVERYONE's motherboard except mine.. I got similar results to yours..
Sometimes re-seating the ram would work but eventually it turned out to be a compatibility issue between the mobo and gpu.

No didn't try with another GPU though the GPU ( ASUS 1060 6gb) I had in it ran perfectly fine for 2-3? years and is still being used today in a old 4th gen mobo. Please feel free to pop me a PM if you do have any other suggestions though, to avoid cluttering up the sale thread.

Also had this when there is an issue between the PSU and GPU. Causes kak all over the place.

the PSU I have is old as shit though again that was also perfectly fine for the 2-3? years and is now being used in the replacement mobo although with a GTS450 instead of 1060.

 

[Dewpyx]

On hold for ChinaNum#1 until tomorrow.

 

[Musticlas]

Did you try it with different memory? I recently sold a Gigabyte Z270 that wouldn't post when RAM was in dual channels with the memory I was using, only posted when RAM was configured for single channel. But the buyer got it to work perfectly fine with whichever different brand of RAMs they were using.

Seems there's sometimes a compatibility issue between mobo and RAM too.

 

[𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓵.𝓒𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓪𝔂𝓭𝓮]

Bro have you tried a BIOS update? AMD mobos tend to be more stable on new BIOS revisions

 

[Dewpyx]

Did you try it with different memory? I recently sold a Gigabyte Z270 that wouldn't post when RAM was in dual channels with the memory I was using, only posted when RAM was configured for single channel. But the buyer got it to work perfectly fine with whichever different brand of RAMs they were using.

Seems there's sometimes a compatibility issue between mobo and RAM too.

Yea made no difference and was also running for the 2-3 years without issue. My RAM worked in another board and works in replacement.

Bro have you tried a BIOS update? AMD mobos tend to be more stable on new BIOS revisions

Two other people did and I did myself, made no difference.

Board sold, thread closed.