I was going to progress an AMD Ryzen 3-1200 build into the bargain case, let's just throw a photo onto the blog and discuss everything that went wrong.
Usually builds go very well, like assembling something in lego, but this build has been an education in nothing working properly, I reckon most of it is because of the Asrock motherboard, but also a little bit of blame can be placed on the Corsair memory.
Long story short, SATA M.2 did not want to work, NVME M.2 did not allow the motherboard to POST, PCIE3 slot has no power, I flashed the BIOS, rolled the BIOS back, discovered the RAM was not compatible. Then when I replaced the RAM I discovered that the SATA M.2 did not allow ANY of the other SATA connectors to work, so I installed a mechanical hard drive.
Let us fast forward to what I believe are happier times :
No M.2 solid state drives installed, PCIE3 still not working, Nvidia GT 1030 installed and although case has a total of 7 fans, it is running quiet. I should take some time and cost this build out and publish that next post, for now here is a photo of the finished article :
However, issues continued with this build and I realised that because of the odd power issues with the PCIe slots. I would not be able to install an internal WiFi card. I could have installed a USB adapter I suppose, but I decided to deconstruct the project and order a new motherboard. I will document progress in a future blog.
