Hi
A friend of mine ordered parts to build his first own computer. I went to his place to help him assembling and setting up everything. But the PC didn't boot. We got everything plugged in properly and correctly and the fans were spinning but it didn't boot at all, not even to the BIOS. We tried all video outputs and followed a list of things to check but nothing helped.
He got an i5 7600k and the Asus Z170M Plus. Asus supports 7th gen CPUs on their Z170 Mainboards but you need an updated Bios (V.2002) and his Mainboard currently has V.0.504.
The guy in the shop said we couldn't change the MB with another one and could just flash-update (USB) it without a CPU in. But it didn't even boot into the bios before ... is this possible? If there is no CPU in the socket? I heard certain boards support this feature, how can I find out which ones?
A friend of mine ordered parts to build his first own computer. I went to his place to help him assembling and setting up everything. But the PC didn't boot. We got everything plugged in properly and correctly and the fans were spinning but it didn't boot at all, not even to the BIOS. We tried all video outputs and followed a list of things to check but nothing helped.
He got an i5 7600k and the Asus Z170M Plus. Asus supports 7th gen CPUs on their Z170 Mainboards but you need an updated Bios (V.2002) and his Mainboard currently has V.0.504.
The guy in the shop said we couldn't change the MB with another one and could just flash-update (USB) it without a CPU in. But it didn't even boot into the bios before ... is this possible? If there is no CPU in the socket? I heard certain boards support this feature, how can I find out which ones?
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