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So here's a new issue. I have a DP2710 monitor that I use with my Samsung 22 as the secondary. However, whenever I try to run the dP2710 to my new PC via HDMI or mini HDMI it won't work. It's detected as a generic PnP monitor, but I can't make it display anything. However when I plug it into my old machine it pops up immediately via HDMI. It works just fine via DVI on my new machine but I just can't get it to work via HDMI. I can't for the life of me figure out why HDMI would work on one machine but not the other, and I know it's not the hdmi slot because I tried it on the HDMI on my Zotac and the mini-HDMI on my PNY, with both giving me the same "Generic PNP with no output" issue.

Anyone know what this could possibly be?
 
jeydax

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Eomer_sl said:
I had similar issues with a high end new build a few months ago, with an Intel 750 SSD. Not sure which thread I posted about it in. In any case, that computer WILL NOT, no matter what, ever cold boot the first time. It hangs somewhere in or just after the POST, I think. To boot my computer up now, I first hit the power button, wait 5-10 seconds, and then hit the reset button, and on the restart it boots fine. I gave up trying to resolve it.
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Same issue here. I believe the issue may be something goofy with the RAM as someone else pointed out. I haven't had time to pick up a couple different sticks to test that theory. I also think my issue is partly that one of my DP cables has the power pin which causes my MOBO to think it has surged too.
 
Palum

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It since stopped happening to me for a week. I recently had it pop up. I changed my bios to full post and it stopped doing it immediately. When I changed it back to quick post it did it again.

It almost just seems time based as if there's a background process to initialize the SSDs or something. Curiously despite being all identical, my plain boot disk takes longer to pop up as OK on full post than my two which are accessed through the hardware raid controller on the mobo, or my mag drive. It is the first on the list though.
 
Noodleface

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My guess is that bios goes to enumerate the drive and it's not ready, but with a full post there is more going on and enough time for the drive to come up. That's just a guess.
 
meStevo

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Naturally, 2 days before a LAN party for my birthday my computer's performance goes to shit, resets bios on every boot and framerate is garbage. This is so lame. It runs like the OS is on a broken regular HDD rather than a SDD.

These random readings below are a bit slow, no?

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meStevo_sl said:
Naturally, 2 days before a LAN party for my birthday my computer's performance goes to shit, resets bios on every boot and framerate is garbage. This is so lame. It runs like the OS is on a broken regular HDD rather than a SDD.

These random readings below are a bit slow, no?

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How full is your ssd?
 
meStevo

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Around half of the 500gb is full. Tonight I was going to move every install I can off of it to my other drive anticipating a replacement / resetting Windows.
 
meStevo

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It's about a year old. I'm kinda fearful it's not the SSD.

On boot the BIOS reset to defaults, has me hit F1/F2 to setup/continue.

I got this to go away at one point adjusting some settings but before I called it a night it came back when I tweaked some things including putting my SSD first in the boot order instead of Windows Boot Manager.

Moved Diablo III to another drive from the SSD and the performance problems followed it.

Updated everything I could touch... MSI updater, audio, video drivers. Only created more problems like an audio echo in Rocket League, a known bug with a couple of causes.

I've been kinda ignoring the F1/F2 screen for a week or more, thinking I just needed to change the battery on my motherboard and there were no issues with performance.

Feels like a bigger problem, gdi. Tonight I am going to reset everything to defaults and start from there, both Windows and the BIOS (which is happening automatically for me anyways!)

Worst case tomorrow before the LAN I'll be moving some components over into my older computer. Maybe snag a cheap SSD on the way home for that effort / to try my current box w/out this 850 EVO m.2.

I do have one issue in the device manager, intel management engine won't start. Don't remember seeing that before and couldn't get that worked out last night.
 
Noodleface

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Only other thoughts are CMOS Battery is dead, a CMOS jumper was magically set incorrectly (doubtful, if you've been in there), small chance you have a short going to the CMOS battery.
 
spronk

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i've had similar problems before, usually its one of four things

1. PSU going bad, not supplying enough through certain rails and ports
2. memory going bad, maybe one stick. a memtest or something like that can be good to figure this out
3. dust in the machine. little specs can get places that short out the mobo as it touches the case and cause weird things. I have taken to taking apart my PC once every 6 months, cleaning everything down with a wet wipe, then a dry wipe, then using a air blower and a vacuum to suck up all the dust. having a dog (or small kids) really fucks things up even more, i occasionally find dog hair inside the PC
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4. fucking asshole ghosts

my main PC is acting all fucked up only when it comes to USB3 ports right now, even after I went through 1-3 its still a bit wonky and I just decided to replace the whole thing.
 
meStevo

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Reset BIOS to default, uninstalled and reinstalled the Intel ME stuff a couple times and now that is working properly.

Machine still chugging and still w/ the F1/F2 menu. Going to swap out that battery again I guess and probably start moving things over to another PC for the LAN this weekend.

It takes Diablo 3 like 4 minutes to start and it acts like it stops responding whenever I zone, and when I do finish zoning it says I have 1k latency and takes 15-20 seconds to really calm down and load everything, open a bag and everything slowly pops in, etc.

Fun times. Happy birthday to me.
 
Noodleface

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Yeah I didn't really think the ME was doing anything (it doesn't do much that would affect you), but it's something that needs to be running. I'd guess mobo is going if the battery doesn't fix it. Could be psu too. If you have a spare psu you could try that.
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
Only other thoughts are CMOS Battery is dead, a CMOS jumper was magically set incorrectly (doubtful, if you've been in there), small chance you have a short going to the CMOS battery.
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Yeah resetting bios is a dead giveaway for the CMOS battery. Check that for sure
 
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meStevo_sl said:
Reset BIOS to default, uninstalled and reinstalled the Intel ME stuff a couple times and now that is working properly.

Machine still chugging and still w/ the F1/F2 menu. Going to swap out that battery again I guess and probably start moving things over to another PC for the LAN this weekend.

It takes Diablo 3 like 4 minutes to start and it acts like it stops responding whenever I zone, and when I do finish zoning it says I have 1k latency and takes 15-20 seconds to really calm down and load everything, open a bag and everything slowly pops in, etc.

Fun times. Happy birthday to me.
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Only other thing I'd do to rule out the SSD drive being bad is try plugging the drive into a different port. But since you said it's an M.2 drive, that may not be an option.
 
meStevo

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Ruled out the PSU. Only get a couple of spikes over 1k playing Diablo gogusrl.

It's like there's no bandwidth between components, making everything hang. Think I'm going to try and RMA the motherboard at this point. Have done everything but toss in a new HDD.
 
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