This past week I upgraded to a Ryzen 3900X and purchased a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master, and I also swapped into a new case (Cooler Master NR600). Kept everything the same: EVGA NEX650G, WD Green 2TB, Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970, and 16gb of DDR4 from Patriot (cannot remember the exact model/ clock).
This was intended to become a personal machine learning build so I didn't need to use cloud services, etc. It's currently running Ubuntu 18.04, and I wanted to swap over to Manjaro with KDE. I flashed Ubuntu onto a 32gb Patriot USB drive and installed off of that. Everything was working after I swapped platforms (kind of surprised this was the case; I came over from an i7 6700k and was not expecting it to pick up so smoothly between AMD and Intel, though I'm not incredibly familiar with all of this). I recently reformatted and re-used the same drive to try to install Manjaro. I'm on macOS so I was using unetbootin at first, and everything was working fine, however, I could not seem to fix the "unknown filesystem" into GRUB rescue when I booted off of it.
That was last night, and I threw in the towel to go hang out with some friends (classes canceled for coronavirus; defeats the purpose of the cancellation, I know). This morning I was doing some research on that to try to fix it and decided to try out flashing the image to the drive with balenaEtcher after seeing a few recommendations for it (and because I could actually use it on macOS without emulators/ virtual machines for Windows). My PC was plugged in, but not on. I plugged the Manjaro KDE drive into a USB 3.0 slot, and my PC turned "off."
As seems to be usual, when the PC is plugged but not on/ running, the power button on the mobo will glow and battery is running the system clock, of course. For this motherboard, it flashes for a bit when powered off and then will hold it's light steadily on (to my knowledge, this is not indicative of a problem, and I ignored it since everything otherwise seemed to be fine). When I plugged in the USB (before I even turned it on), that light immediately turned off. It was still plugged in, etc. but it won't even boot now... won't turn on... nothing -> I'm really worried that something happened to my motherboard. It's as though it's not plugged in/ receiving power at all.
Over the two days that it's been functional (only so much time to sit around and plug things in), I've noticed a few strange things--maybe strange is not the right word, but things, in my experience, that seem to not be 100% right. 1. When I would shut it off, it would need to "chill out" (it just needed to sit for a minute; definitely not cool, because it was running idle at 34C so cooling, etc. was absolutely fine) before I could turn it back on. Seemed out of the ordinary and I don't remember anything like this with Windows 10 or with Ubuntu/ other distros I've used. This period is when the power light on the mobo is flashing. 2. after flashing the Manjaro image to my USB, it felt unusually hot, almost too hot to hold.
Happy to provide any other information you might find useful, though this is pretty much everything I can think of right now.
This was intended to become a personal machine learning build so I didn't need to use cloud services, etc. It's currently running Ubuntu 18.04, and I wanted to swap over to Manjaro with KDE. I flashed Ubuntu onto a 32gb Patriot USB drive and installed off of that. Everything was working after I swapped platforms (kind of surprised this was the case; I came over from an i7 6700k and was not expecting it to pick up so smoothly between AMD and Intel, though I'm not incredibly familiar with all of this). I recently reformatted and re-used the same drive to try to install Manjaro. I'm on macOS so I was using unetbootin at first, and everything was working fine, however, I could not seem to fix the "unknown filesystem" into GRUB rescue when I booted off of it.
That was last night, and I threw in the towel to go hang out with some friends (classes canceled for coronavirus; defeats the purpose of the cancellation, I know). This morning I was doing some research on that to try to fix it and decided to try out flashing the image to the drive with balenaEtcher after seeing a few recommendations for it (and because I could actually use it on macOS without emulators/ virtual machines for Windows). My PC was plugged in, but not on. I plugged the Manjaro KDE drive into a USB 3.0 slot, and my PC turned "off."
As seems to be usual, when the PC is plugged but not on/ running, the power button on the mobo will glow and battery is running the system clock, of course. For this motherboard, it flashes for a bit when powered off and then will hold it's light steadily on (to my knowledge, this is not indicative of a problem, and I ignored it since everything otherwise seemed to be fine). When I plugged in the USB (before I even turned it on), that light immediately turned off. It was still plugged in, etc. but it won't even boot now... won't turn on... nothing -> I'm really worried that something happened to my motherboard. It's as though it's not plugged in/ receiving power at all.
Over the two days that it's been functional (only so much time to sit around and plug things in), I've noticed a few strange things--maybe strange is not the right word, but things, in my experience, that seem to not be 100% right. 1. When I would shut it off, it would need to "chill out" (it just needed to sit for a minute; definitely not cool, because it was running idle at 34C so cooling, etc. was absolutely fine) before I could turn it back on. Seemed out of the ordinary and I don't remember anything like this with Windows 10 or with Ubuntu/ other distros I've used. This period is when the power light on the mobo is flashing. 2. after flashing the Manjaro image to my USB, it felt unusually hot, almost too hot to hold.
Happy to provide any other information you might find useful, though this is pretty much everything I can think of right now.