The workstation I set up has
amd ryzen 5 3600
Asus A320m-k Mobo
Samsung 970 nvme m.2 500gb
some ram
it was working fine and I am trying to test another cpu, AMD Athlon 300ge
it would not boot from the nvme nor was it then appearing as a boot option.
I switched back to the old cpu and everything works exactly like it had before.
At that point I decided to clone the nvme ssd to an old hard drive. It worked (ie the information was on there), but would not boot into windows now could I perform a boot repair. Frustrated at this point I decided to do a fresh install of windows so I could boot and just get the thing set up on the new cpu.
Then I reinstalled the ssd back into the motherboard and it still won’t work with this Athlon cpu. Unlike before though I cannot see the drive at all in the bios it just says N/A. If I switch back to the Ryzen 5 it re-appears I can boot ect. How is this possible? I can’t see why the cpu change is changing what the Mobo can see in the bios? This athlon cpu should be compatible.
amd ryzen 5 3600
Asus A320m-k Mobo
Samsung 970 nvme m.2 500gb
some ram
it was working fine and I am trying to test another cpu, AMD Athlon 300ge
it would not boot from the nvme nor was it then appearing as a boot option.
I switched back to the old cpu and everything works exactly like it had before.
At that point I decided to clone the nvme ssd to an old hard drive. It worked (ie the information was on there), but would not boot into windows now could I perform a boot repair. Frustrated at this point I decided to do a fresh install of windows so I could boot and just get the thing set up on the new cpu.
Then I reinstalled the ssd back into the motherboard and it still won’t work with this Athlon cpu. Unlike before though I cannot see the drive at all in the bios it just says N/A. If I switch back to the Ryzen 5 it re-appears I can boot ect. How is this possible? I can’t see why the cpu change is changing what the Mobo can see in the bios? This athlon cpu should be compatible.