Biostar B350GTN Build

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Minimal Tinkerer
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Apr 12, 2018
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Hi all. I'm looking for a little guidance.

I have an Aspire XC 105 to renovate, dating from 2008 at a guess. It has a mini-ITX motherboard, 24-pin ATXPWR1, 4-pin ATXPWR2, a 10-pin front panel header and a front-panel audio header . I've picked up the following to swap in:

Biostar B350GTN
Ryzen 5 2400G
Two 16GB DDR4 SDRAM VLP UDIMM MTA18ADF2G72AZ
and a smallish Sandisk SSD

Anyway, I put the bits in and they fit. I'm fairly sure the PSU offers enough current, it was built to take up to a 95W processor.

I have at least two problems.

With the Panel plug unattached I can get the fan to spin but no beep, no BIOS. The panel plug appears to have different pin-outs for the same 9-pin shape as the Biostar, it won't spin the fan pressing the power button but I can get that far shorting pins 8+10.

The memory I picked up is 2666MHz ECC Single-rank, some ECC memory works with the Biostar board so I thought I'd try. I get the same fan-spin but no BIOS with the memory in or out. I'd expected to at least get into the BIOS.

1. If I give up on the case because of the likely pin-out mismatch, would anyone like to recommend a desirable alternative case-and-PSU?

2. Has anyone here used this board with ECC memory? I'll get a 4GB single non-ECC replacement to test with but I suspect what I bought is incompatible.
 

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Minimal Tinkerer
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Apr 12, 2018
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It takes a skewed view to know what to try but I think I've got there. Given that the memory is the major cost, I'm actually going to buy a second motherboard which I know will take the memory and see whether that gets me to a BIOS screen. The Gigabyte GA-AB350N-Gaming says it has no problem with ECC. If I can get to a BIOS screen with that, I'll check the pin-outs of the front panel and warm up my soldering iron.
 

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It takes a skewed view to know what to try but I think I've got there. Given that the memory is the major cost, I'm actually going to buy a second motherboard which I know will take the memory and see whether that gets me to a BIOS screen. The Gigabyte GA-AB350N-Gaming says it has no problem with ECC. If I can get to a BIOS screen with that, I'll check the pin-outs of the front panel and warm up my soldering iron.

Why ECC? for consumer usage, there is no benefit. It's only useful in servers and whatnot. Just curious.
 

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Minimal Tinkerer
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Because I had ECC in two 16GB pieces, and the mini-itx format only having two RAM slots, and me needing to run virtual systems on this box. I suspect two non-ECC pieces would have run to over £300 at the moment.
 
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