Prebuilt [SFFn] ASRock's DeskMini A300 - Finally!

[indrade]

A300/2400G here. Been using 3.70E for more than three months, went from 3.60S back to 3.60 then upgraded to 3.70 and finally to 3.70E.

hi, do you find any issue when changing ang saving the bios configuration with 3.70E? thanks

 

[Dr. Nick]

I don't see any advantage of the 3.70E BIOS to just flashing the X300 BIOS. The 3.70E looks like a hacked X300 BIOS anyway, it has the exact same disadvantage regarding the soft brick when saving the BIOS settings. I recommend flashing A300 3.60S/U first, then flashing 3.70E or better X300 L1.82 with AGESA 1.2.0.Cc (and when going back to A300 BIOS go back to 3.60S, otherwise you could brick the A300 - bad idea without a CH341A).
Regarding editing and saving BIOS settings I use UMAF, works fine.

 

[indrade]

Hi guys, I managed to upgrade the BIOS for my A300 into version 3.70E, and the PC is looking good running Ryzen 5600G.

When I checked the CPU temperature, it's between 60-64 degrees Celcius. I am using wraith cooler from AMD. Is this ok? I heard noctua cooleer is better, just a bit pricey here.

 

[Dr. Nick]

Hi guys, I managed to upgrade the BIOS for my A300 into version 3.70E, and the PC is looking good running Ryzen 5600G.

When I checked the CPU temperature, it's between 60-64 degrees Celcius. I am using wraith cooler from AMD. Is this ok? I heard noctua cooleer is better, just a bit pricey here.

60° - 64°C during idle would be far too much, although it also depends on the fan settings. Those temps during load would be pretty nice.
I've Noctua coolers in my Deskminis, and they idle between 33° - 35°C. I use custom fan settings though, with a little higher RPMs (around 1000) in idle to keep it a bit cooler.

 

[indrade]

my old box is periodically experiencing similar issue on 3.60S, I don't have to clear CMOS pins though, I disconnect the power (and long-press the power btn just in case for a couple of seconds), replug and it works... asrock bios quality is the best!)

regarding the latest A300 bios v3.70E:
Is everyone who flashed it experiencing the inability to save settings (mentioned earlier) or is it configuration-dependent (or what was flashed previously) ?


asking because I have a chance to snag a 5600g for a pretty nice price (to upgrade from 3400g), but If I can't change bios settings that would be a dealbreaker for such a swap.

confim can't save BIOS setting with 3.70E. got soft brick, and need to disconnect/reconnect cmos cable.

 

[indrade]

60° - 64°C during idle would be far too much, although it also depends on the fan settings. Those temps during load would be pretty nice.
I've Noctua coolers in my Deskminis, and they idle between 33° - 35°C. I use custom fan settings though, with a little higher RPMs (around 1000) in idle to keep it a bit cooler.

hello,

For my case 60 degrees on BIOS, but around 40 degrees (checked with Core Temp) during idle in Windows. strange?

 

[Dr. Nick]

hello,

For my case 60 degrees on BIOS, but around 40 degrees (checked with Core Temp) during idle in Windows. strange?

No, I've to say the temps I mentioned are what Ryzen Master shows, the temps in other tools or BIOS are usually higher (although there's a difference between CPU and CPU Diode, e.g. in AIDA64). In Windows idle the CPU power saving is on, thus the lower temps.

 

[Dr. Nick]

confim can't save BIOS setting with 3.70E. got soft brick, and need to disconnect/reconnect cmos cable.

Yeah, you've to use UMAF, I mentioned above. Thus I see no advantage of 3.70E, just flash X300 L1.82 and done - latest AGESA 1.2.0.Cc.

 

[d3w]

hi, do you find any issue when changing ang saving the bios configuration with 3.70E? thanks

Sorry for the late reply. No, there are several settings I have changed in BIOS. But again, this is with a 2400G.

 

[chuckster]

Hi everyone,
Would appreciate some help advice on the following issue:
GPU constantly and randomly crashes on anything with HW acceleration (browsing and video in browsers in Skype/Teams).
Either a driver crash detected by AMD software +monitor scaling is reset, driver switched to limp-mode or a black screen.
Restart fixes it for a short time. This has been happening for months with varying frequency.

System config:
A300 (3.60U bios) with 3400G and 32gb RAM (non-XMP, JEDEC @2400), issue also was with 16gb 2666 (non XMP).
4K monitor @60hz via DP (turned down to 8bit from 10bit just in case).
Tried CMOS resets and bios reflash just in case when I had access to it.
CPU Power was set to 45W and later back to 65W. No overclocking.
OS is Windows 10 Pro (latest updates, minimal software, file integrity triple checked).
Latest GPU (24.9.1) and chipset drivers (tried a lot of GPU drivers back to early 23.x releases).
MPO and ULPS are disabled. Only a couple of devices connected via USB (Kb/mouse/webcam).
Overnight memory and CPU stability tests are ok. Also downclocked ram from 2666 to 2400 just in case (doesn't help).
PC is also freshly repasted, cleaned temps are in check.

I have tried almost everything that I could think of. The only thing that I didn't try was SOC voltage tweaks (via VID in bios),
but I don't know if should help as GPU most likely has it's own voltage controls (not exposed though in bios).

Sadly this PC is in a different country, so I can try almost everything except another bios reflash.

BTW, what powerplans are you using on Zen+ (3xxxG)? Standard/OS or the ones from AMD?

Thanks.