Update: Turns out my partner is infinitely smarter than I am. Rubber duck'd it with her and she pointed out I was looking at the memory slots upside down. I had the one stick of ram in slot A2 not A1 - which caused the F1 error.
Why the manual calls that "PEI_RECOVERY_USER" and not something memory related, I'll never know. But meh. It works now!
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TLDR: I have an ASRock B650D4U-2L2T/BCM that keeps getting stuck on an F1 POST code and I can't figure out what it actually wants from me.
TSWR (Too short, will read):
So last week I got an ASRock B650D4U-2L2T/BCM. Like a kid on Christmas I was all excited to build my first 8 bay NAS out of it.
Put everything together, tried to power it up. Found out the PSU I had was having trouble with the backplane of my CS382. So it really was just like Christmas. Got the toy, no way to power it.
Ordered another PSU, put it all together again yesterday and got... Nothing. Fans spin at full speed for about 8 seconds, then wind down after the 7 segment on the mobo sticks on F1.
No monitor ouput on VGA, HDMI or display port, no keyboard for input (plugged in but won't even give me the ability to hit numlock). Plugged in the OOB for it, let DHCP assign an IP (as much as it saddens me to have to put the OOB on my normal subnet, but since the OOB subnet has no DHCP and I have no way to set an IP without the machine booting...) and checked in there. No more information than before. Just a post code of 0xf1.
Checked the online manual for the board, it says that 0xf1 is "PEI_RECOVERY_USER"
It doesn't tell me what that means or how to even start fixing it.
So I assume bios is fried, upload a new version through OOB. OOB reports everything should be good, powercycle the machine for it to take effect. So I do just that.
Nothing still.
Pull battery and short the clear cmos pads, still nothing.
Pulled the CPU and memory to see if something else happened and it beeped at me with error codes that I just lobotomised it.
So now I'm here asking for help. What glaringly obvious troubleshooting have I missed?
Hello,
I've done a test run without GPU, worked fine until I added the 7900xtx, then, Dr Debug cycle through codes 36/37 (and sometimes 38 - and I've seen one 39 during writing this) for the 20 last minutes.
I've flashed the bios to the latest to day before sitting the CPU. GPU fans are not running, but TUF logo is lighted.
Only 36 & 37 are documented, with CPU SSM INIT and MEM SB INIT respectively, 38 & 39 are undocumented.
Is it really initializing for that long? I've been 20+minutes in, should it be that long?
Edit: After about 50 minutes: I've seen it briefly go up to 44, and then count down to 37. I've not seen 36 in a long time... is this "training percentage"? Why do it count down.
Edit 2: computer has shutdown by itself... is GPU broken?