I am building a completely new system, one which I hope will be relevant for the next 5 years at least. The heart of this system is to be the MEG X570 Godlike. The first one I ordered appeared to be used, or at least someone had opened and rummaged around inside the box. The box was ripped and crumpled, plus there is no tamper seal on this product, meaning it can be opened without you knowing it. I immediately returned this product as I am not spending 700 dollars for a used or opened item.
The replacement showed up in pristine condition. I installed it and everything worked fine, ran my system for about an hour then shut down. The next day when I booted up the system it went into an infinite boot loop. It would simply reboot every 10 to 15 seconds, I begin troubleshooting. Eventually I ended up taking the board out of the case, building it on a box and connecting only the CPU with cooler, PSU, GPU and RAM, no hard drives or other peripherals.
Tested a single stick or RAM in dimma2 and dimmb2 and it failed in both slots, tested my other stick of RAM same results, tested known good RAM and it failed as well. Took new RAM and tested it in old system and it passed. So the motherboard appears to have bad RAM slots or something associated with the RAM.
I also tested the GPU by changing it out, the problem persisted. I also checked all power connections on both ends, all pins etc. I did contact MSI they basically told me to do what I just described and if that failed to RMA it.
So sending it back to Amazon. This is part of the reason I purchased from Amazon as they have an easy return policy.
I know electronics can be tricky at times, and I am not giving up on this motherboard. It's just disappointing that I have to wade through these issues to get a good board.
But such are the hazards that come with building your own stuff, but I would have it no other way.
I will update this review once the third board comes in, and hopefully I can tell you all how wonderful my new system runs.
UPDATE 11/7/19
Received the replacement MB from Amazon. Installed and tested RAM, no errors this time. Rebuilt system installed windows, and all good, mostly. M.2 drive is recognized but nothing on the SATA ports is showing in the BIOS, although I can see it in windows. Even though I can see my SATA HDD in windows it will not let me format or initialize it because of an I/O error because the SATA ports are not active in the BIOS. Have been working to try and figure this out, no luck so far. Guess there will have to be another update.
| Memory Speed | 2666 MHz |
|---|---|
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
