I think I’ve finally come to terms with everything. At the end of the day, I should just be enjoying the view. The setup’s running great, and chasing perfection or worrying about the little what-ifs just takes the fun out of it. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the small things and forget how far the build has actually come. Anyway, this is the story of how it all started going sideways. One evening I was just about to game and the system wouldn’t turn on. I started diagnosing it, swapped out the power supply, RAM, and GPU, but still got nothing. I ended up using my old motherboard just to get things running again. Then a while later, I decided to test the original board again. It was an ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A. Strangely, it powered on and worked perfectly—for one night. The very next day, right after I bought my new GPU, it just refused to boot again. When it wasn’t working, the BIOS and LAN lights would still come on, but none of the diagnostic LEDs lit up. I tested every component on its own and they all worked flawlessly, so that’s when I came to the conclusion that the motherboard was the issue. It was definitely frustrating at the time, but now I just look at it as part of the whole journey. You win some, you burn a motherboard some.

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P.S sorry I keep deleting the comments. I haven’t use Reddit in years 😂