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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Master: Feature-packed Gaming Motherboard with WiFi 6, Triple M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, and RGB Fusion 2.0 by John Clarey

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Tried everything, no signal to monitor

Bought based on cooling performance from Nexus gamer tests, I want to like this board but it was a bad experience trying to get one Output signal to the monitor . This is a brand new build with all brand new parts (G Skill RAM, Gigabyte 5700xt OC GPU, Samsung m.2 SSD, Seasonal PSU) all installed clean and tidy. Everything turns on except no signal on the monitor and a solid red VGA status light, indicating a graphics card error. I've cleared the CMOS, removed the GPU, updated the BIOS to the latest version with gigabyte q flash plus, set per gigabyte support instructions, set the speaker to hear the motherboard beep code and it's a long beep and 3 short beeps, these are agp errors, which match the vga status light. At this point I don't know what to do other than return the board and try a different brand, someone on Newegg left a similar review about the same experience. Maybe I just have a bad board, the cooling features seem great to me, but I've spent hours getting this thing to work which has left me very frustrated.

Pros
  • Stylish and modern design
Cons
  • Slightly torn