Review on MSI Pro Z490 ATX 🔧 Motherboard - Intel LGA 1200, DDR4-SDRAM by Jeong Hoon (Kim) ᠌

The motherboard was purchased for the 10400 processor. Of course, buying a mother at the price of a processor is not very common, but I wanted a z490 chipset for overclocking memory, and this motherboard is almost the lowest cost + was in close stock - I decided. Before that, exactly a year ago, there was a relatively unpleasant story with MSI X470 on AMD (the system did not boot, later it was decided). Then I almost swore off taking MSI mothers, but now the price has declined + I thought that there are no problems on Intel . I assembled a computer, installed Windows 10 from my old installation flash drive, rebooted . and . an endless screen with the inscription A PRO . I reboot, it gives me access to the BIOS, everything is determined, I can not understand anything. Resetting the memory with a jumper does not help. I take the installation flash drive again, put the boot from it, it comes to the beginning of the installation, I poke the flash drive, the next boot is launched into the main system, but the next one hangs again. (Here in my head there is already the phrase "I told myself I don't need MSI"). I decided in such a crooked way to get into Windows and see what's there. My Windows did not pull up the network card driver - I threw it through a USB flash drive and installed it, started downloading the missing drivers from the MSI website. But one device was still hanging in the device manager - Google led to the Intel Management Engine Driver - it is on the site, but it was not installed on my system - the version did not match. Google led to the fact that we need a Windows version no older . (some kind of there), rearranged 20H2, and the drivers of all devices (and network cards) got up on their own. Now, about the boot, it seems that the system in the BIOS itself set fastboot for windows 8 (perhaps due to the fact that 10 was an old version). Manually put DISABLED in front of this item and the problem went away. Conclusions: 1) if you are using Windows OS, install the new version 2) if it does not boot, check the BOOT modes in the BIOS, the system can change them itself