Tom Speirs

I tested the 990 pro too. No issues but guessing based on the third temperature shown it throttled after 90 seconds. The third temperature shown peaked at 82 degrees. The other two peaked at 72 degrees. I would think those temps are just what the drive does to manage itself. Max read and write rates shown both at 4GB/s. I am guessing that is good. Although it is the top gen 4 drive available. I would think that's all more than fine. I always feel like I am burning things out with these kind of things so I'm done with this!

i tested cpu + ram and 3d adaptive (gpu).. I only let them both run for 5 minutes but both maxed out on usage and power and no issues. Temps were stable in the green (no throttling going on) and ram didn't see bothered by anything at all. i have no idea what PSU is in the cab but I matched the wattage of the hardware. Did the PSU ATX standard change at some point with the 8 pin for the CPU? It is whatever Bespoke Arcades supplied. Hopefully okay. I've not had any issues with anything with the cab to date. My only complaint was that Gigabyte motherboard with no tpm. I had no bsods or instability though. thanks for the tip.

im looking at the software now. it says 56 degrees for the 5060. its not in a case though and its not going in one/

I've had it running pinballx screensaver for a day, with only 5 seconds between tables. Seems nice and stable. i don't know much about temps but cpu 46 degrees and motherboard at 28 degrees. That is good right? vsync is perfect in exclusive mode at 4k 60hz (4k 60 fps playfield videos) but it is on the old gear too. Oddly it was not perfect on the default Windows driver for the 5060. I'm quite pleased with myself that I got it to run so well on the old stuff. An i7 9700 and gtx 1660 is a little old now. i expect the benefit will be actually playing, not that i do that much. I am guessing playing was sub par previously. Shame I had to spend another 450 pounds ($1 Euro!) but I am happy. 25h2 seems to be nothing but more bloat unfortunately though. As they say, enshitification at work there. i didn't run a debloater on it just manually removed apps, start up processes, devices in BIOS and was lite on the drivers. i have not played with VPX much other than to configure it and test but I would say the hardware is a good choice for anyone looking to update in 25/26. Here it is in the end: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X ASUS Prime B850M-K Gaming Motherboard Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black CPU Air Cooler Samsung 990 Pro MSI GeForce RTX 5060 8G SHADOW 2X Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36 (Reusing old PSU. Wattage is very good and the same). It is not a budget build by far but possible for just over $1,000 US where you could spend up to $5k if you went crazy. I didn't need to get the 990 pro or the 5060 over the 4060 or cheaper NVME SSD but the 990 pro brings less potential headache, and now the 5060 would be the choice as opposed to in January when it was not released. The 5060 is running at PCI express 5 and the motherboard supports 5 version NVME too. 2.5GB ethernet is a nice to have upgrade on the motherboard also. Saved me 2 hours copying the content over. They also have a Wi-Fi version of that motherboard with a few other improvements.

Yeah, I started over. Way better idea anyway. Done now. That old motherboard really was shite. Will be glad to be shot of it. Now the hard part of getting it in the cab. I'll do that tomorrow.

Okay, so i called it correctly. The new mb and cpu works fine. I'm having to do a reinstall, the clone didn't work but that is a different issue. its nice and fast. Windows installed very quickly.

I guess you wouldn't expect the system to hardware reset after 1 second and I had the same issue with installation media. We will soon see.

i just thought of something else relevant to my issue. i was able to boot into 64 bit linux based true image and restore the image from the Pin Cab with zero issues. That took about 2 hours and had no problems. Weird that it won't boot windows 11. im very curious if it just works with the new mobo and cpu. it might be it does not like the cloned 990 pro even though it wont boot the installation media. its nice that i get 2.5gb out of the box. I dont have to put the intel x550 in it which would have been dangling lose!

Ive started on the new build but am taking my time. Very pleased with the CPU cooler. Super easy for AM5 and includes everything. Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black. That is an upgrade too. Way better than a stock intel cooler.

There is no integrated graphics on the i7 13700F. The 9700x has it and i will test that if i have the same issue. I have not messed with non UEFI boot for several years. i don't think many modern boards even have the option for CSM. It has to be a hardware issue.

Good point on the GPU and RAM. I should test another GPU. It does start to boot Windows 11 and i get like 1 second of the spinner. I guess it could be the RAM too. Actually seems very feasible, when Windows tries to access it The 9700x has integrated graphics so i can test the GPU. It does look like the issue is happening when its passing off to Windows from UEFI or slightly after that.

So its terrible, but i only just got on this. So i built the pc yesterday and had a problem. It posts and BIOS is fine (temps also okay) but resets one second into booting windows 11. Either booting off the cloned drive or windows installation media. I tried latest BIOS from last month and two revisions back. I hear a power click. i see windows UEFI booting for about a second. I tried ram at overclocked speed and also all BIOS settings at default. Everything looks perfect in ASUS BIOS. Not quite sure what the issue is but ended up buying a 9700x, a basic cooler and this mb. Arrived in a day, thanks to Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQ2TC142 I should have gone AMD in the first place but hopefully i will have better luck this time round. I also got a 990 pro 4tb and an rtx 5060 for a better upgrade. Hope the 5060 is not the issue as I gave the 4060 to a friend for his 50th. its just a temp build at the moment, i didn't put it in the cab. i used a basic ATX power button to test it out. the PSU is new (bought at same time in Jan) and should be more than decent and plenty, but if not the cpu and mb i suspect that or the gpu. it did have tape on the box which was after and was from a third party Amazon seller. I'm not upset about getting the new CPU and mobo. it is 18 month newer tech. Single threaded speed is 11% better too. Thoughts?

Sorry, i do get that. If it does happen again, please let me know. I can see some video and display issues and i think I have fixed that recently.

yes please, if you still have the issue.

Sorry about that but i can see you are quite a few versions behind. if it is something i need to fix, i need to be sure i have not fixed the issue already. So need you on the latest. Thanks.

i bought that game and made some changes. its working for me, at least now. Note it does take a while to exit normally unless the game has been running quite a few seconds. Not much i can do about that right now. Please try this one and confirm. Thanks. Tom. GameEx.zip

Thank you. I did try and bullet proof the code a bit, so must have fixed the issue in the process. Not a problem me looking into that. Cheers.

Here is another one with more logging. Thanks again. GameEx.zip

Thank you. That helps narrow it down. ill get back to you shortly. Appreciate you taking the time.

Interesting. i never knew if the high end thermal paste was a rip off but I always got it.

here it is. thanks GameEx.zip

maybe i uploaded the wrong file or somethimg. I will try again. It should at lest.t say loading steam.

Various fixes and improvements to default themes.Improved font display. View the full article

Various fixes and improvements to default themes.Improved font display. View the full article

Thanks for hanging in there. i added some logging where it loads steam, for testing. please replace the gameex binary attached and post the log. thank you. Its probably not only affecting you but your the only one who spoke up GameEx.zip