MSI X870/X870E motherbord BIOS severe issues with memory at boot time and more
Looks like something is cooking with the latest MSI X870/X870E motherboard BIOSes and it is not good. I myself ran into massive issues with my recent purchase of MSI X870E Carbon which by God is a beautiful looking motherboard with beautiful features, but by God had so soo many issues with booting properly it is unreal. Some of the dramas that I faced can be seen in this reddit post
X870E Rabon wont boot with Two stick rams installed - Gskill F5-6000J3036G32GX2-TZ5NRW
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1h6gtjl/comment/m4ufq9u/
In my own case, I was able to boot into the system properly eventually with two sticks of AData RAM Kit - Adata 64 GB AX5U6000C3032G-DCLARWH but after the system worked fine for few days, on random windows restart(warm boots), the mother will throw up message saying device changed or CMOS cleard and then will not detect one of the memory stick in either channel A2 or B2. Swapping the RAM sticks did not help. Eventually my retailer accepted the mother board return bringing an end to my 2+ months of agony, the joy of building a new pc is well and truly gone. Really, I was really looking forward to having a good time with my MSI X870ECarbon as the motherboard looked so beautiful and had so many beautiful features, probably the best look+features in it's price range IMHO, but whats the point if I can not even boot properly and run into constant issues.
I see other people are facing similar problems in here. Here are some other posts
X870e carbon won't post with 2 sticks of ram
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/1hds1ub/comment/m4ug02u/
carbon wifi x870e will not run a dual kit of ram
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/carbon-wifi-x870e-will-not-run-a-dual-kit-of-ram.407545/
MSI X870E Carbon / 9950X / 2x48GB - RAM bizzare issues - Mobo on restart randomly failing to detect all installed ram
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/msi-x870e-carbon-9950x-2x48gb-ram-bizzare-issues/222454
MSI X870 Tomahwak can boot with only only one stick of RAM
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/1hau7cs/x870_tomahawk_ram_issue/
MSI X870 Tomahawk - Mobo failing to detect all RAM at boot, random crashes, NVME driver issues
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/severe-x870-tomahawk-issues.405974/page-17
X870e Carbon Wifi 0d error code and DRAM light
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/1hp7jqd/x870e_carbon_wifi_0d_error_code_and_dram_light/
Some non memory related problems can also bee seen in here
X870E Carbon NVME and USB driver issues
X870E Carbon Random windows crashes
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/x870e-carbon-wifi-bios-issues.407277/
So I can go on an on with more links, but it is clear that these X870/X870E motherboard BIOSes have serious issues with memory detection at boot time and also seem to have ran into issues with NVME and USB drives for some users. All these needs to be fixed. My run with MSI is now over for next 3/4 years, but I really hope they get their act together as many users will continue to buy these otherwise awesome motherboards only to have their joy of building a new gaming PC sucked out of them when they bump into such issues, as it happened to me. I really hope that someone from Team MSI noticed these issues and lift their game up and start issuing fixes, which I expect will be BIOS fixes, such fixes are really really needed.