Got two coolermaster cases! Plan on removing one mainboard from my framework 13, and got another amd mainboard that also came in today and I want to throw that into the case.
Do I need to do anything to prep them before going into the case so that they work without being in the laptop?
Make sure to go into the BIOS while the board is still in the laptop and enable standalone mode.
what about for the new board I got? does that require me to hook up the new board to the laptop so I can enable standalone mode? or can i just put the new board right into a case?
Good question and I can’t say for sure. What I would do is configure the board in the laptop, then pop the other one in the laptop and configure it as well. It might already be set up, but once you pull the first board from the laptop it’s simple enough to put the other one in there and boot to the bios.
Did you get a third board that you are going to be putting into the laptop shell?
Have fun with it and please follow up with what you wind up doing!
will do. got everything today. the new amd AI board wont boot unfortunately. still diagnosing the issue!
Best of luck getting it sorted out.
For the cool master case, you need to have the coin battery installed also, if it does not already have one.
mine has the coin cell battery (batch 2, 11th gen). but dont all of the new boards forego the coin battery? if so… how would that work in the case then?
You can add a battery to the newer boards when they are being used standalone, not connected to the main battery.
Interesting. I guess i will have to look into that next. not really privy to the whole cmos battery (and “debacle”) that seemed to happen in the 11th gen mainboard. but thanks for the info!