My cooling fins looked the same! Weird.
I also was able to bend them back.
I wonder what’s going on in the packaging process that this happened multiple times.
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I have a Batch 1 7840. I have Crucial memory. I have the same issue where the machine powers on but does not boot, just the power light comes on. It boots eventually after a few retries. I have to plug the machine in to get it to boot. When the boot fails I get diagnostic code 0A in hex. The other diagnostic lights are all green.l have raised this with tech support.
I read a few comments regarding that one but I really can’t justify that kind of money.
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For those looking for a sleeve, i just ordered from here:
Seems to be the only one i can find thats designed for the size of the laptop. Not arrived yet so cant comment on fit or quality, but looks like it should be good.
I just put my laptop in my backpack’s tablet compartment (a 16” external display goes into the main laptop compartment).
Kind of surprised at the lack of reviews on youtube for the Framework 13 AMD models. I’ve only seen like maybe 6 reviews floating around. None from some of the bigger channels like LTT, Jays2Cents, Dave2D, Mobile Tech Review, Hardware Canucks, etc.
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Most channels aren’t interested in reviewing/showcasing what is basically the same chassis over and over again. And JayzTwoCents doesn’t even do laptop reviews.
Yes, same chasis but different laptop (in a manner of speaking) since it is AMD based vs Intel based. Would be interesting to see a performance comparison and see the thoughts of some of the more familiar reviewers. Also not sure about the Jays2Cents comment, he’s put out plenty of content on laptops.
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Just had a deeper look, yeah he does a laptop review like once a month. I did stop following him after he recommended a GTX 1650 for a Pandemic build when you could get an RX 6600 for about the same price.
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LTT could do another review of the Ryzen Framework 13 but I suspect the reason why they might not have is because Linus is an investor in the company. Getting third-party, independent reviews are more valuable to the company. On the other hand, Linus can show off more behind the scenes of the company. He was the first to upgrade to an AMD motherboard and did a factory tour.
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Loving the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U batch 1 (BIOS 3.02). Have 64GB, DDR5 5600MT/s & 4TB NVMe PCIe 4x4, but all tests (HWInfo/AIDA64 extreme) show that the back slots (1 & 3) are only working at USB 3.2 x 2 (20GB/s or 2.5 GT/s). Is there a setting in the BIOS to get the documented USB 4 speeds?? It’s messing up eGPU and external HDD settings.
Thanks for the detail - where do I navigate in these apps to see this diagnostic?
Do you have anything connected to these ports?
Well, let’s see. The SSD was inherited from an 11th Gen machine that was bumped up to 12th Gen, and it’s running an Intune / Azure AD joined setup, so I want to avoid doing that. I might simply invest on a new SSD, to be honest.
Did anyone see issues with their Ryzen boards when placed directly onto a Cooler master enclosure? Mine simply refuses to fire up and repeats the red-blue-red-blue LED pattern, and that’s regardless of whether it’s running off a 60 watt or a 100 watt USB-PD adapter. At this stage I tried 3 sets of SODIMMs (96GB of DDR5-5600, 64GB of DDR5-5200 and 16GB of DDR5-4800) - all 3 works just fine on my EliteBook 845G9. I am not even sure if I want to place it onto my FW13 chassis since I am not sure if it’s a board issue, RAM issue or something else…
Have you hooked it up to the battery? It may require the battery for first boot.
Well, kinda. I just figured this one out. Yeah, you’ll need to plug it onto the laptop chassis, but I think the solution isn’t specifically that you need the laptop chassis or a battery per-se - there’s a BIOS setting called “standalone mode” which needs to be toggled ON for the first time in order for the board to work inside the Cooler Master case. The BIOS setting might’ve defaulted to only allow the board to function inside the Framework laptop chassis…which should probably be mentioned somewhere on the pack-in booklet, or they should ship the board with the option toggled off.
Edit: After togging standalone mode ON, saving the setting to BIOS and pulling the board off a laptop chassis and back on the Cooler Master, it’s still not working. Same alternating red/blue LEDs and no bootup. Eeeeeh…is it a power brick issue or something else entirely? I really want to avoid swapping boards more than necessary.
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@WANg i really hope it is something else, as I don’t have the laptop chassis, only ordered the amd mainboard to use in the coolermaster case as a server… mine should arrive next week or so
Edit, seems it should be fine: Accessing the bios on framework 13 in standalone mode - #2 by nrp
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TB3/USB4 only supports 22-24 GBps for pcie traffic, the 40GBps comes from display tunneling, and isnt relevant for egpu use. Using CUDA-Z for nvidia or AIDA64 for amd you should instead check the memory copy speeds to get an idea of your performance. Personally am getting ~2477MiB/s for host-to-device on my Ryzen 7+3070Ti in a razer core x. Also I have had 0 issues with my egpu on windows, what issues are you having?
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Eh, that’s probably someone off a 12th Gen Intel board, which is a different animal than the Ryzen board. If the BIOS defaults to standalone mode OFF, I don’t think plugging a USB keyboard and furiously pounding F2 will help all that much, since the board LEDs will simply flash red/blue repeatedly and not power up. If it doesn’t power up, how would you get to the BIOS? I’ll try it tomorrow (I have the USB-A expansion module and a couple of USB-C docking stations) but I doubt it’ll do much.
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