If you can, more power to you!
An interesting thing happened that really had me pissed off. I had to update the BIOS of my motherboard (ASRock X570 Pro4) for it to accept the 5700X. I did the flash update the exact same way that I always did with my previous (and now backup) motherboard, an ASRock X370 Killer SLI. Everything went smoothly, it said that the update was successful, press enter to reboot. So I rebooted and my PC was stuck in the ASRock logo screen. I couldn't enter the UEFI and it would not boot Windows. By all appearances, the mobo had been bricked by the update.
I tried everything that I could think of. I reset the CMOS several times, I tried changing CPUs, the board diagnostic LED had "BOOT" and "VGA" solidly lit so I tried swapping out my RX 6800 XT for an R9 Fury but nothing had any effect. I saw a post on one of ASRock's forums that said to try leaving the CMOS battery out for 4 hours or more so I tried that. I took the mobo to work and popped out the CR2032. It was left like that for about six hours.
When I took it home, I hooked it up to the PSU with only the SSDs attached and, much to my shock, the thing booted up. Windows wouldn't load past the Windows logo because I hadn't set the BIOS date but it booted. It appeared that the 6 hours without a CMOS battery had done the trick so I thanked my lucky stars and put my PC back together only for it to go back to pretending to be bricked.
I was puzzled as hell. What was causing this? I started thinking about what was different between it working and not. Then I realised that I had five SATA devices attached to the mobo which got me thinking. I remembered that my X370 Killer SLI once refused to post because there was something about one of my 2TB hard drives that it didn't like. To this day, I have no idea what it was because the drive is still alive and working in an enclosure. I then realised that there had to be some problem with one of my oldest hard drives.
After playing "pull a SATA cable and boot" for about ten minutes, I discovered that it was actually TWO drives that were causing the issue. I use one of these drives to store games that I'm not currently playing (I copy games over to my gaming NVMe when I'm playing them) and I can't remember what the other drive is for but I know that I have my music collection on it.
Well, I think that they're also both 2TB drives so I'm replacing them with two 8TB internal drives and put them in enclosures. I'll copy the stuff over to the 8TB drives, format the 2TB drives and copy the data back to keep as backups. It sure beats waiting to download an entire game from Steam, Origin, Epic or uPlay and it also keeps my game progress intact. I found a great deal on 8TB drives ($155 each) so I'll get two of them and I'll be able to eliminate all of the other drives in my PC. Hell, maybe I'll finally move it over to the new case I bought (that I never used because it only holds 3 HDDs).
I was using my mining rig as a backup PC during all of this and it suddenly shut itself off and won't turn on again. It's my ancient Gigabyte 990FX motherboard with my FX-8530 on it. It's possible that my OCZ Z1000M PSU has finally given up the ghost. I'm hoping that's what it is because I came across an incredible deal on Gigabyte 650W 80+Bronze PSUs... $40 each!
If my motherboard is the problem, well, replacing that will be impossible. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed!