u/gyngerbread

Recently me and 2 friends of mine started a blind campaign, it's the 1st time playing for all of us and so far we've clocked in ~8 hours. We started off with the Barsuk as our starting sub since it seemed like the smallest, easiest to manage one, but even it we struggle to repair and keep afloat.

We are now preparing to buy a new sub, personally I want to invest into the Orca 2 since it seems like the one easiest to manage and it has a fabricator, deconstructor and a medicinal fabricator, but since even the tiny Barsuk is so hard to manage for us I'm worried we just won't be able to keep up with the repairs.

How to go about using the larger subs as a small crew of 3? Should we just get a ton of bots? And how do you manage the dive suits for the bots? They are rather expensive to hire and previously they ended up just blowing up from the pressure when we got wrecked.

We'd also prefer to keep to the vanilla subs, at least for our 1st campaign, to avoid accidentally getting something overpowered that could ruin the expedience for us.

Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

I've found a partially assembled tower in the garbage bin, and I decided to take it home and see if anything could be rescued, to my surprise the case was fairly nice and it had a fully working Noctua NH-L12S cooler, a seemingly working asus maximus VIII ranger motherboard and an old but working intel i7-6700k. It also had two shitty chassis fans, a busted 1TB HDD and a healthy 256 GB SSD.

After leaving it to dry from the rain for a couple days and cleaning it thoroughly, I popped in an old ram stick, connected an old PSU and tried to turn it on.

It booted into BIOS once, but after saving the settings it got stuck on the q-code b2 (Legacy Option ROM Initialization) with the white q-led (VGA), and would not post. There was zero signal for my monitor to detect.

Power cycling the board and resetting cmos to fully reset the BIOS would make it post one time again, with the same issue on following boots.

I have updated the BIOS to the newest version and tried reseating the CPU, when I did so I didn't notice anything obviously wrong with the pins. The cmos battery is also fine.

The PC will work perfectly fine with an rtx 2060 connected so the issue has to be with the iGPU, but I do not understand how it can post once after power cycling with no video output on following boots.

Since the PC would realistically only ever be used with dedicated graphics this is not an issue I need to solve, but I really want to figure it out anyways.

The only clue I was able to find on the internet was this forum thread, though the OP's solution was to just buy a different GPU :p

TLDR:
PC can post once after resetting cmos with zero video output on following boots when relying on the iGPU. Works fine with a dedicated GPU.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: SOLVED
On a whim, I tried turning the CSM off against all advice I could find online and lo and behold, it booted with the iGPU. I do not understand why the CSM is stopping the iGPU from functioning in the slightest, but if anyone else finds themselves stuck om the b2 - Legacy Option ROM Initialization q-code, try turning the CSM off and see what happens.