Jemiles

Yes it does seem to be suspicious, but the first time this issue happened I had been using Ryzen master for several months without issue. And it was a simple shutdown for the night, no changes being made by ryzen master. I actually just reinstalled Ryzen master and did my overclock again from scratch and it started up without a hitch. This time though I only slightly increased the SOC voltage, which is the only thing that requires a restart. The CPU and GPU clock with their voltage don't require a restart. Just leaving my memory speed at stock as the performance gain is very minimal. But this certainly doesn't rule ryzen master out. I'm curious what was happening when I removed the ram and started my computer up. It would cycle with 10 seconds on then off twice then stay on the third time. Anyone know what was happening there and how that could have allowed my computer to start?

This is not nearly as cut and dry as I make it out in the title. As of right now I am typing this on my computer, so I can get it to turn on after some fiddling with the ram. Specs- CPU - Ryzen 3 2200G APU (using the radeon 8 for graphics) Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H I think these are the only two relevant things to my issue. The Issue: So one day I went to turn my computer on and quickly realized it did not turn on. So panicking, I press the power button again and I notice that the LED's briefly light up. So I decide to hold the power button. The LED's light up and dim 3 times then the lights go out. First thought was my power supply died. So opening it up, I decided to narrow it down to a part that might be defective. First I unplug the CPU from the board, and my computer turns on. Continuing on I unplug the HDD plugging the CPU back in, again everything turns on. So next up was Ram (the potential issue here) and again everything came on with it out. Plugged everything back in, still dead and now I'm sad. The most likely failure at this point to me was the power supply or ram, moved the ram to my other channel slots (duel channel memory) and boom computer turns on. Chalked it up to my first channel being dead. Fast forward to yesterday, same issue after a restart (from a normal boot earlier). The restart was needed because I use ryzen master to overclock my gpu as well as memory. Generally it doesn't ask to restart as my memory speeds should have been locked in from my previous usage of the program (I assume it changes bios settings because it was always clocked in at 3K on startup). Recently it had been asking to restart just to clock up the GPU and CPU but I suspect maybe it was doing something with the ram as well when it wasn't needed. I did notice that under voltage control, everything was N/A where previously this was not the case. I have since reinstalled the program and will attempt an overclock and restart after this post. Actually Getting It to Boot: So now that ryzen master is out of the way, let me explain how I actually got it to boot up. After a bit of fiddling around, removing ram and changing slots, I straight up just took the ram out and started the computer. The TV I have it hooked up to doesn't show my post screen (but my other TV will), so I'm not exactly sure what was going on. But it would light up as if on, shut down, light up again, shut down, then come on for a third time and stay on. Shutting it down and reinstalling the ram and it turns on and stays on, but I don't get a display. So I restart it and boom, everything comes on and I'm quite happy. Attempt to overclock, restart, same problem. Computer lights up 3 times holding the power button and shuts off. So going through the same trick (and this time installing the ram in the channel I thought had died) I get it to come back on. So I decided lets give it another go but this time I didn't attempt to overclock, same problem. So I'm not sure what my issue is exactly. I thought if the issue was a bad change to the memory that a simple cmos reset should do the trick but that didn't work either. Only removing the ram, powering on, and letting it cycle through 3 times seemed to work. Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated? For now I'm off to see if I can break it again.