We (Me and my colleagues) have had quite a lot of issues with one streaming PC we use for our business. We've had originally two identical systems:
Ryzen 5 5600X
Gigabyte Aeris DDR4-3000 CL16 2x8GB
MSI B450-A Pro
KFA2 RTX 3070Ti SG
Crucial P2 500GB
be quiet! Pure Power 12M 750W
be quiet! Dark Rock Slim
A few months ago, one of the PCs spontanously wouldn't post at all which is very bad when this happens in front of the customer that paid good money for recording and streaming of their order. Luckily, we mostly carry both of them to the site, so we can replace one if it's not working.
After that job was done, I've got the PC to see, what's wrong with it and we've known from the very beginning, that the GPU is broken (it won't even work in the second machine and the GPU holder never did a great job in these systems), so I've ordered a Gigabyte RTX 3070Ti GAMING OC as an replacement, as well as an Ryzen 7 5700X (the 5600X wouldn't recognize the known good GPU from the second PC).
After a few days, both parts came and I've began replacing the CPU and the GPU. I've tried powering it up and: NOTHING, Error LED ended on GPU. Then I popped in the old GPU and it partially worked (sometimes it crashes but hey, I can see the Desktop and FurMark also ran pretty reliable again (except sometimes it hard-crashed and wouldn't power up for 30 minutes).
Because we've not replaced the motherboard yet, my colleague searched for one and came up with the MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus, so we've ordered it. We put it in and: NOTHING, Error LED ended on GPU or RAM, so I've googled, if there are compatibility issues with the Gigabyte GPU and the MSI Motherboard and sure enough, there are forum entries that say that some MSI boards don't like Gigabyte GPUs.
We've returned that motherboard last week and bought the Gigabyte B550 GAMING X V2. I threw it in today and: NOTHING, now the old GPU isn't working on it anymore as well. Lucky Me, I have a small PC buzzer speaker laying on my desk, so I plugged it in and: 1 "long" (like POST OK) and 3 very short beeps and nothing more. Gigabyte suggests that the RAM is the issue, but this isn't true, we've already tested it in another known good computer, but sometimes it also means that there are issues with the GPU, so I grabbed a very old Gigabyte GT 630, put it in and: We've got an image!!!
First thing I did was to set the PCIe slot to Gen3 mode and: nope, updating bios: It won't recognize the file I downloaded from Gigabytes website for that board as a valid firmware (I unzipped it, renamed it to gigabyte.bin, etc, etc etc.). At least, the old KFA2 GPU works now in Gen3 mode, but that Gigabyte 3070Ti seems to be broken out of the box. One of my guesses was also that the PSU is broken (11.9V on 12V, 3.25V on 3.3V, 5.06V on 5V) but my colleague said that it won't be the issue, considering the fact that these machines aren't even 3 years old. The problem with that Gigabyte GPU is that our seller won't take it back as it's more than 3 months in our property.