NoahField

Over the past few months I have bought PC parts for a new build I'm doing to replace the computer I've had for the past 7 years or so. I consider myself fairly good with PCs, and am turning to forums as a last resort. I have the same GPU, but everything else has been replaced. MOBO is MSI B550 A pro, CPU is the ryzen 5 5600x, RAM is 4x 8GB 3600 MHz vengeance LPX DDR4 (CMK16GX4M2D3600C18), SSD is 970 EVO Plus, currently blank but going to be boot drive, GPU is MSI AMD RX580. PSU is 550W. Once I installed all the components and double, triple checked that all the cords and cables and whatnots were all plugged in correctly, I tried to boot, and everything lit up but no display. Debug light said CPU, but when I rebooted it said VGA and then boot. Reseated RAM, reseated GPU, reseated CPU, checked all power cables, replaced HDMI cable. Had my old SSD in there from an intel rig, so I bought the samsung 970 one and tried with that and a windows USB boot device, but no luck, same symtpoms, except now the debug is literally random, sometimes it says CPU sometimes VGA sometimes VGA and CPU sometimes just boot, never DRAM though funnily enough. Cleared CMOS by shorting and by removing battery, no luck either time. Tried to flash BIOS with a USB and the flash button, just incase BIOS was the issue, even though my board is b550 but the flash bios LED didn't stay on or flash, it just turned on when I pressed the button and then turned off again, so I'm not sure it worked. Tried different configurations of RAM, checked that MOBO was on standoffs and not case, tried other M.2 slot, googled and googled, and I can't find anything and nothing works. Is there anything I'm missing, anything anyone can think of to try, or do I literally just have to assume something isn't working and RMA everything one by one? Thanks in advance for anyone's help. Cheers.

I've been on forums all around the internet and a lot has happened since... My internet works now....kind of. I did just about everything anyone could think of, and then I reset my Cmos and rebooted my modem and router. It actually didn't work the first time I booted in, but then then next time search results loaded immediately, and the Edge home page showed up. However, when I tried to access a website, I got 'Your connection isn't private NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID error code DLG_FLAGS_INVALID_CA". So I thought maybe my date and time had been screwed up but they were fine, I changed browser, I cleared my cache I turned off firewall, turned off browser asking for confirmation or something in internet settings....then I noticed I couldn't connect to the windows update service either, and I could log into Steam, but nothing loaded. Very strange. I really have no idea what the hell is happening now. Any clue what I could do?? Thanks for all the help.

My ethernet card is attached to the motherboard, don't have any sort of PCIe replacement. I can boot from the SSD or my HDD, but the internet doesn't work on either, reaaallly not sure what to do. Thanks for the reply though.

I bought a new SSD the other day to replace my old, shitty HDD, and I initially tried to clone my OS from HDD to SSD using Acronis, but it didn't like that, so instead I tried to clone the entire drive, planning on formatting the D : drive afterwards. It also didn't like that, got some weird boot errors and so I decided to instead just format the SSD and do a clean install of windows 10. This worked, and booted up a fresh OS etc., except my internet no longer worked. The computer is connected via ethernet and says it has internet access, but nothing loads. I tried to install network adapter drivers, but it told me I didn't have an Intel (r) adapter...so I installed my chipset drivers (will put specs etc at the end incase that helps) and that actually let me install the network adapter driver...great! Except not great. Now when I open my browser (I only have edge as I can't install chrome) it will load a search result after about a minute, but it is not able to load any websites. I can't click on any of the results, they just load endlessly until it says "cannot reach this page". Troubleshooting returns no problems, Intel's network adapter program returns no problems, I can ping my network and it all works, and the fact that it can produce search results seems to indicate that the internet is at least working....I thought maybe it was the browser, so I tried to open steam and it was not able to log in, couldn't connect to steam network. Is this a problem with drivers? My motherboard? The SSD? The HDD (internet also doesn't work on the HDD, maybe suggests it's not a problem with either SSD or HDD, not sure though)? The CPU? I have installed an re-installed the drivers so many times now. I really don't think it's a driver issue, despite that being the most common issue when this happens for people online. P.S. when I got those boot errors on SSD and HDD the thing that fixed it was formatting the EFI partition and then I followed some guide and did some bootrec stuff. Please help, I really don't know what else I can try, thanks :(((( Specs - Motherboard - H170 pro gaming from Asus CPU - i5-6500 SSD - Crucial 1TB P1 M.2 HDD - Some 1TB WD thing, not exactly sure. Connected via ethernet

Ignore previous post if you saw it, still have a problem sorry. Very strange now however. Installing chipset drivers allowed me to install the network adapter drivers, however at first the internet still did not work, despite windows saying I had an internet connection and neither the troubleshooter nor Intel's network adapter software could detect any problems. Then a bing search loaded results, and I thought maybe my PC was working now. However it now takes about two minutes to load a search results, but then can't do anything else. I can't connect to steam, I can't load an actual website, only the search result, and it takes a while. Is this still a driver issue? Internet still works on all other devices. Please help! Thank you!

Thank you so much! I'll try it and see how I go.

I cloned it using Acronis clone function, just set it to auto partition size and transfer all files. Will I find all the drivers by just looking up my motherboard? Some of the drivers I saw on there were quite old, some said beta. I have a dusk that came with the motherboard, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I got the installer through the media creation tool and got a windows key free through my university. I have no idea what either build number is, but if there's a way to find out I can check.

Right, long story, need desperate help. Bought an SSD to upgrade form my HDD the other day, and wanted to clone my OS onto the SSD to use as a boot drive. Discovered that I couldn't just clone one partition with the software, so instead cloned the whole thing. Booted from the SSD and got an error. No winload.exe or something. Same thing happened on the hard drive when I booted from that. Grabbed a windows installation thing and messed around in command prompt with bootrec and managed to get it working. Hard drive still shows error, but I can select "use different OS" and then click on windows 10 in a different volume (4 if it matters) and it boots...the problem was, my ethernet stopped working. It says I'm connected, but I have no access to the internet on the HDD or SSD. Tried to install drivers for my motherboard (H170 Pro gaming from Asus), but it told me I didn't have Intel (r) adapters. So I formatted the SSD and tried a fresh load of windows 10, got it working, but the internet still did not work. Downloaded Intel ethernet drivers from another computer and tries those, thought maybe the ones for my motherboard were out of date. Same problem, no Intel (r) adapters. REALLY don't know what else to do, I have nothing left to try. I just uninstalled the ethernet connection driver in device manager as per Intel website and rebooted to no avail. Super duper need help. Is this a software issue? Hardware? What can I do to fix it?!!!?!?!?!! The SSD I bought was a 1TB crucial P1 M.2 Motherboard is H170 Pro gaming Windows 10 Ethernet Hard drive is some WD 1tb something. Have I broken my hard drive? Computer? SSD? Motherboard? Please help.

Thanks for the tips guys... I managed to get the USB connector directly onto the pins, which actually straightened them up enough that I was able to force the plastic bit back onto the pins. A little bit barbaric, and I swear I almost broke the pins so many times (accidentally or on purpose). Everything looks "good" now, and the cable is back in, so I don't reckon I'll need any glue. Tip for anyone that comes across this with a similar issue or just a stuck header....if the plastic bit starts to come off, push it back on. Don't just say "FK it" and pull the whole thing off because you've been pulling at the header for half an hour. Peace.

When I first built my PC a few years ago I did literally 0 cable management. Tonight I opened my case to clean out the dust, and saw the horrible mess of cables I'd left there. So decided to do some cable management. Long story short, was having trouble getting the USB 3.0 header out of the MOBO, saw other people online had similar issues, but I kept trying. Eventually I got it off...except the plastic pin protector thing came with it. Now I can't manage to put that plastic bit on, think maybe one or more of the pins may have been slightly bent. Impossible to get on. Any ideas or tips on how to proceed? All help appreciated, thanks!! Also feel free to call me stupid or whatever you please, I deserve it.