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after a year of saving i have just finished building my pc, and nothing is responding. the cpu light is on, and i cant really troubleshoot to see whats wrong as i dont have any spare parts lying around. specs: mobo- msi mag b550 tomahawk cpu - ryzen 79700g gpu - (still saving up for it) ram - Kingston fury 2 x 16GB storage- i have a 4tb Seagate hdd, and a 400GB Kingston ssd the fans spin to life and the rgb comes on, but my monitor never gets any form of signal. I believe its my cpu that's the problem and not the mobo socket, as when the processor arrived from amazon there were some bent pins but i managed to get them straight again with some tweezers. allso when i turn it on and everything else is on the cpu dosent change in temp without a cooler on it.

Yesterday my nvme M.2 SSD arrived (1TB XS70) and I went to install it, booted up my PC and their was no display or logo pop up and no way to access the Bios. So I thought I’d just remove it and try booting up again but it now wouldn’t post? I tried using a bootable USB and after I booted got a solid white CPU led, is it possible I knocked the CPU slightly out of its socket while installing the M.2? I did hit it a little hard as I didn’t have a lot of space since I have a MATX board and a somewhat chunky Red Devil 6600XT (later removed the GPU to get more space, and yes I reseated the GPU). I have reseated the CPU but I haven’t booted yet I saw the thermal paste on it and it didn’t look great, didn’t spread well, was cheap, had air pockets/bubbles (at least I was told), and was greasy. I know this isn’t the trouble shooting I should be focused on but I have done so much trouble shooting that I’m now here. In terms of trouble shooting I’ve tried: Testing the DP/HDMI cables, switching GPU ports, making sure I was plugged into the GPU, resetting CMOS and jumping the pins, attempting to use the integrated graphics in my CPU, reseating the ram, switching sata ports on my boot drive, removing all drives but my boot drive, booting with no drives, checking if my 2 monitors are working, trying to boot with one stick of ram, reseating GPU, checking for power connecters that are disconnected, disconnecting all USB/Drives to attempt to get to the bios, and using a bootable USB. There a more things I tried but I can’t remember it all. SPECS 64x OS 5600g Red Devil 6600XT Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 3200mhz cl16 450W 80+ Bronze PSU (A bit underpowered but still worked perfectly fine even with the iGPU enabled) MSI B550M Pro VDH-Wi-Fi Silicon Power Ace A55 2.5-inch 128gb SATA (As original boot drive) 1TB Silicon Power XS70 NVME M.2 drive (supposed to be replacing the boot drive, and no I didn’t unplug the boot drive) PNY Pro Elite PS 500GB external SSD Hitachi HDE721010SLA330 1TB Not sure what bios version I’m on as I can’t access the bios, but I’ve never updated the bios, but I got the board about a month ago. It was working perfectly fine before.

So I just got a RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra about a month ago. I didn't have any problems with posting issues until I got my new case (Corsair 5000x) and the corsair commander pro. Now almost everytime I turn on my pc it gets stuck on one of the debug lights. It seems like it's a different one everytime. If it does manage to get past the debug lights and post, then half of the time it won't boot windows. I've tried re seating everything, unplugging all power cables, I also did a bios update and im on the latest version. My guess is either a MOBO issue, bios issue, or PSU isn't powerful enough (I do have the protection on in bios so that if an unstable current hits it should auto turn off), but I can't figure out which one and I don't want to get something new if I don't have too. Specs- -MSI B550 Gaming Plus -Ryzen 5 3600x -Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 16GB 3000MHz (Planning to upgrade speed lol) -EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra LHR ( currently set in non OC bios) -Corsair RM750 PSU -10 Corsair Case fans -NZXT Kraken M22 (120mm rad) -3 HDD and 1 M.2 drive I went back and did a lot of editing on this so if something doesn't make sense or it feels kinda scattered I'm sorry. lol

My computer a custom build with a Gigabyte GA-Z170x Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 mother board a intel i7 -6700k 4 GHz processor 2x rtx 1080 ti's and 850w power supply isnt working. One say I set it to sleep and insted of moving the mouse to wake it up i pressed the power button and it turned of. I thought nothing of it and booted it back on and nothing posted. All the lights on the graphics cards ect turned on. The one thing different about the lighs was the aio cooler (corsair hydro series h100i) light turned red like normal for a second then suddenly turned white. We eventually took it to tech center and they sayed it was a power supply issue but the mother board still has power along with the graphics cards what do I do. Is it a hard drive issue? Do I try and get a new power supply?? HELP?

Hey there kind people! I have 2 GPUs - RTX 3060 and a GTX 980 Ti, both of them work if they are the only GPU in the system in either of the PCI-e slots. However, if they are plugged in at the same time, after powering on the pc it doesn't get to the BIOS screen and motherboard shows the "boot" error light. Now they did previously work in that configuration (both GPUs at the same time), I only ran into this problem when I installed a new m.2 drive in my pc. Next time I turned it on, it stopped POSTing. Later I even disconnected ALL the drives from the system, no m.2 and sata drives were left connected, yet the pc still didn't post until the 2nd GPU was removed. I'm thinking this could be a power supply issue as I'm running a Corsair 750w power supply. However before I purchase a new (1500w) PSU I want to have some confidence that it will actually solve the issue. My PC specs are: Ryzen 5950x 32 GB RAM ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Corsair RM750x PSU GPUs (can only use one at the time because of this): RTX 3060 EVGA GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte Xtreme Drives: 1TB WD nvme m.2 ssd 256GB kingston ssd 2TB Seagate HDD 4TB Seagate HDD

Hey So I have just finished building my christmas gift PC and guess what no POST. Specs are the following: Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450m k II (Before you say anything about b450, on paper this mb IS Ryzen 3000 ready it even has the sticker.) Cpu: Ryzen 3100 Ram: 1x8g Exceleram Black Kudos 3000mhz and 1x8g Exceleram Black Kudos 3200mhz (these were the only two at a reasonable price hence the mhz difference but they worked well in my old pc) Gpu: ASUS Cerberos GTX 1070 TI - it is used but the guy benchmarked it in front of my eyes before packing it. PSU: Cougar VTE 600, 80+ Bronze 600W Hard Drives: My 2 old 1TB HDDs and my trusty ole 240GB Adata SATA SSD (I know its slow) Things that happened that might have had an effect on the build: When installing the CPU Cooler, I accidentally overtightened the top screws too early so they pulled the backplate up so much that the bottom screws were not making contact, but Ive loosened them and eased in the rest till it was balanced and all screws were tight. The computer also killed the electricity in the house the first two times I tried to turn it on but it was the apartments fault, the flat has two circuits and like 70percent of stuff is plugged into the first one because it has way more ouets so it usually gets overwhelmed, so it was on me for not thinking about it but it was not because of the PSU, when using an extender from an outlet of the second circuit it turned on - thats when it didn’t post. I DID unseat and reseat the ram tried different slots, etc. Also tried booting without the graphics card and reseated it aswell. Is it possible that I’ve bent a PIN while fudging around with the cooler? Can it be that since this PSU is only 80+ it and realistically gives out 540Watts that it cant power the system? The box asks for a 550W power supply for the card but Ive read that it should only need the amount under load. Can it be, that even tho it has the no BIOS update needed sticker for Ryzen 3000 my motherboard still needs one? Did I miss something?(Please don’t mind the cables, its not yet managed) Any help would be much apprechiated, and I wish yall a Happy Holiday!

Hello! I have been having this issue for a couple days now and I have tried numerous of things to fix this issue but now Im getting desperate and now looking to you guys for help. The computer is having three different issues that randomly happen: - Most commonly the computer fans will turn on and turn off repeatedly until I forcefully shut off the computer. Of course this means no display. - The second thing it does is it sometimes turns on and DOESNT turn off, but there is no display on my monitor and my keyboard & mouse dont turn on - The third thing is if Im lucky it turns on, everything turns on and I can get into BIOS. I can not go any farther than that as it wont boot windows and instead just go black screen and turn my keyboard & mouse off. - To go with all of this, the computer doesnt actually "power off" either. After going into BIOS and exiting it, the computer fans will stay on for some reason and I will not have a display. Of course I have to forcefully shut it off. I did a lot of things I can do, which was; - Reset the CMOS battery - Reseated all cables in the system (psu, fans, the ssd stuff, and extras) - Tested PSU in another system (works perfectly fine) - Tested the two SSDs in another system (works perfectly fine) - Tested the GPU in another system (also works perfectly fine) - Wiped the main SSD of the computer (to remove windows 11) and did a fresh installation of Windows 10 - Reset all BIOS settings if I was lucky enough to get there - I removed each ram stick one by one and tested each one, neither ram sticks are the issue Computer Specs: Blaze 2 from Skytech Case: Skytech Blaze 2 Tempered Glass Case CPU Cooler: Wraith Stealth Cooler CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8-Core 3.2 Ghz Motherboard: ASROCK B450m/ac (Current BIOS version is 2.70) RAM: 32GB DDR4 3000MHz Graphics: Nvidia GEForce RTX 2060 6gb (Gigabyte) 500gb SSD PSU: 550 Watt 80 plus bronze certified (Gamdios Kratos M1) Video I recorded of the computer having a couple of the issues it was doing that was stated above: This computer was a prebuilt bought in 2020 by the Skytech company, we had issues with other things in this sytem but I was honestly not expecting to have this big of an issue. I am in desperate need of getting this fixed as I stream for a living. I dont have any technician near me as I live in the middle of no where and I really do not have the money to replace anything in the system. The big question I also have to ask is that, does the Motherboard need to be replaced? Its the only thing we came to for a solution as everything else seems to work. But at the same time Im worried I might have really poor BIOS settings or something. I also unfortunately only have a $90 budget max if I do need to replace something in this system

Hi there. I recently was gifted 16gb or ram more making 32gb (why idk) but after I installed the dims my pc wouldn’t post. But my monitors wouldn’t say they DONT have a connection. Very confusing. To fix this I reset my coms (taking out the battery on my motherboard to reset the bios) and it fixed the issue. I went back into bios enabled xmp/ mem OC. Restarted my pc and BOOM same thing happens. It dosnt show on my screen. I can live with running lower mem speed but I really would like to increase my performance. anyone know what I can do. HARDWARE: cpu ryzen 9 5900x ram coirsar 4x8gb Motherboard MSI B550 gaming plus dont think there is anything else that is relevant

I am desperate for some help at the moment. I bought a new motherboard to replace my old one since it was getting a bit dated. The new board will not post, no matter what I do. I will get fan spin, LEDs, GPU power, it will pass the memory check and then the diagnostic light for the CPU will stay red forever, I have let it sit and churn for a while hoping it would post but no luck. Here is the real kicker, I know the board works because it posted multiple times for some unknown reason after I shorted the reset pins a couple random times with a screwdriver, and then I rebuilt the rest of the system thinking it was good but it wouldn't post again after. Troubleshooting I have done: -Swapped PSU - swapped memory, tested each stick in every slot -tested the cpu in another board, works perfectly -tested my memory with another board, work perfectly -unplugged everything non essential and it still wouldn't work. -reset CMOS -removed CMOS battery -tried varying degrees of pressure on the CPU from my aio cooler -unplugged board and CMOS and let sit for hours -checked for ram comparability with my board, should work just fine. -bought a secondary CPU eps cable to power the four pin power slot besides the 8 pin which should be plenty on its own in theory Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard: Asus x570-plus(wifi) Tuf gaming Ram: DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 2x8 GPU: Zotac Extreme Edition GTX 1080 Cooler: Cooler Master Master Liquid 240mm rad PSU: Corsair CX750M

I recently just upgraded my PC from an AMD FX-8350 to a R5 3600. I put all my parts in and connected everything to the right places. However, when I started it up, I know usually it would take some time to post and show you if you want to get into bios or not, but I wasn't getting any post display and can't even get into bios. Is there an issue with the cpu or ram possibly? Any help? Specs: AMD R5 3600 Asus ROG Strix B450 (with bios updated), Teamgroup T-force 16gb 3200mhz ram XFX RX 5600xt 1 tb hdd + 240gb ssd EVGA 500w PSU Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

After my old motherboard seemed to have a broken RAM slot for no reason and other weird stuff happened [Detailed here] I bought a new board. This board (like the last) has EZ Debug LEDs and after putting everything in and getting it all set up, it doesn't boot. The LEDs show a CPU related issue and so I remove the CPU to check for anything abnormal, but in the process of removing the cpu the cooler ripped the cpu out with it. My dumba** decides that instead of sliding the cpu off I must brute force go against the paste (why is the stuff like liquid welder oml) and as you can expect once it did come off I dropped it ~30cm onto my glass table... So I then spent the next 2 or so hours finding and bending straight about 10 pins on the CPU (it's an AMD) until it could socket. In the process of bending the pins not one pin broke off, not even the two that were bent at a near 90 degree angle. I got the CPU to socket, slapped the cooler with a bit less thermal paste on it and tried to post, to no avail. Once more I checked over the pins to see if any where gone/bent but nothing, even spending a full hour and a half with a piece of black cardboard and a flashlight going row to row twice over I found nothing, and so I cleaned the pins with a never used toothbrush and isopropyl but still nothing. The CPU is an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (I won the silicon lottery on it getting a stable oc of 4.20ghz even) and the Motherboard is the brand new MSI B550 Pro-VDH WiFi, the board says it should support my CPU but I'm wondering if I broke it by dropping it. Any suggestions for fixing/troubleshooting will be amazing.

Hey. Before starting i just wanna apologize for my bad English . So i just put this build together... This is the first system that i have built btw. R5 3600 Asus prime B450M-A motherboard(3000 series compatible) 3200Mhz xpg 16Gb spectrix D41 ram 120,Gb lexar sata m.2 8Gb power cooler Radeon Vega 64 650W psu by thunder 80+bronze( i know its kind of unknown brand but the psu is quite common where i live) 1Tb WD HDD Now i have connected everything properly and the system turns on...the fans spun the gpu is working hower it does not post and neither do my keyboard and mouse work... I looked and saw that my ram was not working... I changed sockets tried 1 stick at a time even followed the manual for resetting it with cmos thing both with and without the onboard power cell. Any fix for this i cannot get it to post. Thanks in advance. I have attached the system pic as well the manual section i followed.

Salut! I got a new case after my old case was rusting (9 year old case lol) and after putting everything in it didn't post. I thought it was the GPU because the debug lights on my MSI B350M Gaming PRO said it was such, but it turned out to be my CPU (Ryzen 5 2600). Now it turned out that somehow I got a tidbit of thermal paste onto the pins of the CPU, this was cleaned out using a toothbrush and isopropyl alcohol. After slapping the now clean CPU in and putting my AIO onto it my pc posted and booted to Windows...But with one of my ram sticks being reserved for system. Thinking it was odd I swapped the ram sticks around to see if that would do it, still only one stick. Trying to find what stick it was I booted with only one stick installed, it booted with stick A in, then it didn't post with stick B, I put stick A in and booted to bios thinking that I should go ahead and update bios when I was already working on my pc. I flashed it and it booted just fine. My father thought that maybe with the new bios the other stick may work (okay I'll trust you, you are the head of IT at your work idk), after putting stick B along with stick A in, my pc didn't post. My board doesn't show any debug leds and can sit there with fans ramped up for 30min on end without posting. I've swapped the sticks around and tried with only one in, the Bios looked different from the other one that I had (had "MSI Click BIOS 5" from around 2018 and went to 7A39v2NR). I'ved tried clearing CMOS to no avail. This all is really odd to me because I didn't even remove the RAM from the board when swapping cases (idk what the hell happened with the CPU, I had my dad install the AIO when I was away). Parts; Motherboard: MSI B350M Gaming PRO CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 OC 4.20Ghz GPU: Zotac GTX 1060 6gb AMP Edition PSU: EVGA 500W RAM: [2] Ballistix 2666MHz 8gb New Case: Cooler Master Q300L Old Case: Unknown Would love any input on how I could try and fix this.

My computer refuses to post in duel channel RAM configuration. I tired every configuration you can do with 2 RAM sticks and 4 SLOTS, It will no port unless it is in configuration of A1:A2 - I cleared the CMOS through the jumper pins and reset all my frequency to 3200 and still have the same posting issue. Hell the GPU will not even power on until I have the RAM in configuration of A1:A2 Any one have any Ideas what I can do to get this to post in duel channel?

My pc can post, it's just that sometimes when i turn it on the fans rev up then rev back down over and over again and it never posts. I have to press and hold the power button to get it to stop. Sometimes it takes multiple rounds of this process to actually get the system to post. A few times it has taken more than 20 minutes to post like this. When the system finally does post, my desktop icons are messed up and my system time is wrong. If i go into the bios after one of these fits it says my bios has been reset.

I got a dark rock 3 from be quiet for Christmas, and when I installed it my system didn't post. I tried to configure my memory in different setups, to see if that helped. I have 2*8 sticks and i seated them in the second and fourth sloth. When I pulled out the memory in the fourth sloth, it finally posted. Sometimes it posted but I didn't get any signal to my monitor, and other times it tried to post but it just turned off again. But I wanted the second stick in there as well so I tried and I tried, and when I hit my cpu cooler (bumped into it), it worked again with two sticks. But then I installed a new fan and touched the cpu cooler and know I am having the same problem, only the second slot work. Any thoughts? My specs are: 4770K not overclocked MSI Z87-G45 GAMING Crucial DDR3 16gb (2*8) MSI GTX 1060 6gb Gaming X Corsair CS 750M