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My PC won't boot after upgrading my CPU

Aight, so basically I had a PC that I built a few years ago, and recently I messed up while applying fresh new thermal paste to my processor, and I ruined it (It was an old fx series).

 

So I decided to buy a new one, and since I already had some DDR4 that I had never used, I just had to buy a new processor and motherboard.

I bought the Ryzen 3200g, and the motherboard which is a gigabyte a320, but it turns out that its bios wasn't up to date to be compatible with my third gen Ryzen, so I had AMD send me a bootkit (which is an athlon) so that I can use it to update the bios so it recognises my Ryzen 3.

 

But when I press the power button my PC wouldn't turn a single light one, let alone boot, so I had Amazon send me a replacement for the motherboard, because I knew all my old oarts worked just fine, and it couldn't be the CPU since I tested two different ones from the first, and the third generation. 

The one they sent had a sticker saying it was ready for third gen Ryzen, but turns out that it didn't work with either my Ryzen or the Athlon boot kit, so I went out of my way and bought a brand new DDR4 memory stick just in case mine for some reason was malfunctioning, but that did not fix the problem, and I just can't figure out what the problem could be, they're supposedly compatible with one another, so there shouldn't be a problem. 

 

My especific components are the following:

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte A320M-S2H
  • CPU: Ryzen 3200g
  • Second CPU: AMDs bootkit is an Athlon 200GE
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400 (1x8) 
  • Second RAM: G. Skill Aegis 3000 (1x8)
  • Power supply: EVGA 500B 80 plus bronze

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Were your power cables properly plugged in?

Was your power supply turned on?

Was your power supply plugged into the wall?

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19 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Were your power cables properly plugged in?

Was your power supply turned on?

Was your power supply plugged into the wall?

Yup, all cables checked more than twice, I made sure everything was right on place, the PSU was on, but I tried turning it off, and back on a few times also, also I tried different outlets, but it made no difference 

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Just now, Llort said:

Yup, all cables checked more than twice, I made sure everything was right on place, the PSU was on, but I tried turning it off, and back on a few times also, also I tried different outlets, but it made no difference 

Hmm.

 

What happens if you try to power on with no memory installed?

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9 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hmm.

 

What happens if you try to power on with no memory installed?

Well, nothing at all. 

 

Here's some extra info:

 

I know the psu and everything works fine, since everything seemed to work prior to me swapping the old mobo, ram, and cpu for the new ones (except for my old cpu which was dead). 

 

I know there's power since the light on my keyboard's logo turns on when the psu is on. 

 

Every cable is in place, and have tried redoing all the cables several times. 

 

My guess is that it's gotta be something regarding compatibility, which is odd because both my cpu and motherboard are compatible, and I've tried two different sticks of ram at different speeds, and even different generations of ryzen cpus. 

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