Ryzen System Upgrade Reboot Loop

[snowfoot101]

As the title states just upgraded pc from this:

Intel i7 3770k

Asrock z77 extreme 6

Corsair H100i AIO

16 GB x4 DIMMs Gskill Ripjaws DDR3-1600

Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM

Samsung 850 evo 500GB SATA III SSD

Seasonic 850W 80+ Gold PSU

 

To This:

Ryzen 7 3700X

Asrock x370 killer sli/ac atx am4

Stock AMD Prism Cooler

16 GB x2 DIMMs Team Group T-force DDR4-3000 RGB

(Kept storage and PSU)

 

I've tried:

• reseating just about every part in the PC
• unplugging the graphics card and trying to post with the onboard 
• clearing the cmos by unplugging the battery and using the onboard jumper
• using one stick of ram in various slots

Everything seems to have power though but just can't get the thing to post as it turns on for about 10 seconds and infinitely reboots itself until I cut the power. I understand in order to get 3rd gen ryzen to work with this mobo i need to flash i bios update which I have on a flash drive ready to go, however I don't see how I am supposed to do this if I can't get into the bios at all.

[Lurick]

I assume that board doesn't have a BIOS update without CPU feature, if so then you need to update the BIOS before installing the CPU by getting a supported CPU first, updating, and then swapping out.

AMD does offer boot kits to do this or you can take it to a shop and see if they'll update it for a few bucks.

[.Apex.]

9 minutes ago, snowfoot101 said:

Everything seems to have power though but just can't get the thing to post as it turns on for about 10 seconds and infinitely reboots itself until I cut the power. I understand in order to get 3rd gen ryzen to work with this mobo i need to flash i bios update which I have on a flash drive ready to go, however I don't see how I am supposed to do this if I can't get into the bios at all.

You flash the BIOS using a CPU that is already supported on that motherboard, you can't boot with the 3700X, take it to a PC shop to update the BIOS or borrow from a friend a 1st Gen or possibly a 2nd Gen Ryzen CPU since some of them have their BIOSes updated to support 2nd Gen.

[boggy77]

13 minutes ago, snowfoot101 said:

Ryzen 7 3700X

Asrock x370 killer sli/ac atx am4

why though?

[seagate_surfer]

You can do another hardware test as follows, connect only the PSU, RAM (one stick at a time), CPU and the monitor to the MOBO. Then try to access the BIOS and perform a reset, if you cannot even enter the BIOS in this way you may be experiencing defective RAM problems. (Or problems with teh actual MOBO  and I hope this is not the case)