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This is now solved, a friend of mine who also got an AM4 build offered to use his parts for testing purposes.

When i inserted my CPU in his motherboard, it reportet all kinds of strange stuff, like the CPU temp was -1o C, CPU voltage was 3,75 and system could not detect the CPU fan, every time i booted it said that a new CPU was inserted.

His CPU worked fine in my new ASUS motherboard.

It just seems strange to me since the CPU is under a year old, the pins were all intact and has never been overclocked or overheated, as far as i know.

I've bought a new Ryzen 5 3600 and is up and running again, thanks to all of you who tried to help resolve this.

 

 

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Hi,

 

I've change my motherboard from a Asrock B450 Gaming-ITX/AC to the ASUS Rog Strix B550-I Gaming (Mainly because the ASROCK motherboard woudn't power down by itself after shutdown)

 

Anyway this is my build:

Ryzen 5 3600
HyperX FURY Red 16GB 2666

Samsung EVO Super 970 m.2 1TB

Gigabyte RTX 2070 WinForce 8GB

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Shift Air ITX chasis

be quiet! SFX-L Power 600W
Corsair K95 Platinum RGB Gaming Keyboard

 

All the parts are tested on my ASROCK motherboard and is working fine.

 

Now to the issue, when i boot up i get to the Asus ROG splash screen and the message "Press F2 or DEL to enter UEFI BIOS settings", is posted. When i tro to press either key, nothing happends and it doesn't boot into Windows 10, an installation from my former motherboard.

On the Asus motherboard i can see the Boot diode (white) is on, indicating that there is a boot device issue (no shit).

I don't know if the screen is frozen or the keyboard simply isn't working, but when i press CTRL + ALT + DEL, the PC restarts and displays the Splash screen again, also i can turn Num lock on/off etc..

 

TLDR: I'm unable to boot to the Windows installation on my m.2 disk and unable to enter the BIOS to solve any boot issue.

 

What i've tried so far:

  • A different keyboard (USB, the motherboard doesnt have PS2 ports)
  • Pluging keyboard into any other USB port.
  • Dissasemling the build and reasemble outside chasis with a bare minimum setup (RAM, CPU, GPU)
  • Removing m.2 disk
  • Updating BIOS using the BIOS button and BIOS USB slot
  • Unpluging all USB devices
  • Resetting BIOS (jumper method)
  • Shuting down PC and Removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes

Anything i might be missing?. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Is the CPU FAN 1 plugged in correctly?

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4 minutes ago, Bahumbaba said:
  • Shuting down PC and Removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes

 

Did you unblug the power cable/turn off the PSU?

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49 minutes ago, Hymenopus_Coronatus said:

Is the CPU FAN 1 plugged in correctly?

Yes, its plugged in to the CPU_FAN pins.

46 minutes ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

Did you unblug the power cable/turn off the PSU?

I did, the motherboard was disconnected from all cables when i did it.

 

46 minutes ago, gloop said:

Have you tried the rest of the Function keys from F3-F12?

Yes, i've tried all F'keys and throughly mashed any buttons to get a reaction, the CTRL + ALT + DEL works fine.

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Unplug any drives and it should boot it directly into the BIOS.  See if that happens as it should.  

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8 minutes ago, nick name said:

Unplug any drives and it should boot it directly into the BIOS.  See if that happens as it should.  

It doesn't. I only got the one M.2 drive connected, unplugged it still stops at the splash screen.

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2 hours ago, Bahumbaba said:

It doesn't. I only got the one M.2 drive connected, unplugged it still stops at the splash screen.

Try and boot windows off a USB, and install it onto a spare HDD or something.

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1 hour ago, gloop said:

Try and boot windows off a USB, and install it onto a spare HDD or something.

No dice, it never boots to the USB, i'm still getting the diode thats indicating a boot issue. I also tried with an Ubuntu live USB, same thing. I'm not getting past the Asus splash screen.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions so far though.

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I also just tried to flash all the older BIOS versions, working my way up from the oldest to the newest. Didn't seem to do much good though.

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12 hours ago, Bahumbaba said:

Hi,

 

I've change my motherboard from a Asrock B450 Gaming-ITX/AC to the ASUS Rog Strix B550-I Gaming (Mainly because the ASROCK motherboard woudn't power down by itself after shutdown)

 

Anyway this is my build:

Ryzen 5 3600
HyperX FURY Red 16GB 2666

Samsung EVO Super 970 m.2 1TB

Gigabyte RTX 2070 WinForce 8GB

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Shift Air ITX chasis

be quiet! SFX-L Power 600W
Corsair K95 Platinum RGB Gaming Keyboard

 

All the parts are tested on my ASROCK motherboard and is working fine.

 

Now to the issue, when i boot up i get to the Asus ROG splash screen and the message "Press F2 or DEL to enter UEFI BIOS settings", is posted. When i tro to press either key, nothing happends and it doesn't boot into Windows 10, an installation from my former motherboard.

On the Asus motherboard i can see the Boot diode (white) is on, indicating that there is a boot device issue (no shit).

I don't know if the screen is frozen or the keyboard simply isn't working, but when i press CTRL + ALT + DEL, the PC restarts and displays the Splash screen again, also i can turn Num lock on/off etc..

 

TLDR: I'm unable to boot to the Windows installation on my m.2 disk and unable to enter the BIOS to solve any boot issue.

 

What i've tried so far:

  • A different keyboard (USB, the motherboard doesnt have PS2 ports)
  • Pluging keyboard into any other USB port.
  • Dissasemling the build and reasemble outside chasis with a bare minimum setup (RAM, CPU, GPU)
  • Removing m.2 disk
  • Updating BIOS using the BIOS button and BIOS USB slot
  • Unpluging all USB devices
  • Resetting BIOS (jumper method)
  • Shuting down PC and Removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes

Anything i might be missing?. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Try to boot to windows on a different drive the m.2s are finicky sometimes when it comes to the first try but should work fine once you set it up in windows

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9 hours ago, Hoodrich Iggy said:

Try to boot to windows on a different drive the m.2s are finicky sometimes when it comes to the first try but should work fine once you set it up in windows

I just tried with a SATA SSD drive with a Windows 10 installation, nothing happends, its still wont get past the splash screen.

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Just tried with other RAM from its compatility list and new GPU, still the same. 

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This is now solved, a friend of mine who also got an AM4 build offered to use his parts for testing purposes.

When i inserted my CPU in his motherboard, it reportet all kinds of strange stuff, like the CPU temp was -1o C, CPU voltage was 3,75 and system could not detect the CPU fan, every time i booted it said that a new CPU was inserted.

His CPU worked fine in my new ASUS motherboard.

It just seems strange to me since the CPU is under a year old, the pins were all intact and has never been overclocked or overheated, as far as i know.

I've bought a new Ryzen 5 3600 and is up and running again, thanks to all of you who tried to help resolve this.

 

 

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