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MSI B450 Tomahawk Broken

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I bought a B450 Tomahawk Max and it arrived in the mail. being a first time PC builder I was excited, but waited for my other components to arrive before assembling. I assembled it no problem thinking this will be easy. Then the nightmaire started, when I flipped the power switch nothing. not even a fan spooled up. so I though oh no, and had a friend come over and help me test it and we figured out that it was DOA. That's fine, so I returned the m\board and bought another one. Lo and behold the same issue. Is this a common thing with msi products, I followed a build guide to the Tea, but still nothing. any suggestions

 

Also, my specs are

MSI B450 Tomahawk Max

Ryzen 5 3400G

Corsair DDR4 Vengeance ram, 3200 MHZ

Corsair 650W Gold rated psu

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Just curious on how you determined the boards were DOA. It's certainly not impossible that two in a row would be bad and I'm sure you and your friend didn't make a mistake, I'm just genuinely curious since i have the same board and it worked fine.

And if it truly is dead then either gamble a third time or try getting a different board not a whole lot you could do there i think.

"I'M ready to go, I'M already wet."

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Just now, Gabe21 said:

even if I pull the cpu the board wont boot.

Nor will it.

you install the USB, unplug all the drives. Leave the cpu out. Ram out too (it won't matter)

Power up and hit the flash button on the back panel.

 

Here, watch a video about it.

 

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8 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Nor will it.

you install the USB, unplug all the drives. Leave the cpu out. Ram out too (it won't matter)

Power up and hit the flash button on the back panel.

 

Here, watch a video about it.

 

but will a bios needing to be flashed keep even the fans form spinning up?

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3 minutes ago, Gabe21 said:

but will a bios needing to be flashed keep even the fans form spinning up?

Well you RMA'ed the board. Did you get the same board back? Did you take a picture of the serial number? 

 

Or the PSU has an issue, but I'm assuming you and your friend probably thought of that already. 

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1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Well you RMA'ed the board. Did you get the same board back? Did you take a picture of the serial number? 

 

Or the PSU has an issue, but I'm assuming you and your friend probably thought of that already. 

I haven't shipped thr old board back yet, and i ordered from a different company. And wdym by RMA the board?

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Just now, Gabe21 said:

I haven't shipped thr old board back yet, and i ordered from a different company. And wdym by RMA the board?

Oh.

Warranty through MSI.

 

Test the system with a different PSU.

If still the same issue on 2 boards and 2 PSUs, flash the bios on one of them.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Gabe21 said:

I tried it with a 650 evga silver rated, and same thing

Try the bios flashy thingy dealy. It's pretty easy and straight forward I promise you.

Note: pay attention the the bios revision that's installed to the one you are going to install.

At the MSI site, carefully read the Agesa code update bios's. The newest bios may slash support for older gen chips.

That's the problem with B450 boards. The bios only fits X amount of information, so they cannot include processors for 3 generations, let alone 4 when Zen 3 releases.

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