Help with AMD 5600X bootlooping.

[Sovereign Tea]

Hey just making this thread because I'm all out of ideas on what to do.

 

The 5600X was too good of a deal to pass up, so I purchase a whole new setup as I was upgrading from an old i7 3770K.

 

Initially I had issues with the Gskill Trident RGB RAM kit I received, it had been rated for 3600 MHz at CL18, yet it wasn't stable even with voltage tweaking, ended up having to clock out down the 3200 at CL18 until I get it RMA'd.

 

Then, one day later while watching some vids on YouTube, my entire system suddenly shutdown. No BSOD, no error codes, no warning, it just lost power entirely.

 

After restarting, it started bootlooping. Either by B550 MOBO tries to system repair, and then crashes immediately, or it sometimes very rarely boots to the windows screen, where it tries to repair there, and also crashes instantly.

 

So far I have reseated by CPU, Reseated RAM, reset MOBO to default settings, flashed BIOS of ram down a version, Flashed BIOS to most recent version, tested PSU and GPU on my old MOBO, tried booting with a windows 10 bootdrive (which results in the same crash and reboot)

 

All devices show in the BIOS, the CPU shows in the BIOS and I can under and overclock it, the RAM shows, the storage shows, by GPU shows.

 

I'm think it's either the MOBO is just corrupted to the point where flashing isn't fixing it, for some reason, or the MOBO is actually damaged somehow. The CPU may be damaged and just be able to work in the BIOS without issues. Or it's a Windows 10 issue, but that doesn't explain why I can't just use a bootdrive to install or even try to repair the install.

 

Any ideas on what to do?

When I wake tomorrow I plan on placing my CPU into my cousin's computer and placing his CPU in mine to test if it's the CPU, but besides that, I'm out of ideas besides RMA for the MOBO.

[boggy77]

what mobo? what PSU? is your ram in slots 2 and 4? try to clear cmos

[Sovereign Tea]

2 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

what mobo? what PSU? is your ram in slots 2 and 4? try to clear cmos

Mobo is Aorus B550 Pro, PSU is Corsair RM650X, ram is in slots 2 and 4, CMOS has been cleared (I shoulda mentioned that last one in the OG post, sorry)

[BTGbullseye]

I don't suppose you have a spare CPU you can test it with? That's about the only way to know if it's CPU related or motherboard related.

[Sovereign Tea]

23 hours ago, BTGbullseye said:

I don't suppose you have a spare CPU you can test it with? That's about the only way to know if it's CPU related or motherboard related.

Yeah I tested it today with my cousin's setup.

His CPU in my MOBO results in a clean boot, my CPU in his MOBO results in the same boot error.

 

Kinda crappy that one of the first upgrades I get in 8 years and my first time with AMD, results in a dud CPU but what can you do.

 

Hopefully RMA doesn't take too long, if anyone knows how long that takes an estimate would be appreciated.

 

I live in Australia if that makes any difference.

[BTGbullseye]

9 hours ago, Sovereign Tea said:

Yeah I tested it today with my cousin's setup.

His CPU in my MOBO results in a clean boot, my CPU in his MOBO results in the same boot error.

 

Kinda crappy that one of the first upgrades I get in 8 years and my first time with AMD, results in a dud CPU but what can you do.

 

Hopefully RMA doesn't take too long, if anyone knows how long that takes an estimate would be appreciated.

 

I live in Australia if that makes any difference.

AMD's RMA system was very quick and painless for me, but I'm in the USA.

 

They actually upgraded my CPU at no cost just because they were low on stock.