New Machine not Posting

[ImAyaanKhan]

I have a Ryzen 5 3600 and a Gigabyte B450m DS3H V2 motherboard. GPU is a Radeon Pro WX2100 from ebay that the seller claims he's tested. RAM is a 2x16gb kit clocked at 3200MHz. I assembled the PC the day before yesterday, and it wouldn't post at all. Tried taking out the ram modules and testing them individually (same board, I don't have access to another pc atm, just this laptop), and tried changing the GPU slot. When that didn't work I just left it alone until this morning, and upon pulling the CPU out I noticed some thermal paste on the socket and pins, but it wasn't much and I cleaned it off using a toothbrush with some rubbing alchohol on it. I also tried a CMOS clear just in case, and I still don't get any video output. I'm also noticing that the GPU seems to take 15-20 seconds to turn on after the rest of the system, but I have no way of testing the cpu or ram.

[Wolly9102]

BIOS isn't up to date I think. You can get an bootkit from AMD to update it to the latest version that support the 3600 

 

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

[ImAyaanKhan]

Just now, Wolly9102 said:

BIOS isn't up to date I think. You can get an bootkit from AMD to update it to the latest version that support the 3600 

 

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

It's a b450 motherboard and I've seen reviews from others who say it worked first try, however if it really might be the issue I'll give it a shot

[Wolly9102]

Just now, ImAyaanKhan said:

It's a b450 motherboard and I've seen reviews from others who say it worked first try, however if it really might be the issue I'll give it a shot

I see in your signature that you have an 1600. You can try booting with that cpu also

[ImAyaanKhan]

Just now, Wolly9102 said:

I see in your signature that you have an 1600. You can try booting with that cpu also

As I said in my first post, I don't have access to another machine at the moment, and that includes the one in my signature, unfortunately

[jaslion]

Try with one stick. 16gb sticks are known on ryzen 3000 to have some compatibility issues especially with an older bios.

[ImAyaanKhan]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Try with one stick. 16gb sticks are known on ryzen 3000 to have some compatibility issues especially with an older bios.

Already tried that, as I stated in my first post

[Wolly9102]

1 minute ago, ImAyaanKhan said:

Already tried that, as I stated in my first post

Stupid question. Do you have acutal proof of your GPU working from the ebay seller?

[ImAyaanKhan]

Just now, Wolly9102 said:

Stupid question. Do you have acutal proof of your GPU working from the ebay seller?

I don't, however I can contact him, and he offers 30 day returns

[Wolly9102]

Just now, ImAyaanKhan said:

I don't, however I can contact him, and he offers 30 day returns

Could be two things. (Dead GPU or out of date bios).

 

You could try the speaker/beeper if it came with the motherboard.

[ImAyaanKhan]

Just now, Wolly9102 said:

Could be two things. (Dead GPU or out of date bios).

 

You could try the speaker/beeper if it came with the motherboard.

It's a low end motherboard so it doesn't have any indicators or speakers, but I'll try and get the bios flashback kit

[ImAyaanKhan]

1 hour ago, Wolly9102 said:

BIOS isn't up to date I think. You can get an bootkit from AMD to update it to the latest version that support the 3600 

 

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

 

Just went to gigabyte's website and saw this for my board...

[SacredBovine]

If you bought your motherboard brand new, it should have 3000 series support already. Been selling that board for 2 years and stopped getting ones needing a flash after about a month or two after the 3000 launch. I'm suspicious of that GPU. Never been a big fan of AMD GPUs recently. They have too many quirks.  

[ImAyaanKhan]

10 hours ago, SacredBovine said:

If you bought your motherboard brand new, it should have 3000 series support already. Been selling that board for 2 years and stopped getting ones needing a flash after about a month or two after the 3000 launch. I'm suspicious of that GPU. Never been a big fan of AMD GPUs recently. They have too many quirks.  

Hmm yeah, I looked at gigabyte's website and it says that for the v2 edition of the b450m ds3h (which is what I have) ryzen 3000 has been supported since launch. I also did buy it new from amazon