MSI stuck at BIOS? Loaner CPU does not work?

[TheWutofWat]

So short story long... Wait

 

 

So I sold off my old motherboard to someone I know locally and with it my old CPU too, the MSI B350 PC MATE & 3700X

Yes they are good stuff, I have new ones now.

The issue, the person who I sold the stuff to put the CPU onto the mobo and spilled a bit of thermal paste into the socket, ouchies, well CPU and mobo work how? Tried CPU on mine a MSI X570 A PRO. Mobo tried the loaner kit CPU, A8-9600

 

RAM is GSKILL F4-3200C16D-16GTZR

 

Here is the issue, when I boot up the mobo with the loaner kit, the bios get stuck at the BIOS settings menu and I can't even do anything with my keyboard at all, the "ez debug led shows: boot" not sure why? No HDD or sad are installed.

 

So tell me what is wrong with this mobo? Is it the CPU not working or is it the ram?

[TheWutofWat]

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