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IMPOSSIBLE TROUBLESHOOTING

Jakaboii
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I'm going absolutely mental. PC wasnt POSTing so I purchased:

Motherboard: MSI PRO X670-P WIFI

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x

Ram: Vengence 32g DDR5 5600MHz

 

To go with my GPU (RTX 3060) and basically replaced my whole computer hoping it would finally work after days of trying to troubleshoot.. I've just completed my build and I'm still not getting any POST but every fan or rgb light etc all turn on, and now on this new motherboard I'm getting an Ez debug light on DRAM and CPU.

 

I have tried absolutely everything on both my old system and the new: GPU in and out, clear cmos, every ram slot, reseat cpu.. blah blah blah basically anything I found online I tried and for some reason despite all my trials and tribulations it still isn't working and it has no reason to be acting up like this.

 

I'm in the depths of desperation right now and have spent wayy to much money for this to still not work, this is a cry for help🙏🙏

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3 minutes ago, chtorogu said:

Are you using the same PSU as you had in the old PC?

Same PSU, I thought it could possibly be an issue with the CPU connector on the PSU but I don't know of any way to verify, nor do I think I have a spare cable

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2 minutes ago, Jakaboii said:

Same PSU, I thought it could possibly be an issue with the CPU connector on the PSU but I don't know of any way to verify, nor do I think I have a spare cable

Get a PSU tester.

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8 minutes ago, Jakaboii said:

Is there anything else atall I could try that i haven't yet before I go spending even more money

If you have a multimeter, you could completely disconnect the power supply from the PC, jumper the green wire on the 24-pin connector to ground, and manually measure your power rails.

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so as mentioned to some degree, if the pc is not playing ball then I would be inclined to lean towards a part that has not been replaced as being the culprit (though may not be?)

 

so you mention trying everything you found online, have you built the pc out of the case (breadboard) with nothing other than the cpu in and 1 stick of ram and obviously psu....nothing else connected, just to see if it gets past the cpu/ram initialisation, if it does then add the gpu see if you can get into bios etc

 

 

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7 minutes ago, aledsav1 said:

so as mentioned to some degree, if the pc is not playing ball then I would be inclined to lean towards a part that has not been replaced as being the culprit (though may not be?)

 

so you mention trying everything you found online, have you built the pc out of the case (breadboard) with nothing other than the cpu in and 1 stick of ram and obviously psu....nothing else connected, just to see if it gets past the cpu/ram initialisation, if it does then add the gpu see if you can get into bios etc

 

 

I was hoping the whole time it wouldn't be a PSU issue, especially since now I'm after replacing perfectly working parts.

 

That, coupled with the fact I initially got it to post sometimes on boot but after a few days never gave me another post, and that sometimes it would just get stuck in a neverending bootloop with no posts.

 

I thought initially it could never be the PSU so I overlooked it, could turn out to be a mistake but I'll try some more tests when I'm back home😬

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My experience of boot loops is usually something else (never been the psu for me), faulty board.chip,ram,drives..it could be psu but i would certainly test out of case with only what is needed to get into bios, I would then add gpu, make some insignificant changes in the bios, save exit go back in just to see its a least somewhat stable at bios level with gpu, only then add os drive, test etc, before then adding other everything else.

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I replaced the CPU cable on the PSU after looking at the old one (saw possible scortch marks?)

 

Threw the new cable in and I'm still getting the Ez debug lights and heard a loud enough click after a slight pause when I pressed the PC power button, still not so much as sending a signal to the monitor, and at this stage everything is new except for my ssd, hard drive and psu.

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