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Hello! I am facing a problem and was hoping to get some advice from someone more knowledgeable. I have the following parts:

 

MOBO: Gigabyte A620M DS3H DS3H rev 1.1
CPU: Ryzen 5 8400F
RAM:Corsair VENGEANCE, 32GB(2x16GB), DDR5, AMD EXPO &
Intel XMP, 5200MT/s, CL40
GPU: Gigabyte Eagle RTX 4060

PSU: GIGABYTE UD 750W GOLD 80+

 

I installed the parts and booted the pc. Unfortunately, I realized that the board needs a BIOS update after installing the parts. As far as I knew, in order to flash the BIOS via Q-FLASH, the parts have to be removed and only the ATX and CPU power cables left in. Done and done, I removed the parts, and when I removed the CPU, I dropped it and bent a few pins on the socket, around 4 of them. I've attached a picture below. I made sure they weren't touching each other (so they wouldn't short) and flashed the bios. Unfortunately, after 6-7 minutes of flashing, the pc shut down. Normally, as far as I know, it should have gotten rebooted. I tried 5-6 more times, with other BIOS versions, and it behaved the same. I subsequently tried to install the parts again, and booted the pc, but it still doesn't post.

 

Unfortunately I have no debug led, so I tried everything I knew:

 

Remove CMOS battery - 10 minutes
Flash BIOS again
I tried to use only one ram stick with each slot

 

Now, I don't know if I corrupted the bios, if it doesn't post because of the pins, or if the update simply didn't work and I should try with a 7000 series CPU (which I don't have)

 

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2 hours ago, Krazyx said:

Hello! I am facing a problem and was hoping to get some advice from someone more knowledgeable. I have the following parts:

 

MOBO: Gigabyte A620M DS3H DS3H rev 1.1
CPU: Ryzen 5 8400F
RAM:Corsair VENGEANCE, 32GB(2x16GB), DDR5, AMD EXPO &
Intel XMP, 5200MT/s, CL40
GPU: Gigabyte Eagle RTX 4060

PSU: GIGABYTE UD 750W GOLD 80+

 

I installed the parts and booted the pc. Unfortunately, I realized that the board needs a BIOS update after installing the parts. As far as I knew, in order to flash the BIOS via Q-FLASH, the parts have to be removed and only the ATX and CPU power cables left in. Done and done, I removed the parts, and when I removed the CPU, I dropped it and bent a few pins on the socket, around 4 of them. I've attached a picture below. I made sure they weren't touching each other (so they wouldn't short) and flashed the bios. Unfortunately, after 6-7 minutes of flashing, the pc shut down. Normally, as far as I know, it should have gotten rebooted. I tried 5-6 more times, with other BIOS versions, and it behaved the same. I subsequently tried to install the parts again, and booted the pc, but it still doesn't post.

 

Unfortunately I have no debug led, so I tried everything I knew:

 

Remove CMOS battery - 10 minutes
Flash BIOS again
I tried to use only one ram stick with each slot

 

Now, I don't know if I corrupted the bios, if it doesn't post because of the pins, or if the update simply didn't work and I should try with a 7000 series CPU (which I don't have)

 

 

Yeah that's not good. You need to get that fixed or get another board.

8400F is support from  BIOS version F20 on MB rev. 1.0 and FA on MB rev 1.1.

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3 hours ago, Krazyx said:

As far as I knew, in order to flash the BIOS via Q-FLASH, the parts have to be removed and only the ATX and CPU power cables left in. Done and done, I removed the parts

 

Normally, as far as I know, it should have gotten rebooted.

?? how it's supposed to reboot if there are no other parts on it

 

But yea, that one area on your pic looks weird to me, it probably doesn't touch the pads on the cpu well ?

 

 

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18 hours ago, Poinkachu said:

?? how it's supposed to reboot if there are no other parts on it

 

But yea, that one area on your pic looks weird to me, it probably doesn't touch the pads on the cpu well ?

 

 

Sorry, I meant restart. Everytime I

succesfully flashed bios the pc turned off and back on again 

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23 hours ago, Krazyx said:

Sorry, I meant restart. Everytime I

succesfully flashed bios the pc turned off and back on again 

 

No, you can either have the everything installed (e.g. CPU, RAM, GPU), OR just ATX + CPU power connected.

Q-Flash Plus just omits whatever is in the socket, etc.

 

Those bent pins is very likely the root cause of your current issue.

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Could we get different angle on this? That looks bent:

 

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