Recent content by odetoboy

right i have an update. i finally got my motherboard today - because its a GIGABYTE B550, i have to flash the bios in order for it and the CPU to recognise each other exist, but the flash is not working properly. i press the button and the USB stick lights up for a solid 3 seconds and then...

well i dont have a clue now! maybe its a repeat of history lol!

my conclusion: im going to buy a new motherboard off amazon and receive it tomorrow. if it still doesnt work then its probably my PSU so ill return my motherboard and buy a PSU instead. but the fact that the same thing happened to @NanoSuit3 as me and there is still some power going through just...

unfortunately my motherboard speaker doesnt beep when i turn my pc on, so i still have no idea what the hell it could be. this is SO annoying!

thank you anyway, hopefully i can diagnose the problem with the mobo speaker later. if not then oof indeed but its probably the motherboard. i feel like i wasnt careful enough with it

i sure as hell hope not! i only bough the thing last January… :(

i did that, it didnt change anything :/ however i obviously plan to do it again tomorrow with a speaker. i thought my mobo had LEDs which is what i was looking for originally!

just to update, i tried with the DEL spam. didnt work, tried HDMI in both my GPU and motherboard ports. ive just remembered, i did a CMOS reset, but when i bought the motherboard i had to flash its BIOS in order to use my newer CPU... will the CMOS procedure have undone this? :confused:

would this be possible even without the... post-POST screen? (lol) with a reboot every few sec? ill give it a try in a sec. and no, unfortunately not. if i was still in my flat it'd be a different story, but what do you think the likelihood of the PSU being at fault is? thanks for your help.

thanks, but i have done all those unfortunately. im starting to suspect its the PSU considering its 7 years old. ive ordered one of those motherboard speakers and it should be arriving tomorrow so hopefully it will tell me whats up! edit - my boot drive is an M.2 - is this a problem?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X CPU cooler: Stock Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 GAMING X V2 ATX Ram: HyperX Fury DDR4 SSD/HDD: 2x WD BLUE HDD, 1x SanDisk 120GB SSD, 1x Samsung 970 EVO Plus (boot drive) GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2060 6GB PSU: EVGA GOLD 850G2 (bought brand new in 2016, lol) Chassis: Fractal Meshify 2...