For reasons not worth getting into, I have both the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max and ASUS TUF x570 (no wifi) motherboards as well as an R7 2700x and an R7 3700x. All of these components are new. I also have 16gb of DDR4 G.SKILL Ripjaws ram. I've tried all 4 combinations of CPU/Motherboard yet none of them work. I am sure the PSU and GPU I am testing with are working properly. I have no way to test whether the ram or CPUs independently work (you'd think 2 motherboards would be enough).
I have checked the power connectors multiple times and even had someone else do them for me. I can tell that power is getting to the ASUS board as the onboard RGBs start to change colors the moment the PSU is turned on. The MSI board has no way for me to check this. On both boards, I notice that the onboard status LEDs for debugging never light up, no fans spin and there is no post sound. I have even tried removing certain components when testing to see if I could force the CPU or DRAM lights to come on. Does anybody have any other ideas of where I could look?
Update: It just started working and I don't know what changed. This thread does have a good amount of troubleshooting methods for anyone curious.
I have checked the power connectors multiple times and even had someone else do them for me. I can tell that power is getting to the ASUS board as the onboard RGBs start to change colors the moment the PSU is turned on. The MSI board has no way for me to check this. On both boards, I notice that the onboard status LEDs for debugging never light up, no fans spin and there is no post sound. I have even tried removing certain components when testing to see if I could force the CPU or DRAM lights to come on. Does anybody have any other ideas of where I could look?
Update: It just started working and I don't know what changed. This thread does have a good amount of troubleshooting methods for anyone curious.
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