ASUS Prime B450 Plus no RAM no error beeps

[nnnownow]

Breadboard ASUS Prime B450 Plus with Ryzen 7 2700 and wraith cooler correctly installed, eventually found dead RAM and D.O.A with supplier. The M/B has working beep speaker attached and has produced correct beeps with working memory, however with no memory installed there are no error beeps. Correct me if I am wrong, but this does not appear normal, is the M/B faulty or is there just no "missing RAM" error beep codes on this M/B?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Does the motherboard beep if you disconnect everything except the CPU and CPU cooler?

Is there a reason you are trying to run the system when you have no memory installed?

 

[nnnownow]

No beeps with only cpu, cooler, 8 pin and 24 pin attached...... What happened is I found faulty RAM in my sys build purchase, it was difficult to troubleshoot due to no error beeps, I found the issue when I borrowed other DDR4. Then I found that 1 stick of the build DDR4 worked but not the other. The working stick works in all slots correctly. During the troubleshooting process I found it odd that I got beeps for the sys functioning correctly (all hardware attached and working win10 build), but no beeps when in error (no Mem, GPU, K/B etc). The 2x8g 3200mhz DDR4 has since been RMA'd and I currently have no memory in the system, awaiting the replacement mem to arrive. If I fire up the complete build right now (minus the RAM) I still get no error beeps.

 

[nnnownow]

So the short answer is that I am trying to work out if this "no error beeps issue" is a fault with the M/B, and whether or not I need to RMA the M/B as well?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Without functional memory, depending on the board, it may not be ABLE to beep. Every board I've ever worked with that had a system speaker would beep without memory installed though.

Doesn't that board have an LED Q-code display?

Edit: Nope, I see it doesn't. I won't buy a board these days that doesn't have one. Makes troubleshooting so much easier.

 

[nnnownow]

Yea, I thought that myself, no Q-code is a right pain in the ass. The ASUS error codes seem to be not quite specific (when speaking of b450, x470 etc) and when I spoke to ASUS they appeared somewhat unsure as to what a motherboard even was (lol). When I had the faulty memory installed there where no error codes, but once I took the stick at fault out, the beeps indicated all POST correct ????? ... So now I am waiting for either ASUS or the supplier to confirm what the situation actually is?

 

[Darkbreeze]

This sounds more and more like a bad motherboard actually.

 

[nnnownow]

This sounds more and more like a bad motherboard actually.

Got RMA'd today.

Now to look for another semi decent asus b450 board

 

[Darkbreeze]

This is a better board than what you had if you're looking to buy new and are only looking at B450 ASUS boards.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/XQgzK8/asus-rog-strix-b450-f-gaming-atx-am4-motherboard-strix-b450-f-gaming


I'd seriously consider an X470 board though if you can afford to spend a little more than you did on that Plus. They are much higher quality and bring some features not found on the B450. B450 ain't bad, better than B350, but X470 takes it up a notch.

 

[nnnownow]

This is a better board than what you had if you're looking to buy new and are only looking at B450 ASUS boards.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/XQgzK8/asus-rog-strix-b450-f-gaming-atx-am4-motherboard-strix-b450-f-gaming


I'd seriously consider an X470 board though if you can afford to spend a little more than you did on that Plus. They are much higher quality and bring some features not found on the B450. B450 ain't bad, better than B350, but X470 takes it up a notch.

Thanks Darkbreeze, That is actually the one I am leaning towards given the experience with the prime b450 plus x470 is sort of creeping out of my price range at this stage on this one.

 

[Darkbreeze]

I understand totally. Sometimes what we want and what we can afford are at different ends of the ballpark.