Question Gigabyte B450 CPU and GPU upgrade

[j4yman]

Hi all,

So my brother wanted to upgrade his CPU and GPU.

His specs were -

Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
MSI RX 570 8GB

He has upgraded to the following -

Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
ASUS RX 6600 Dual Radeon 8GB

We initially tried fitting the new CPU and GPU and the DRAM light came on and no output to the monitor. We put the old CPU back in and the PC booted okay. I put the parts into PC Part Picker and it said the BIOS need to be on BIOS F61 to support the new CPU. We upgraded the BIOS version to F61 via Gigabyte App Center. We then put the new CPU and same issue as before. We tried the old CPU and that doesn’t work either now. The DRAM light is on and no output to the monitor.

Anybody have any ideas please?

Thanks in advance.

 

[logainofhades]

I would start with doing a CMOS reset, to clear out all bios settings.

 

[j4yman]

I would start with doing a CMOS reset, to clear out all bios settings.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I suggested that and my brother did it. Assuming he did it correctly it didn’t make any difference.

 

[Nyara]

I had this same issue once and it was a headache to find the cause since it ended up being three unrelated motives all lining up against me. So consider multi-factors when dealing with this.

1. Check if any part of the motherboard (outside the backplate) is touching any part of the motherboard, electricity getting transmitted through contact with chassis' metal will first show up as RAM problem, as RAM is the most sensitive to those alterations. AMD CPUs are also extremely sensitive to this. If there is any contact with the chassis, then put paper or plastic tape in the chassis where it happens, or use violence and cut down that part of the chassis.

2. It can also be the Thermal Paste of the CPU overflowed for putting too much or near the borders (it will expand on first use), this will produce the same issue as above. Use alcohol to clean it out and try again.

3. Older RAM and a few random new RAM at times have weakened connection pins which makes the RAM extremely nitpicky with how well it should be installed for proper detection. Just unplug and plug back the RAM sightly different and try a couple times.

4. Maybe one of your RAM modules is giving up on life and your new motherboard is more nitpicky with the tolerance it can have toward a faulty RAM. Try starting up using only one RAM plugged at a time and swap around.

5. Maybe you <Mod Edit> the BIOS when updating it if there was any interruption or weird thing going, also I always recommend updating to last version of BIOS since middle-steps randomly bugs or dies at times. If it happened, you killed the motherboard. You would need to send it to a technical service so they can use their own setup on it to test it out. At times some motherboards on a failed BIOS update will revert to a factory older BIOS which might be incompatible with both your CPUs, too.

6. Maybe your PSU to CPU power cable sightly unplugged with the manipulation. Replug it firm from both ends if can.

If you got yourself to the 5th situation, at least AM4 motherboards are pretty cheap and both your videocard and CPU should work no issue with even a basic $50 one, so just buy depending on the connectivity you want it to have.