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Question Gigabyte board won’t post

Dec 25, 2024
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Hey everyone,

Been battling this all day digging through every forum link I can find and I’m just running into a wall. I built my mum a new PC for Christmas and it just won’t start. I press the power button, the PSU and CPU fans spin up, the power LED and case lights glow and the SATA devices spin up but nothing else happens. The monitor sits in standby and the keyboard and mouse act as if they’re totally disconnected, no lock lights or sensor glow.

I’ve been through the pinned list for won’t start. The CPU pins are fine, I’ve reseated every connection multiple times, I’ve tried booting with no RAM and every combination of single and dual stick. All I get every single time is the same lights are on but no one is home response

Specs:
  • Gigabyte B650M D3HP AX Motherboard
  • AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
  • 2x 16GB Crucial Pro DDR5 6000
  • 1TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe
  • MSI MAG A650BN
I’m using the onboard graphics, the previously mentioned SATA devices are a DVD multi drive and a HDD from her old PC moved over. I know for sure they work and I’ve tested it with and without them connected. This particular motherboard doesn’t come with any form of debugging output that I can find. I have a speaker on order but a spare small case speaker I had connected to the headers was totally silent during my testing. I’ve also used the built in Q Flash Plus feature to make sure that the BIOS is up to date, reset the CMOS, checked the voltage of the CMOS battery and flashed the BIOS again just to be sure. I can’t think of anything else to do. I’ve looked everywhere, done everything and currently my mum’s Christmas present is a paperweight. Really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas of what else I could do to get this thing to play ball.
 
Hey everyone,

Been battling this all day digging through every forum link I can find and I’m just running into a wall. I built my mum a new PC for Christmas and it just won’t start. I press the power button, the PSU and CPU fans spin up, the power LED and case lights glow and the SATA devices spin up but nothing else happens. The monitor sits in standby and the keyboard and mouse act as if they’re totally disconnected, no lock lights or sensor glow.

I’ve been through the pinned list for won’t start. The CPU pins are fine, I’ve reseated every connection multiple times, I’ve tried booting with no RAM and every combination of single and dual stick. All I get every single time is the same lights are on but no one is home response

Specs:
  • Gigabyte B650M D3HP AX Motherboard
  • AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
  • 2x 16GB Crucial Pro DDR5 6000
  • 1TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe
  • MSI MAG A650BN
I’m using the onboard graphics, the previously mentioned SATA devices are a DVD multi drive and a HDD from her old PC moved over. I know for sure they work and I’ve tested it with and without them connected. This particular motherboard doesn’t come with any form of debugging output that I can find. I have a speaker on order but a spare small case speaker I had connected to the headers was totally silent during my testing. I’ve also used the built in Q Flash Plus feature to make sure that the BIOS is up to date, reset the CMOS, checked the voltage of the CMOS battery and flashed the BIOS again just to be sure. I can’t think of anything else to do. I’ve looked everywhere, done everything and currently my mum’s Christmas present is a paperweight. Really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas of what else I could do to get this thing to play ball.


make sure ram is in slots 2 and 4 on the motherboard.

drr5 takes a minute to train memory it may spin up for a minute then shut off and restart as it trains memory.
 
try a diffrent hdmi cable. make sure the pc case isnt interfering with the cable
I've validated the cable on a different machine, the cable and monitor are working correctly. There's no obstruction between the case and the cable. To make trying all the possible RAM configurations easier I did that on a makeshift bench out of the case and it made no difference
 
I've validated the cable on a different machine, the cable and monitor are working correctly. There's no obstruction between the case and the cable. To make trying all the possible RAM configurations easier I did that on a makeshift bench out of the case and it made no difference

have you tried a diffrent pen drive ?. there was a post on here of similar issue.

 
sent link to his post as there maybe a step missing from the update that he did differently to yours.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHa46UoM0A
I found an older 2GB drive and tried it again. It hasn't resolved the problem but it does seem to have done something. The update took notably longer than the previous times I've tried it so I'm confident that I am on the most recent BIOS. Its weird how too new a drive is a barrier without any obvious signs of trouble
 
I found an older 2GB drive and tried it again. It hasn't resolved the problem but it does seem to have done something. The update took notably longer than the previous times I've tried it so I'm confident that I am on the most recent BIOS. Its weird how too new a drive is a barrier without any obvious signs of trouble

did you rename the file of the bios GIGABYTE.BIN

also you would be surprised how flaky some software is.
 
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