Question Gigabyte board won’t post

[Mrt206]

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.

 

[beyondlogic]

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.

 

[Mrt206]

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.

That's where the RAM is. It's been running for the last 5 minutes. No restarting just CPU and PSU fans on and zero outputs

 

[beyondlogic]

That's where the RAM is. It's been running for the last 5 minutes. No restarting just CPU and PSU fans on and zero outputs

have you tried with 1 ram stick. slot 2 only

 

[Mrt206]

have you tried with 1 ram stick. slot 2 only

I have. I've tried both sticks on their own in all of the slots following this guidance from reddit where using slot B2 with a single stick resolved a similar issue

 

[beyondlogic]

I have. I've tried both sticks on their own in all of the slots following this guidance from reddit where using slot B2 with a single stick resolved a similar issue

are you using display port or hdmi ?

 

[Mrt206]

are you using display port or hdmi ?

HDMI

 

[beyondlogic]

HDMI

try a diffrent hdmi cable. make sure the pc case isnt interfering with the cable

 

[Mrt206]

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

 

[Mrt206]

try a diffrent hdmi cable. make sure the pc case isnt interfering with the cable

I don't have a spare pen drive to hand. I'll see if I can get one and try that

 

[beyondlogic]

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.

Question - B650M D3HP not booting with 8600G, black screen, no beeps...

Hi I purchased a B650M D3HP and a 8600G and I can't make them work. I got a black screen on the monitor, no signal. Also motherboard doesn't do any beep sounds. I tryed with different HDMI cable, different monitor, switching rams to other slots, using only 1 ram module in A2 channel as manual...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[beyondlogic]

I don't have a spare pen drive to hand. I'll see if I can get one and try that

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

 

[Mrt206]

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

 

[beyondlogic]

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.

 

[digitaldata77]

Did you get the PC to start? Some Gigabyte boards are tricky to update and setup. Hope all is well. My old Gigabyte board was a nightmare to get it to boot the first time (Gigabyte 990FXA UD5 Version 3.0) Still in use today.

 

[Mrt206]

did you rename the file of the bios GIGABYTE.BIN

also you would be surprised how flaky some software is.

It got to 3am and I realised I'd been arguing with the machine since noon so gave up for the night.

I did rename the file. I tried re-flashing it without the RAM installed but that didn't make any difference although it did take longer to do than the previous attempts at flashing so I'm more confident that I have the right BIOS on there. I should be getting a motherboard speaker delivered tomorrow so I'm hopeful that I'll have a bit more information from the board. Not that I can seem to find any documentation from Gigabyte on what any beeps might mean but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it

 

[Mrt206]

Did you get the PC to start? Some Gigabyte boards are tricky to update and setup. Hope all is well. My old Gigabyte board was a nightmare to get it to boot the first time (Gigabyte 990FXA UD5 Version 3.0) Still in use today.

I'm seeing lots of comments all over like this. The general theme seems to be once you get them working the boards are basically bulletproof. It's just getting them working that's the challenge

 

[beyondlogic]

Did you get the PC to start? Some Gigabyte boards are tricky to update and setup. Hope all is well. My old Gigabyte board was a nightmare to get it to boot the first time (Gigabyte 990FXA UD5 Version 3.0) Still in use today.

thats am3 + in general was a nightmare.

 

[beyondlogic]

It got to 3am and I realised I'd been arguing with the machine since noon so gave up for the night.

I did rename the file. I tried re-flashing it without the RAM installed but that didn't make any difference although it did take longer to do than the previous attempts at flashing so I'm more confident that I have the right BIOS on there. I should be getting a motherboard speaker delivered tomorrow so I'm hopeful that I'll have a bit more information from the board. Not that I can seem to find any documentation from Gigabyte on what any beeps might mean but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it

if you fail to get it working rma for a replacement of same board could just be a dodgy bios chip

 

[Mrt206]

if you fail to get it working rma for a replacement of same board could just be a dodgy bios chip

I found another pen drive so gave flashing it another go. I think there's definitely something dodgy going on. Pressed the Q Flash button and it started flashing but it finished 5 minutes ago and the motherboard hasn't switched off. The pen drive still has an activity light and the cpu fan is still running

 

[Mrt206]

I’ve raised a support ticket with gigabyte about the refusal to post and the unusual behaviour during flashing. Hopefully they’ll have some answers