Question How to revive a "dead" Ryzen 5 3600 ?

[Leighiteamo52k]

Hello is there still possible to revive my CPU? I have done some troubleshootings like updating bios.

The problem is if I use this CPU my GPU fans wont work and no displays also it beeps my Asrock B450 steel legend to 5 beeps. I tried touchiny the cpu while booting but it just heat a little.

 

[Darkbreeze]

What makes you believe it is the CPU? Have you tried a different CPU? 5 beeps on an ASRock board can be either related to the CPU or related to the graphics card. Have you tried a different graphics card? Have you tried the graphics card in a different PCIe slot?

Have you removed the CPU and checked for bent pins or to see if the fans on the graphics card work with the CPU removed? Have you tried resetting the CMOS?

BIOS Hard Reset procedure

Power off the unit, switch the PSU off and unplug the PSU cord from either the wall or the power supply.

Remove the motherboard CMOS battery for about three to five minutes. In some cases it may be necessary to remove the graphics card to access the CMOS battery.

During that five minutes while the CMOS battery is out of the motherboard, press the power button on the case, continuously, for 15-30 seconds, in order to deplete any residual charge that might be present in the CMOS circuit. After the five minutes is up, reinstall the CMOS battery making sure to insert it with the correct side up just as it came out.

If you had to remove the graphics card you can now reinstall it, but remember to reconnect your power cables if there were any attached to it as well as your display cable.

Now, plug the power supply cable back in, switch the PSU back on and power up the system. It should display the POST screen and the options to enter CMOS/BIOS setup. Enter the bios setup program and reconfigure the boot settings for either the Windows boot manager or for legacy systems, the drive your OS is installed on if necessary.

Save settings and exit. If the system will POST and boot then you can move forward from there including going back into the bios and configuring any other custom settings you may need to configure such as Memory XMP, A-XMP or D.O.C.P profile settings, custom fan profile settings or other specific settings you may have previously had configured that were wiped out by resetting the CMOS.

In some cases it may be necessary when you go into the BIOS after a reset, to load the Optimal default or Default values and then save settings, to actually get the hardware tables to reset in the boot manager.

It is probably also worth mentioning that for anything that might require an attempt to DO a hard reset in the first place, IF the problem is related to a lack of video signal, it is a GOOD IDEA to try a different type of display as many systems will not work properly for some reason with displayport configurations. It is worth trying HDMI if you are having no display or lack of visual ability to enter the BIOS, or no signal messages.

Trying a different monitor as well, if possible, is also a good idea if there is a lack of display. It happens.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Very unusual for a cpu to fail. Not saying it doesn’t happen but you may need to flash the bios or try another board.

 

[Darkbreeze]

That is very true, but I will say this. I have seen more Ryzen 3600 CPUs die early deaths than any other CPU model I can remember since, well, ever. But that still means a fairly small percentage of those in the wild.

 

[Leighiteamo52k]

Thank you for all of the recommendations. I have tried those. The previous owner says hes pc got broke by her cat peeing on thr system unit and after it brokes he doesnt use it for 6months and now giving it to me to try. I have r5 2600 and it works well.

 

[Paperdoc]

A thought for other posters. This OP MAY be using the term "CPU" to mean the entire computer main system "box" and all its innards, rather than meaning specifically the Central Processor Unit chip. In that case the damage from a previous cat problem could be anywhere in that box.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Not sure about that since they say "touching the CPU while booting but just a little heat" which I would assume means they do know what "CPU" means in this case, but I know what you mean because we see a lot of people that do exactly what you are suggesting. But what I AM curious about is how they are "touching the CPU while booting" if it has a cooler installed? But if they have a Ryzen 2600 and it works fine with that one installed, then it pretty much HAS to be the CPU.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I’d say if they’ve got a working 2600, use that to update the bios of the board then. If the 3600 begins working then you know the answer as to if the cpu was working or not.

 

[Leighiteamo52k]

So yes, I have updated my bios to P4.60 and I just got my ryzen 5 2600 traded to ryzen 5 5600 and its working fine. I do still have this Ryzen 5 3600 that is not working tho.

For what I mean of touching the CPU is, I remove the cooler while troubleshooting and checks the CPU heats so for the Ryzen 2600 without cooler when booting, I coudnt really touch it because it heat much but for the Ryzen 3600 it heats but not much.


I dont know what to do with this now, I even didnt see a bent needle

 

[DSzymborski]

If it is the CPU -- and it could be very well be considering that liquid was in the PC -- then there's no fixing it. That you feel some heat doesn't mean anything.

 

[Darkbreeze]

And if both a 2600 and a 5600 both work on the same board, but the 3600 does not, then it is certainly not related to a BIOS update and can only be a problem with a faulty CPU.