Motherboard won't let me into bios.

[Retro420]

Hello.

I have recently upgraded to Ryzen 5 1600/GTX 1060 6 GB, and am very happy with it.

The problem is I can't get my old system working. I thought I would sell it on, get a few quid for me and someone gets a budget setup.

I put it all together and it turns on fine, shows the motherboard gigabyte logo and that's all she wrote!
I can't access any of the menus from the loading screen - bios, boot menu etc.

Once the logo goes I get a blinking underscore in the top right corner with a white mouse icon in the middle of a black screen, that lasts for literally a second then the cursor disappears and the mouse icon skips to the right a little bit and that's it. It's frozen, can't move the mouse or anything.

I have tried different ram sticks in different configurations in different slots, I have tried clearing the CMOS, tried the CMOS jumper, tried different pcie slots, took it all apart and back together, tried the 1 and 6 pin on bios chip and nothing is working. I can't get the dual bios to kick in either.

The components:

AMD FX 6300
Gigabyte ga970a ds3p motherboard
Radeon HD 7770 1gb GPU
24gb ddr3 1600 ram
500w PSU
I am really stuck, don't know what else to do now 🙁

Any help would be great.
Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

Make and model of your PSU? How old is it? How are you on 24GB's of ram? Are they all identical sticks of ram? Are you on the latest BIOS revision? Removing the CMOS battery for at least 15 minutes before replacing it?

 

[Retro420]

The PSU is Novatech 500w non modular, brand new. I used it for maybe 2 weeks before upgrading to ryzen and it is absolutely fine. Ram is not identical, two different sets of the same brand, but they worked properly at the correct timings and speed for nearly 2 years. I have tried the ram sticks every way I can anyway. I have no idea of the bios revision as I can't access the bios. I have tried the CMOS for 5 mins, 15 mins, and overnight and it hasn't helped.

 

[scout_03]

did you have another bios battery around and see if you could use another gpu also use only 1 ram stick for the test , in the same time recheck all power cable on board and parts in system .

 

[Retro420]

Didn't try a different CMOS battery, will give it a go in a minute. I don't think anything is wrong with the GPU, fans spinning fine and displaying the gigabyte logo no problem. I have tried every combination of my 4 ram sticks in different slots, including trying each one on its own, doesn't change anything

 

[scout_03]

you have any hdd plug in the system try another sata cable to it from motherboard .

 

[Retro420]

Sorry forgot to say there is no hdd connected. I'm not trying to install an is, just get to bios and show that everything is working. I did try with a bootable USB after trying everything else, but I still get the same sequence with the frozen black screen.

 

[scout_03]

plug in the hdd even if there is any os on .

 

[Retro420]

Ok, I will give it a try in a sec and post what happens