Hello, friends. I just put together a new PC, and it's not doing much of anything. This is not the first PC I've put together (although the previous ones were Intel rather than AMD - I should never have gotten experimental), but I seem to have failed somewhere important. I followed the steps recommended before posting, and have looked in many other 'no POST' threads as well.
My system:
ASUS Radeon RX 580 4GB Dual
WD Blue 3D 500GB 2.5" SSD
Uppgraderingspaket - Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Prosessor
ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING, Socket-AM4
Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 16GB (2x8)
Fractal Design Core 2500 Midi Tower
Corsair CX550M, 550W PSU
WD Desktop Blue 2TB 3.5"
I don't have a motherboard speaker, but the "DRAM error" LED is glowing, and the computer won't boot. I have tried both RAM sticks in every slot, to no avail, and I have attempted to breadboard the whole thing by connecting only the PSU, PCU and one RAM stick in the RAM slot indicated by the owner's manual. I still get the same error, no matter what I do.
Additionally, although I don't know if it matters - with the computer on and refusing to boot, I am able to connect USB devices to the PC and get a brief blip of acknowledgement from the device, but I can't, say, charge anything via the USB slots.
Personally, I suspect the motherboard broke during installation, as the accursed thing is designed like a freaking spaceship, incredibly heavy, and so spiky I had to cut it out of the antistatic bag. I don't see any bent pins, but I ended up touching it in a lot of places to avoid having it break under its own weight.
Anyway, my plan is this:
1. Buy another identical set of RAM sticks (which won't be in stock for another two weeks, naturally...) and try the motherboard with those. Worst case scenario, I end up with twice as much RAM in the end.
2. Pull out CPU and check for broken pins. There were none when I inserted it, but I had some difficulty wrangling that strange, screw-less attachment thingy with the lever, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if something broke at that stage. Either way, the cooling paste is stuck on rock-hard, so the less I need to mess with that, the better.
3. If no broken pins are found, try to return motherboard to supplier and hope for the best.
What do you think? Is this a reasonable plan of action? Feel free to laugh at my incompetence, I clearly had no idea what I was getting into.
My system:
ASUS Radeon RX 580 4GB Dual
WD Blue 3D 500GB 2.5" SSD
Uppgraderingspaket - Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Prosessor
ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING, Socket-AM4
Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 16GB (2x8)
Fractal Design Core 2500 Midi Tower
Corsair CX550M, 550W PSU
WD Desktop Blue 2TB 3.5"
I don't have a motherboard speaker, but the "DRAM error" LED is glowing, and the computer won't boot. I have tried both RAM sticks in every slot, to no avail, and I have attempted to breadboard the whole thing by connecting only the PSU, PCU and one RAM stick in the RAM slot indicated by the owner's manual. I still get the same error, no matter what I do.
Additionally, although I don't know if it matters - with the computer on and refusing to boot, I am able to connect USB devices to the PC and get a brief blip of acknowledgement from the device, but I can't, say, charge anything via the USB slots.
Personally, I suspect the motherboard broke during installation, as the accursed thing is designed like a freaking spaceship, incredibly heavy, and so spiky I had to cut it out of the antistatic bag. I don't see any bent pins, but I ended up touching it in a lot of places to avoid having it break under its own weight.
Anyway, my plan is this:
1. Buy another identical set of RAM sticks (which won't be in stock for another two weeks, naturally...) and try the motherboard with those. Worst case scenario, I end up with twice as much RAM in the end.
2. Pull out CPU and check for broken pins. There were none when I inserted it, but I had some difficulty wrangling that strange, screw-less attachment thingy with the lever, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if something broke at that stage. Either way, the cooling paste is stuck on rock-hard, so the less I need to mess with that, the better.
3. If no broken pins are found, try to return motherboard to supplier and hope for the best.
What do you think? Is this a reasonable plan of action? Feel free to laugh at my incompetence, I clearly had no idea what I was getting into.