Question Newly built pc won’t get past post screen

[NiccoSab]

I’ve built a pc before but it’s was before ddr5 and all the new greatness. Ended up selling the system when I shouldn’t have. Anyway, I know what I’m doing on the component side just really confused right now. Built the pc, went to post, saw the screen and was like “okay perfect” just for me to hit del to enter setup and nothing happened. Went to a couple forum posts to troubleshoot. tried no gpu, no storage, one stick of ram, the whole nine. Gpu installed or not the VGA light on my motherboard stays on. I’ve tried different usb ports for the keyboard and taking out the CMOS battery. The only thing i didn’t do was take out the cpu because if it posts it should be fine. (emphasis on the should) If anyone can help that would be great.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Hello,

Please list complete system specs.

Thanks

 

[NiccoSab]

Hello,

Please list complete system specs.

Thanks

cpu: ryzen 7 7800x3d
mobo: gigabyte B650 x ax
ram: g.skill flare x5 32gb ddr5 6000
gpu: gigabyte 2070 super
psu: nzxt 1000 gold

 

[RaidHobbit]

This could be many things including a naff component.

Check all cables are plugged in.
Check your motherboard schematic to see if you need to fill certain memory slots first.
Check against which motherboard revision your CPU was supported in case you have an older one the supplier hasn`t flashed.
Turn on, leave it blank for 5 mins to see if it does anything.

I assume you haven`t dropped it, or done any damage to anything. If so, and nothing else works, might be time to return it.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Could be the X3D CPU isn't supported by your BIOS version. May just need to update the BIOS.

 

[NiccoSab]

Could be the X3D CPU isn't supported by your BIOS version. May just need to update the BIOS.

How do I update the bios if I can’t get into the bios?

 

[NiccoSab]

This could be many things including a naff component.

Check all cables are plugged in.
Check your motherboard schematic to see if you need to fill certain memory slots first.
Check against which motherboard revision your CPU was supported in case you have an older one the supplier hasn`t flashed.
Turn on, leave it blank for 5 mins to see if it does anything.

I assume you haven`t dropped it, or done any damage to anything. If so, and nothing else works, might be time to return it.

I’ll try this. I checked all the power connections and everything looks good. Slots 2 and 4 for the memory which is what is printed on the board.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

How do I update the bios if I can’t get into the bios?

I checked and the motherboard supports the CPU since the first BIOS, F1. So, it must be something else.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B650-GAMING-X-AX-rev-10-11-12/support#support-cpu

 

[NiccoSab]

I checked and the motherboard supports the CPU since the first BIOS, F1. So, it must be something else.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B650-GAMING-X-AX-rev-10-11-12/support#support-cpu

It’s just so strange that even no matter what connection source, video card or mobo, the freeze still happens. The chances of a faulty board or cpu I know is low but not zero. I haven’t tried a different keyboard yet. The one I tried temporarily is some cheapo that came with a pre built a long time ago.

 

[NiccoSab]

Well…I would like to thank those that helped. I ended up switching out the keyboard and reset the cmos one more time and it booted right up. After I was still confused so I plugged in the old faulty keyboard and I was amazed. Half of the keys didn’t even register. I would’ve never thought this was possible but hey here we are lol

 

[Cellie]

You should have mentioned it froze in the first post.

Do you have any drive with an OS? Maybe an USB stick with Ubuntu? Another keyboard to try?

I'm wondering if it simply isn't detecting your keyboard thus won't respond to it, and because it has nowhere to boot to it just sits there, waiting, looking as if frozen.

Also, you should connect a speaker to the mobo if it has a header (likely has) to see if it's beeping any error code.