This holiday I decided to upgrade my outdated AM3+ system to AM4. After researching I bought the parts that needed changing for the upgrade. New motherboard, RAM and CPU while keeping the original GPU, PSU and SSDs which have served me well so far.
This is the setup:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU with provided cooler
Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite V2 (rev 1.1)
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x16GB 3600Mhz RAM
Corsair 1000w PSU
XFX RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro 6GB GPU
On boot the fans spin and the GPU light is on but there's no display output. No motherboard beeps either.
Things I have tried:
double checking cable connections
clearing the CMOS
trying a single ram stick in all different slots
moving the GPU to a PCIE3 slot
trying different display ports on the GPU
What am I missing?
I noticed that the motherboard supports DDR4 at 3600Mhz but only OC. Could this be the issue? Should the RAM be at a slower speed or would it still work but run slower than the spec'ed RAM speed?
I have build half a dozen PCs in my lifetime and never came across such an issue. It feels like in all the years of evolution of pc hardware, zero effort has been put into improving UX troubleshooting.
Anyway, rant over and never again will I burn my holidays with a new build. : /
This is the setup:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU with provided cooler
Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite V2 (rev 1.1)
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x16GB 3600Mhz RAM
Corsair 1000w PSU
XFX RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro 6GB GPU
On boot the fans spin and the GPU light is on but there's no display output. No motherboard beeps either.
Things I have tried:
double checking cable connections
clearing the CMOS
trying a single ram stick in all different slots
moving the GPU to a PCIE3 slot
trying different display ports on the GPU
What am I missing?
I noticed that the motherboard supports DDR4 at 3600Mhz but only OC. Could this be the issue? Should the RAM be at a slower speed or would it still work but run slower than the spec'ed RAM speed?
I have build half a dozen PCs in my lifetime and never came across such an issue. It feels like in all the years of evolution of pc hardware, zero effort has been put into improving UX troubleshooting.
Anyway, rant over and never again will I burn my holidays with a new build. : /