no post, CPU light then dram

[dhancardinal]

Hi,

I recently purchased a package deal from newegg:
-x470 Aorus Ultra Gaming motherboard with a
-AMD RYZEN 5 2600X and
-G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200.
Other components are a GTX 560TI and a Coolermaster 600W PSU.

The psu and gpu are from an old rig and should be working. When I turn on the computer I get a CPU red light which then switches to the DRAM light. Ive tried trying another psu, testing the ram one by one and have gone over the guide which is usually posted here for this kind of problem. My thoughts are maybe the gpu is too old? Or just a defective component and ask to return it.

 

[RBuczynski]

GPU should be fine.
I would, however, check if the motherboard need UEFI update due to 2nd gen of Ryzen.
It will also be nice to do, if You can check other motherboard or other cpu.
I'm having kinda same issue with i5 4460 and asrock h81. I've tried new psu (my old one is 8 yo, so it might be used already), new ddr3, integrated graphics, new motherboard, new cpu, new batteries (!) - none of it worked so far.

Try to test your cpu first, it most likely be fine (it is hard to fry cpu these days), however motherboard might be faulty, so I would be careful with putting there freshly new, and most likely expensive, cpu. I think it will be better to send motherboard back to retail, if you find that rest of the stuff is working than trying to put new cpu.