No power detected, but no warning sounds or signals.
No power detected, but no warning sounds or signals.
You disassembled the motherboard to fix an old PC, but now it won’t boot. Lights are on and fans spin, yet the exhaust fan and GPU aren’t working. Need advice on troubleshooting.
Reset the CMOS and attempt to start with a single RAM stick. If this fails, share your specifications.
Switched RAM sticks, now a yellow LED lights up briefly with a brief CPU indicator. It seems my CPU might be damaged, as that’s the only component that came out of the broken machine. The current specs are a Ryzen 5900X, ASUS B550 Strix, 8GB of G-Skill RAM, a 750W ROG power supply, and a 3080 TI graphics card. With the damaged PC, I thought the RAM was the culprit due to error codes, but now I’m unsure.
It does sound like a decent possibility that the CPU is to blame if it's the only thing you carried over, but you can't be 100% sure if you don't have a spare one to test if the current system works without it. There's a chance that the bios on your new board pre-dates Ryzen 5000 support. I'm 99% sure a strix will have a bios flashback button, so you could try flashing a recent version.
This seems unusual. I swapped the CPU from my second PC (5800x) back into its original slot, but now the RAM/CPU indicator isn’t working and I can’t post.