Hi all,
Need some help here. I just built another SFF PC last week using the following parts:
- Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI
- Ryzen 5 3400G (initially started with a 2200G because I thought I needed to update the BIOS, but found out the installed BIOS was high enough to support 3000 series CPUs)
- HP EX920 512 GB m.2 NVME SSD
- Corsair Vengeange Pro RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200 DDR4 memory
- In-Win Chopin Case with 150W PSU
- Noctua NH-L9i with mounting kit for AM4
When I originally started built the PC with the 2200G, it worked fine. And when I saw that the board shipped with BIOS version F41 (compatible with 3000 series CPU's), I went ahead and popped in the 3400G. And it was working just fine for a week until today... I was going to install a VM on my computer, but before I could get into the BIOS to enable virtualization, I kept having to restart Win 10 (not holding the power button down to hard reboot). I kept missing the BIOS screen as by the time my keyboard would power up (Durgod Hades 68), the BIOS screens had already passed and already into Windows login. So when I went to restart the PC via the login screen, it never made it to BIOS again... The symptoms are:
- It won't POST
- My cooler fan spins up
- The LED on my ram will light up
- My RGB keyboard doesn't get any power (no LED's)
- No video output from mobo to monitor
I've tried hard rebooting, reconnecting all the connectors on the board, try both of my ram sticks individually in each slot, and none worked. I tried resetting CMOS by jumping and removing battery connector from the board, but that didn't change anything. I don't see any LED's on this case, so I can't what kind of problem the mobo is having issues with...
The only thing I can think of is that BIOS is corrupt or maybe it defaulted to an older BIOS version that doesn't support 3000 series chips. I don't think this board has the Dual BIOS feature as it only specs out 1 x 128 Mbit flash for BIOS (I believe Dual BIOS boards would have 2 chips).
I'm actually in Taiwan right now for business, and there are a bunch shops that I hope can help troubleshoot... I might try to take it to them tomorrow and see if they can test my components to help me isolate the problem.
Other than that, anybody have any other ideas I can try?
