After saving some money over the last year or so I decided it was time to upgrade from my old i5 4480.
My new parts are:
Ryzen 5 5600x
32 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX (4 x 8GB @ 3000MHz)
ASRock B550M Steel Legend
Western Digital WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD 500GB
I am also reusing a RTX 2070 super which was my previous upgrade, my PSU which is an EVGA supernova 550 GS, 1 x 1TB SanDisk SSD, 1 x 1TB HDD, 1 x 120GB SanDisk (old boot drive). Of the various pieces of storage I have, only the NVMe drive is connected at the moment.
So far I have checked all 4 sticks of RAM, none of which seemed to be the problem. This is supported by the post status checker lights on the motherboard. This consists of 4 different lights labelled BOOT, VGA, DRAM, CPU. According to the manual these show that a part seems to be dysfunctional when they emit a consistent red light. In my case the CPU and DRAM lights are not lit, indicating their functionality, whereas the VGA and BOOT lights are initially unlit then turn on as the fans spin down to a slower idle speed.
So far my troubleshooting has been rather sporadic as due to my inexperience I am mostly doing it based off information on the internet. Other than checking the RAM and clearing the CMOS by reseating the CMOS battery.
While I use computers a lot and enjoy a bit of programming, however other than changing my GPU I was much younger the last time I worked with any hardware. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here’s a picture of the post indicators on the motherboard. While it’s not very clear, the DRAM light is not on it’s just got light bleeding over from the VGA light.
Well yeah kinda depends when the said board got shiped out.
The boards that are shipped out today likely have an updated bios already.
But in regards to the retailers you never know how long the said board has been in stock.
So if it actually is one of the first batches, than you could be unlucky.
Because B550 was way before the 5000 series cpu´s eventually came to the market.
Unfortunately not, bought off of Amazon. If worst comes to worst I’ll just have to go to a shop, though I’d like to exhaust the self troubleshooting steps first.
I’ve now tried all four sticks of ram in all 4 slots and cleared the CMOS, but the post issue remains unchanged. I don’t suppose there’s any other possible fixes, because at this point I’m looking at a potentially pricey repair shop check up. Either way it’s 4 in the morning for me so I’m gonna let it rest for now, thanks to both of you for the help!
Yeah well normally a good willing computer repair shop,
should be doing a bios flash for you for just a few bucks.
I mean it´s really nothing more then just drop in a Ryzen 3000 series cpu,
boot it, and flash the bios from within the uefi.
Nothing more nothing less, probablly a 5 minut job.
With certain boards you could do this yourself without needing a supported cpu installed.
Like certain Asus, Gigabyte and Msi 500 series boards have such a bios flashback like feature.
But i suppose that Asrock does not has the said feature included on that particular B550M Steel legend board which is of course a pity.