I fear you may be right Sir. I just tried a brand new CPU, perfectly installed, held my breath and pressed the power button, and it has exactly the same problem. Red light comes on the mobo power button, but no boot at all. I just don't know what I coould have damaged except perhaps the socket somehow. It's never happened before.
It's a 5800x (I am so annoyed I have been forced tp upgrade to this but it was the only Zen3 in stock in Europe at MSRP. The 5600x and 5900x are either out of stock or scalped to hell and make the 5800x actually look reaosnable lol) and the BIOS I updated to was pretty recent. Considering I had the same probem with the 3300x which was working perfectly until I messed with the heatsink, it's not looking good. Butyou are right my good man, I have nothing to lose my trying a reflash other than time.
Good idea, I will try it outside of the case tomorrow morning. No idea if working with the system made it worse, but the moment I checked the heatsink was when everything stopped when I initially powered the system on again, so I think by that point it was game over and the damage was done.
How long do you think it will take? I'll be shipping from cental Europe to the MSI service center Poland so luckily no UK border stuff to worry about.
If it doesn't sort out the problem I may be the forums first case of Seppuku.
Too late for me mate im afraid but hopefully someone else will find your useful information a big help in future!
Some retailers, like OCUK, will deal with the warranty in the first year but all they will do is send to the manufacturer for repair on your behalf so it's the same as dealing with the manufacturer directly. Others will just replace it if they have stock.Well guys, my usual persistence in no taking **** has paid off.
I went on the retailer chat and reminded them of their legal obligations and asked them to sort me out a replacement board asap, I even linked them to the available stock. As a result of this they are sending a replacement to me immediately at no extra charge and have sent me a return label for the original defective board. No long or crappy MSI RMA service shall be used.
ZOMG it's booted into windows yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
There is nothing as stressful as doing a new build with high value components, my heart was in my mouth when I first booted it all up outside of the case. Happily I saw the boot screen, so put it all together and now it's chugging away. Need to set the BOS and check temps and, well... just see how some games run.
Heh thanks mate, you are right the first boot is a heart in mouth moment, but it's all running very sweet now, game tested for hours. I had another scare where I updated the BIOS and the system hung (******* MSI) and I couldn't get it to restart so thought t was bricked... but luckily the next day I managed to get it to reset.
I thought the same until I bought a PS5 gamepad and then hooked up the PC to the TV to play Witcher 2 and RDR2 etc at 4k6. Holy crap... it's like having a PS8. Try it and see.
