Troubleshooting help. B450 steel legend not posting.

MissChief

MissChief

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Building up a PC for a friend of a friend for their 11 year old for Christmas and having some troubles.

I’m no beginner but this one has me scratching my head.

Asrock B450 steel legend bought here on MM, pretty sure it works OK. When I connect everything up and hit the power switch on the PSU I get RGB like a Christmas tree and some fans start lazily spinning. The power button, it does nothing other than make a click somewhere within the PC.

As it’s a 5000 series chip I assumed it might be a BIOS issue. I happen to have a 3600 so swapped that in. Same thing. Swapped the 32 GB of crucial RAM out for a Teamgroup 16 GB kit. Still nothing. No beeps, no lights that I can see. Pretty sure the graphics card works (or isn’t the issue) as I swapped in a very old GTX780 I have lying around and the same thing, disco lights but no post or beeps. Currently swapping out the motherboard for a crappy old A320 board I have too. Anyone else have any other thoughts or ideas? I don’t have a spare PSU to test though.
 
Hmm, swapped the A320 in and it boots OK, at least to the BIOS screen. Might be motherboard then. Phooey. (My current favourite word of the moment)
 
WARburton said:
try the board cpu and one stick of ram on a desk and see if it boots.
dont fit a cooler incase that's the problem, its ok to power cycle like this

and somthing ive done before check the motherboard standoff's lol
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Checked all these already, nothing where they shouldn’t be. Ran the A320 with no cooler and got the gigabyte splash screen. Have also tried two different ram kits, one of which I know works as it came out of my working machine when I upgraded on a whim from 3200MHz to 3600MHz.

I have a wanted thread up looking for a B4/550 board. Annoying this is!
 
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