Ah, goodamn, and neither does the Ryzen 3 pro.
Thanks for picking up on that.
Time to throw in a spare graphics card. I was doing that before in my early tests, will try with the new now.
Made a boo boo with hardware for my wife's computer - advise please.
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Ah, goodamn, and neither does the Ryzen 3 pro.
Thanks for picking up on that.
Time to throw in a spare graphics card. I was doing that before in my early tests, will try with the new now.
Ok, tried a 960 and a 1050Ti, neither worked (and yes, plugged in the additional power for the card).
Also, some old mobo were refusing to boot without a keyboard plugged in, back in the time...
MSI A320, Gigabyte A320, Ryzen 3, AMD970, two different sticks of RAM (each tried with each mobo/CPU.
Different cable, different monitor. My son is away at the moment so using his parts and bedroom for building it.
In the old days it would beep if you didn't have a keyboard in and put a message on the screen "No keyboard detected. Press F1 to continue" which is one of the funniest error messages ever.
Ryzen 3 could be a Raven Ridge, Summit Ridge, Pinnacle Ridge, Matisse, Picasso, or Renoir part...which may not all be supported by the same firmware.
Did you plug an hard-drive? If yes does it have an OS installed in?
I'm asking because maybe the hardware actually works but the BIOS is setup in a way that it skips all its start screens. Then if it doesn't have an OS or, in the opposite it has one but corrupted / failing to boot, that could explain the black-screen (while ventilators are running).
I'm asking because maybe the hardware actually works but the BIOS is setup in a way that it skips all its start screens. Then if it doesn't have an OS or, in the opposite it has one but corrupted / failing to boot, that could explain the black-screen (while ventilators are running).
Summit.
Nah, left the hard drive out, shouldn't be needed. I mean, if it was booting, should still hear the single beep when powering on. I should get a boot screen... i think.
It should pop up a message saying no drive/OS installed.
Yeah, I'm throwing desperate ideas over there. That's true that 90% of BIOS give you a boot feedback (for me it never biped, only a short BIOS screen message). But what I mean is that it's possible to disable all startup warnings in the BIOS also (big computer brands use this to put their logo instead).
Yeah, should be supported on almost all A320 boards.
What memory are you trying to use?
Did you plug in a speaker/buzzer?
Yeah, I also thought that modern mobo don't have an internal buzzer anymore (but I honestly never checked).
Not seen this yet, but make sure you are connected to the GPU and not the motherboards graphics outlets.
One is 2666 one is 2400. One is Radeon the other is another brand. Not at home so cant check right now.
Hah, done that before but not this time
Another thing to try is to use DVI initially, rather than HDMI (some older cards require this until the basic windows drivers have been installed). I shouldn't think your cards will need that though.
Make sure the Motherboards BIOS is reset to default this might be a jumper or a button, if it is a jumper make sure to place it into the correct position for boot as per your mobos instructions.
Plug in the hard drive, keyboard and mouse.
As a final option buy the cheapest compatible APU you can fit in the thing, get windows to boot and update the mobos BIOS, then put the CPU you want back in.
Make sure the Motherboards BIOS is reset to default this might be a jumper or a button, if it is a jumper make sure to place it into the correct position for boot as per your mobos instructions.
Plug in the hard drive, keyboard and mouse.
As a final option buy the cheapest compatible APU you can fit in the thing, get windows to boot and update the mobos BIOS, then put the CPU you want back in.