After being with Intel for many years, I decided to take the plunge this week and picked up a Ryzen 5800X and an MSI B550 board.
I put it all together yesterday, powered it up but was getting no display and 1 long then 2 short beeps. This apparently indicates a ram issue, but I know my ram is fine as I carried it across from my previous rig. I also checked the Crucial advisor and that confirms the ram is compatible with this board.
The board had come from Amazon warehouse as an open box return, so I began to suspect that I’d been sent a duff board. I’ve raised an RMA with Amazon and that board is going back, and I took delivery of a similar (brand new) model today from ebuyer.
Frustratingly though, I still have basically the same issue with the new board. The only difference is I’m not getting any beeps at all now, but still no POST/display.
It says on the boxes of both boards that they are Ryzen 5000 ready, which I take to mean that no BIOS update is needed. I don’t have a previous gen Ryzen CPU to do a BIOS update anyway as my previous build was Intel.
I tried disconnecting everything including all SATA devices, PCI cards and GPU. But still no joy.
I was really looking forward to this build, but it’s been a bit of a nightmare start. Any ideas what the issue could be here?
P.S. The mobos are MSI B550 Tomahawk and MSI B550 Gaming Plus. RAM is Crucial 3200MHz 2x16GB. I tried single sticks of ram in different slots as well, btw.
Thanks
Danny