Flashing bios b450 tomahawk max

[kuyt1156b02db]

Hi, so my randomly stopped booting today and I tried a lot of different stuff including flashing my bios. I started flashing it and the red led light started flashing as it should for about 5 minutes or so then it just changed to a solid red light and stayed like that for over 20 minutes before I shut it off. The flash drive is formatted for fat32 as it would flash 3 times then stop prior. I’m not sure what my next step is if anyone can help thanks

 

[zerijelly]

How long has the mainboard been able to boot up normally before the symptom occurs?
Make sure connect the USB pen drive on the Flash BIOS port and follow the procedures in the video to update BIOS to the latest 7C02v3K2:

 

[citay]

Hi, so my randomly stopped booting today and I tried a lot of different stuff including flashing my bios.

Can you list all your hardware in detail including PSU? When it didn't want to boot, what did the EZ Debug LEDs show, above the 24-pin ATX header? They are always what you need to check first, as they can give you a first hint where the board got hung up. Right now, if the flashing was unsuccessful, the BIOS might be corrupt until you flashed it properly again, so now it might only show the CPU LED. Right when you have problems booting, you should post here so we can tell you how to best troubleshoot it.

 

[kuyt1156b02db]

Can you list all your hardware in detail including PSU? When it didn't want to boot, what did the EZ Debug LEDs show, above the 24-pin ATX header? They are always what you need to check first, as they can give you a first hint where the board got hung up. Right now, if the flashing was unsuccessful, the BIOS might be corrupt until you flashed it properly again, so now it might only show the CPU LED. Right when you have problems booting, you should post here so we can tell you how to best troubleshoot it.

Okay so I got it flashed after all but I’m back to the same issue I started with. The original issue the pc would turn on but nothing would display and the ram debug light was on. I tried cmos flashing different ram sticks at one point the rgb lights on the ram worked but then the cpu debug light came on. I’m stuck now pc won’t boot and detect any of the 4 ram sticks I’ve tried each one individually and they were all working prior.

 

[kuyt1156b02db]

Can you list all your hardware in detail including

How long has the mainboard been able to boot up normally before the symptom occurs?
Make sure connect the USB pen drive on the Flash BIOS port and follow the procedures in the video to update BIOS to the latest 7C02v3K2:

I got it flashed but board doesn’t boot at all ram debug light is on

 

[kuyt1156b02db]

Can you list all your hardware in detail including PSU? When it didn't want to boot, what did the EZ Debug LEDs show, above the 24-pin ATX header? They are always what you need to check first, as they can give you a first hint where the board got hung up. Right now, if the flashing was unsuccessful, the BIOS might be corrupt until you flashed it properly again, so now it might only show the CPU LED. Right when you have problems booting, you should post here so we can tell you how to best troubleshoot it.

Sorry I forgot to list specs
Ryzen 5 3600
rtx 3060ti
Enigma 750w g2
corsair 2x16gb ddr4 3600

 

[citay]

I’m stuck now pc won’t boot and detect any of the 4 ram sticks I’ve tried each one individually and they were all working prior.

Meaning, you have some kind of deterioration in the system, when it all worked fine before. So it's not about the BIOS version.

There's two main routes of troubleshooting now: Ruling out things by leaving them out, and ruling out things by using a different one of them. What you can first try, take out the GPU, take out / disconnect the SSD, leave only one RAM module in slot A2. Do you still get the DRAM LED? Then those parts you took out are ruled out, they have nothing to do with it. Since you also tried four different RAM modules (you could try them all in a different PC to be sure), it should now be between the PSU, board, or CPU. So then you'd try with a different PSU next (because it's usually easier and less hassle to try with a different CPU first). The other PSU has to be known good, not too old, and of decent quality.

If it's the same with a different PSU, then it's only between the CPU (which houses the memory controller, BTW) and the board. So now you'd have to test a different AM4 CPU in that board, or your CPU in a different AM4 board, to see which one of them it is. I will say this, there have also been rare cases where people on AM4 have just swapped their CPU cooler and suddenly got the CPU LED afterwards, which would suggest some kind of contact problem between CPU and socket perhaps, something like that. But you got the DRAM LED and you haven't said anything about a physical change to the system, so it might have some actual defect that has developed.

 

[kuyt1156b02db]

Meaning, you have some kind of deterioration in the system, when it all worked fine before. So it's not about the BIOS version.

There's two main routes of troubleshooting now: Ruling out things by leaving them out, and ruling out things by using a different one of them. What you can first try, take out the GPU, take out / disconnect the SSD, leave only one RAM module in slot A2. Do you still get the DRAM LED? Then those parts you took out are ruled out, they have nothing to do with it. Since you also tried four different RAM modules (you could try them all in a different PC to be sure), it should now be between the PSU, board, or CPU. So then you'd try with a different PSU next (because it's usually easier and less hassle to try with a different CPU first). The other PSU has to be known good, not too old, and of decent quality.

If it's the same with a different PSU, then it's only between the CPU (which houses the memory controller, BTW) and the board. So now you'd have to test a different AM4 CPU in that board, or your CPU in a different AM4 board, to see which one of them it is. I will say this, there have also been rare cases where people on AM4 have just swapped their CPU cooler and suddenly got the CPU LED afterwards, which would suggest some kind of contact problem between CPU and socket perhaps, something like that. But you got the DRAM LED and you haven't said anything about a physical change to the system, so it might have some actual defect that has developed.

Hi, so after multiple testing around I mixed my ram sticks around one 8 and 16 different brands every combination and that worked in 1 and 3 once it boot all but 3 of my ram sticks work I was using 2x16. It seems 1 of my 16s is faulty but also the 2nd ram slot on my mother board. The 2x8 works in 2 and 4 then crashes but runs fine in 1 and 3. I already ordered a new motherboard as I thought it was screwed from me messing around with it. Will it cause me any issues trying the ram that isn’t working now in it once I get the new board in?

 

[citay]

It's risky ordering a new board, the memory controller is in the CPU as i said, and the board is more of a passive component in the memory system. I mean, of course it supplies power to the modules and it has the RAM slots and PCB traces and CPU socket, but the "brains" of the system is inside the CPU. So i just hope it works out for you. There shouldn't be any harm from trying all the RAM in the new board.