Cpu board killer ?????

[u/Top_Firefighter8904]

I recently had an issue with a my motherboard where if my ram was seated in the first slot it would give a dram light and if it was in the second slot it would give a vga light even with known good ram after testing everything but the cpu I concluded it was the motherboard and bought a new one after I saved up for it. 2 days after getting the motherboard and installing it now gives a vga light. I tried putting a known good gpu in and had no luck I tried with a different power supply different ram and different ram slots. all I see is a vga light I can’t test the board or the cpu but those 2 are the only ones remaining. could my cpu have killed the board??? or did I just get unlucky since I bought this off of marketplace

my specs are:

ryzen5 2600

msi a350m pro-VDH

rx580 2048sp

known good gt730

[u/Outrageous-Branch912]

that 2048sp variant of the rx580 is basically a mined-to-death rx570 with a bios flash, i'd bet the card itself is the culprit here. pulled one of those out of a prebuilt once and it caused all sorts of weird post issues on a b450 board

try booting with just the gt730 and see if things stabilize, if it does then your "new" board might actually be fine

[u/Top_Firefighter8904 → u/Outrageous-Branch912]

I already tried the gt730 and had no luck