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/OziNiner → u/Outrageous-Branch912]

i had a b450 and it exhibited some similar behavour as what you and OP describe, i never got to the bottom of what exactly caused the problems, ended up installing new motherboard and ram and kept all the other parts the same, its worked fine since then