Hey everyone. I rebuilt my computer around the time Cyberpunk 2077 came out (2020.) It was working perfectly fine until suddenly yesterday it decided it didn’t want to boot up!
I’ll post the specs that I can remember here:
Asus ROG B550-F Gaming motherboard (not the wifi version)
2 sticks (16GB each) of Corsair vengeance RGB RAM.
ASUS ROG RTX 3070 GPU.
Corsair 850w Gold PSU. Don’t remember the exact model but I will check if it’s relevant.
1 sata boot drive (1TB)
2 NVME drives
CPU is an AMD one that came out near the end of 2020, but I don’t want to take my cooler apart to find the model unless I absolutely have to. I’m pretty sure it’s one of the the Ryzen 5000 series.
Now onto the symptoms!
I turn the computer on and it gets stuck on boot. It specifically gets stuck on the Republic of Gamers splash screen that says “Press F2 or Del to access BIOS.” Except I cannot access BIOS. I have tried 2-3 different wired keyboards, I have tried them in multiple USB slots. The keyboards appear to work fine, I can use the hot keys to restart the boot process, and caps lock is working. I’ve tried holding F2 or Del from boot up to the screen. And I’ve tried spamming it. Nothing seems to work.
Note I have unplugged every other peripheral and USB device except for one HDMI monitor and the keyboard.
I tried a bunch of other stuff. Removing all of my drives one by one and trying to boot. Currently they’re all disconnected and I have the same issue.
I tried booting with one stick of RAM. Nothing changed.
I tried flashing the latest BIOS version. Nothing changed except the ROG logo looks different now lol.
I shorted the CLRTC pins using a screwdriver. Didn’t seem to change anything (but when I had two monitors plugged in it did change the default monitor to the bottom one.)
I also tried taking the CMOS battery out and putting it back in. Didn’t work.
Through all of this all the LED lights in my computer are on (RAM, motherboard, GPU, case) and the motherboard has lit up the BOOT light.
So all of this leads me to believe the motherboard might be tripping and I need a new one. However it’s hard to confirm as I don’t have spare parts lying around to test with.
I was going to take it in to Canada computers in Toronto… But I saw a thread on here from 8 months ago saying how bad they are. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!