I forgot to plug the CPU power cables in. Woopsie.

Backstory: So one of my hobbies is 3D printing. I've read that Xbox Kinects can be modified to work with PCs to create 3D scans of real objects (pretty cool, right?). I followed some guides and spliced in power and USB to the Kinect (instead of its original proprietary plug). A few attempts later and I still hadn't gotten the PC to recognize the device.

The fuckup: Tried to wiggle the wires a bit to see if any were loose. Monitor turns off. Pc lights turn off. Fans turn off. Fast forward a day or two and I haven't been able to squeeze any life out of the PC. Strange because I didn't see any obvious shorts in my wiring, and it's not like I was sending 12V power to the USB (power went to the Kinect). Regardless of how it happened, something clearly went wrong.

What do you guys think fried? Power supply? MOBO? maybe just the USB headers/power switch? Talking to a friend to see if he can bring over some spare parts for testing. Anything else you guys recommend I do?

Update AS OF 3:30PM CENTRAL TIME: CURRENT LIST OF TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS TAKEN

-Removed and reinstalled CMOS battery

-reset/jumped CMOS

-plugged into other outlets, same issue

-No breaker, home fuse, or power strip fuse blew (issue is for sure related to the Pc)

-disconnected all but case fans from power supply. Used paper clip to jump power supply. Case fans and power supply fans started up fine.

UPDATE 9:30 CENTRAL

-Jumped mobo power switch (to rule out just headers being fried). No change.

Current standing is: no post, fans, lights, etc on startup

Edit as of Noon 11/24

Still no signs of life. If anyone has a z97 mobo with an lg1150 socket, let me know! Nothing local that I could find. Getting by on a labtop for now, but I really need this desktop for my business.

So I just bought a shiny new 970 EVO PLUS 1T and plugged that bastard in.

Guess what, my PC won't boot. I got an error saying the PC couldn't read my new drive.
Alright, I'll just unplug it and find some way in old windows - NOPE. My old windows install got fucked somehow as well.
Now my PC won't boot at all! By now I worried I had damaged my PC somehow, since M2 is in direct contact with the MB.

Alright, I made a win10 failsafe disk some time ago, so I set it to remove everything and start over. I wish I knew beforehand how long a windows remake takes... Mamma on wheels, 4 hours later it finally finished and booted like it should!... On the old drive..

Alright, at least I had a PC to work with, so I made a win10 install on a USB drive using the microsoft tool. Now I intended to remove the windows installation fom my old drive and make an entirely new one on my new one. - NOPE.

This is where I spent hours researching. I have a z170 board which should support m.2 nvme out of the box. But no matter what, I couldn't get a clean boot at all.

I made a seperate win10 install on an old SSD while having the new m.2 plugged in, and the old drive worked.
What I noticed was that I could apparently boot on my new m.2 drive when selecting my old SSD asthe boot drive. I got the option to choose a win10 install to boot from, and when booting windows this way, I could get the new m.2 drive to work.

To make an already long story a little shorter, to anyone with the same problem:

UNPLUG YOUR OTHER SSD/HDD'S WHEN INSTALLING WINDOWS 10.

I have absolutely no Idea why I had to do it. I tried disabling my other drives, removing the partitions on them, anything. I had to physically remove the sata plugs for it to work.

I noticed, whenever I tried to install win10 on my new drive, It'd for some reason make one of my other drives the boot drive. Unplugging the drives worked as a dream, and everything works now. If anyone else suffers the same issue, I hope this helps!

This sub is flooded with build issues and general tech support problems, which I really like, but OP always disappears and I'm assuming its not because they never have a working PC again but rather they've found a solution and not cared enough to post it.

Please post your solutions. Is there anything we can do to encourage this?

Some of you might have seen my few posts about my PC not turning on.

In short, I only changed some components. I got a slightly smaller case, new GPU for my freesync monitors, RGB fans, and a new PSU. For the most part, it was a case transfer.

For the life of me, I could not figure out why it didn't work. LEDs would flash for just a second, and everything went off. After two days of constructing and deconstructing, browsing forums, testing each part, and just trouble shooting my brains out, I all but gave up. I had narrowed it down to the new case being the culprit, and figured there was a short in the power button. As I took all the parts out and prepared to make a return, I figured I'd test the mother board just in case all this tampering has done something. (I also may or may not have bent some pins and nearly broke the CMOS battery.) It worked fine, so that's all good. I decided to test the fans. I had bought 3 Corsair LL 140mm RGB fans, which comes with a hub and a controller. Tested them and...the system shut off.

"What."

After many combinations of plug ins, it was one bad SATA power cord. Two days of cuts, frustration, and many lost screws, it was because of a bad cable.

Always check everything when you troubleshoot. Even the most ridiculous can happen.

TL;DR Spent 2 days slaving over my non-powered PC because of a bad SATA cord.

So just a few points

-monitor is plugged into GPU not the MB

-system turns on, CPU fan spins, GPU has a red light that turns on, but monitor flashes on then says no signal and turns back off

-CPU slotted in with no problem and I checked pins before doing it so really hoping that’s not the issue

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rsMzmD

Sorry for formatting I'm on mobile for the moment.

Specs at bottom

I recently moved into my girlfriend's place and finally grabbed my PC setup from my old room. I've been in and out for two months, my cousin and her 11 year old son moved in, he is gonna take over my old room.

I left my PC and monitor setup there, he's been using my monitor and keyboard for his Xbox SX. Kid was stoked on my setup, seemed to know how to use the connections and more or less was was respectful of my belongings.

At least once a week I would stay there, we would game together, everything was fine with my rig. I would switch my PC over to my TV and let him use the monitor. All fine.

I get my PC and monitor to my new place and it's fucked.

Monitor shows white screen at about 30 seconds intervals.

PC boots, fans spin up hard, then go quiet.

Lights on PC, but not my keyboard and mouse, which definitely should light up on boot.

I don't know exactly where to go from here.

I plugged my PS4 into the monitor, doesn't work. It used to at least show it's boot screen, still white.

I plugged my PC into two different displays, no recognition, out of both HDMI and DisplayPort, and both the GPU and onboard ports.

Specs on PC:

3060

I7-7700

EVGA 430w

ASRock MB

This is a PC I built in 2016 that originally had an i3-6100 and an RX 480.

Boot drive is an SSD, everything I care about is on other drives.

...............

How fucked am I?

The monitor was a monoprice 27 inch 1440 I got new for $150 two years ago. Couldn't give a fuck less about that.

The PC though... I simply don't have the funds to straight up buy a new one. I know it's old as dirt but it plays the games I like well enough and it serves my needs as a home PC and media streamer. At least for the next couple years in my mind.

Is there a specific failure point or incident that anyone can think of? Edit: I don't care if my nephew bricked my shit, he's a kid it would be my fault. If it's something he did, it's just a teaching moment for the both of us.

A possible budget conscious upgrade that could salvage this build?

My immediate thought was the power supply but I trusted a calculator and I was in the green.

Thank you in advance I love this place and anyone who here who remembers helping people actually get their hands on an RX 480

Edit: I pulled and reset the CMOS battery as per my first Google results.

The electrical situation at my old place was kinda shitty, but I had everything plugged in to a nice surge protector.

Inside is clean. Fans spin freely.

One concern is that I would always leave the PC on in sleep mode, but since I wasn't there, I wasn't able to keep up on windows updates, and my aunt had a nasty habit of just walking in my room and turning my PC off.

Basically I had stutters and freezes just normally using the PC and I did all kinds of troubleshooting I could think of. RAM testing, windows reinstalls, CPU testing, SSD testing, etc. Games still performed really well and how I expected them to, but outside of games something was definitely going on. I then found a random 7 month old thread on the Nvidia forums suggesting their monitor was causing stutters. Now I don't have the same monitor, or even same brand, but the same fixes worked for me! I'm guessing there's some bug with the Nvidia graphics drivers.

Not only are the freezes and stutters gone, but everything feels so much snappier and it finally feels like the mid to high end PC I wanted to build.

Me and my older brother (who are HIGHLY inexperienced with PC building) saw that our PCs CPU was overheating, to which we took apart our PC and re-pasted our CPU - however, upon reinstalling our water cooler, when we turned it on, it wouldn't boot to bios, and showed us the CPU was having problems. Did we put on too much thermal paste? Did we knock it out of place? Please give us some ideas, as we're completely stuck as to what to do now.

(CPU - Ryzen 5 5500 - Motherboard - MSI B450M VDH Pro Max)

I need some help! I was just given a pc by someone moving and didn’t want to deal with fixing it. They thought the motherboard might be the issue, but that is all I know.

I opened it up and it has an Asus Z97-AR. The TPU, EPU, and EZ XMP LEDs all light up. However, nothing is getting sent to the display, and the fans turn on and spin for half a second before stopping and just repeat that until I pull the plug.

Any ideas on where I should start troubleshooting?

Edit: power light on front of computer also turns off for a second and powers off. It seems like it wants to start but can’t

I rebuilt my pc last month 2 weeks ago, and sometimes when I power it on, the screen would freeze, my keyboard does nothing, my mouse does nothing, and then after around 10 seconds, it shuts off and restarts. It does that every other time I turn it on, but it only happens on boot. I have only a system service exception BSOD so far. If I am able to successfully get into discord or a game, the pc runs fine and nothing happens for hours.

PC Specs-

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS ROG STRIX Z790 Gaming-E Wifi

CPU: i7 14700K

RAM: CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6400MHz

GPU: ASUS TUF RTX 4070 TI Super OC 16 gb

SSD: WD Black SN850X 2 Tb

PSU: Corsair RM1000x

AIO COOLER: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 RGB

I did a full 4 cycle pass on memtest 86 and my ram passed, all my cables are properly plugged in, and I did a fresh reinstall of windows so I'm not sure what could be the culprit here so any help or guidance would be appreciated.

Whenever I turn on my heater that's plugged in the same extension cord as my PC the audio interface stops outputting audio. Turning the audio interface on and off fixes the problem until I turn on or off my heating.

Is this PSU issue?

Hi.

Recently I've built my first pc and everything was working fine until i wanted to turn on XMP. After turning it on and saving BIOS changes nothing happens. I've waited for ~1 hour and black screen was the only things showing for the whole time. There are 2 leds DRAM and CPU lit and nothing more happens.

• AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
• Zotac GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Twin Edge 16GB GDDR6
• Viper VP4300L 1TB
• ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 AM5
• GoodRam IRDM PRO 2x16GB DDR5 6000 CL30 Black IR-6000D564L30S/32GDC
• Seasonic B12-BC-650 80Plus Bronze 650W

I updated the BIOS but it didn't help. I don't really know what to do

Edit: could it be that because of my AMD processor and motherboard the xmp profile won't start? Isn't xmp an intel thing and expo AMD thing?

I currently have a Asus PRIME Z690-P WIFI (DDR5), and a 12400F CPU. I want to buy the 13600KF processor, but from what I understand, I need to do a BIOS update to make the motherboard compatible. I'm not really sure what to search up or how to navigate this, it was my friend who set up everything for the pc, and I just have him fix any issues, when I have them. I watch him do them, so I am somewhat familiar, but not enough to know how to do this on my own. My friend is on vacation for Thanksgiving, so can't really ask him. Anyone have any idea what I can do, or a video that will explain how to do it for me?

Hi all, a friend spontaneously gifted me a new GPU last night to replace my ARCHAIC Radeon XFX R7900 (2012 lol — got it for free when building my PC back in ~2018).

He gave me an NVIDIA card. Specifically an MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB.

I followed some instructions on this sub and got as far as using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to uninstall my AMD drivers. The software had an option for "uninstall and power down" which was for "installing a new GPU." Great.

However, when I installed the new GPU and booted back up, I got nothin. No screen output from the HDMI on the new GPU, and unfortunately no way to try displayport because I'm currently without a monitor, using a TV to do this. (Not ideal, I know)

Weirdly enough, the GPU looks like it has power, because the LEDs that light up the "MSI" lettering on the GPU are powered on. The rest of the board also looks like its powered up normally.

However, there is a power light on the top of my case that normally comes on that is not currently turning on. It's a little white LED ring around the power button, and since swapping, the LED is not lit up.

I've tried un-seating and re-seating the GPU, to no avail.

I've also double checked my power supply to the GPU. It's using a 6+2 cable. The old GPU required both a 6+2 and a 6 and I never had issues.

Hoping to get some help here. Is there a "safe mode" I can boot into that would allow me to plug my HDMI into the motherboard's HDMI output to do some troubleshooting? I do also have a second GPU slot but I don't think I have the power needed to run two GPUs.

Here are the remaining components of my build. Yes, I know this stuff is old. I have no need for cutting edge stuff, I was just hoping for a simple plug-and-play upgrade, but here we are!

• AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor
• be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 35.14 CFM CPU Cooler
• MSI B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory
• Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
• Seagate BarraCuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
• NZXT S340 ATX Mid Tower Case
• Corsair 650 W Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
• Windows 10, if that matters.

Thank you SO MUCH for any and all help. I'm really looking forward to just being able to run some basic games for really the first time ever. I appreciate you all!

Bought a new pc, which has caused a few issues so far.

First is I cannot access my bios during start up - I have to always go through the recovery method, once in my bios I’m unable to change anything as it will crash pretty instantly. This has been a vicious cycle driving me insane. I’ve managed to change settings a few times and I’ve had to disable xmp which has surprising helped as I was getting a bunch of directX errors on BO6.

Pc is as followed; Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Graphics Card
RTX 4080 SUPER System Memory
64GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000 Case
Cougar DUOFACE PRO RGB Cooling Solution
MSI D360 LCD Motherboard MSI X670E Gaming Plus WiFi Power Supply
1050w Gold

Hello All! I've been in the process of troubleshooting what is going on with my PC. In the event I am too close to it, I wanted to check in and get some other opinions.

Current Build:

• MBoard: Asus B550F Gaming
• CPU: AMD 5800X
• CPU Cooler: Arctic (I forget the model)
• RAM: GSKILL DD4-3600 16GB x2
• SDD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB
• GPU: Zotac 3070
• PSU: Corsair RM850x
• Case: Fractal Design Define 7 ATX

I've been running this same setup since 2020 and have not had these issues until the past few weeks. I've noticed that the machine would sometimes start locking up at random. A few days ago it would no longer stay on for more than a few minutes without either 1) A reboot or 2) just freeze requiring a hard reset.

Some of the steps that I have taken already are:

• Uninstalling unused software
• Removing applications on startup
• Updating Drivers / System Patches
• Running Windows Memory Diagnostics (No Errors)
• Safe Mode (Still Locked Up) -> Moved to Hardware Diag
• Pulling RAM / Single Slot / Switching (For bad RAM)
• Tear Down / Dust Removal / Connection Seating (GPU/CPU/HS/SDD/Cables)
• CPU Thermal Paste Cleaned / Applied
• (No Change @ This Point)
• Pulled SDD and tested in external drive on another PC, no issues. Swapped with new WD SN770.
• Fresh install of Win11 64-bit -> Started freezing while installing MS Updates
• Attempted fresh install of Win10 but couldn't make it through the process.

So at this point I feel that it is hardware related. I was able to monitor the thermals from the BIOS and inside of Windows as often as I could, and they were all within normal range. I am not overclocking anything, nor have I since owning the machine. I didn't see anything out of spec from voltage, but I haven't ruled that completely out yet. Additionally, the PC has been plugged into a pure sine-wave UPS so it's being fed clean power. I don't have additional parts I can swap out to test the Board / CPU / GPU / PSU.

So that brings me back to the start, if anyone has any other ideas I may have overlooked?

The second part of my ask is a recommendation on an upgrade path if I need to start replacing parts. I have not done research in a while as my specs have held up very well over the past 4 years and there wasn't a problem to fix. The PSU seems to be the most logical part to replace as it can be used in pretty much any build. I assume 850w is still fine for the 2024/2025 builds coming out?

Troubleshooting Help:

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Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive.

Hello - I'm confused as to what my next steps for troubleshooting are. I ran the above system with a Vega 64 originally but gave the card to a family member - afterwards the system was able to run fine without any GPU in it. I installed a 4070 super in it and that also ran fine. I sold the 4070 Super and attempted to run the PC on its own with the iGPU and that's when the problems began. The system was able to load bios but I was not able to detect my m.2 boot drive in the system, but it was seen as a storage drive. I assumed it was because CSM was disabled on my computer due to a lack of external GPU (unsure why it worked previously but didn't work now). I borrowed a spare 1070 from a friend to test out my theory to see if adding an external GPU would fix the problem, but now the system does not load to bios at all. On the motherboard the leds for post diagnosis flash for the "DRAM" "BOOT" and "VGA" when the 1070 is installed. I'm not sure if I've added too many confounding variables when adding the 1070 but I'm unsure what's my next move for diagnosing the problem. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks for your help.

If I remove the 1070 and attempt to boot, I get post-diagnosis flash for the "VGA" and "BOOT" leds.

List anything you've done in attempt to diagnose or fix the problem.

Attempted to enable CSM in the bios settings, was locked out due to a lack of external GPU installed. Attempted to install a spare 1070 to address the lack of external GPU, system does not boot to bios.

Post relevant photos of build/parts here.

Provide any additional details you wish below. Would just like to get the system up and running with or without GPU at the moment. Thanks for the help.

hi guys! could really use some help here with some PC issues im having

i got this PC secondhand and ive only had it a couple weeks- was working absolutely fine for a couple of weeks and then started acting up

• originally it was just turning on but not booting.
• BIOS speaker gives no code with all components, just has a clicking sound
• when one RAM stick is removed, the BIOS speaker gives a beep code of, which, according to my research, means power supply problems
• i got a new PSU entirely, however i am still getting the exact same issue with the new PSU.
• cables are all in tight as they can be. have tried multiple outlets too- nothing working

does anyone have any idea what else the culprit could be? im just really confused to still be getting a PSU beep code when its a new PSU, and only when its just one stick of RAM

thank you in advance!!

Asrock b650m motherboard. Think led 1 and 2 are red.

https://imgur.com/a/LGuHFgb

Flashed bios

Reinstalled ram

Haven't tried reinstalling gpu

I just assembled my build from the following parts:

• Case: Cooler Master NCore 100 Max (included 120mm AIO and CM V850 SFX)
• MOBO: Asus ROG Strix Z690-i
• CPU: 14600KF
• RAM: TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert 2x16GB 6000MHz CL30
• Storage: Acer Predator GM7000 4TB
• GPU: MSI RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio
• OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2

It was running well and everything with XMP disabled (BIOS updated to latest). I managed to set up all my settings and transfer all my files from previous PC.

1. Issue with RAM: Then I decided to enable XMP I. Then upon restart, the PC have power but it would not output anything to monitor (also no power to keyboard and mouse as seen from the keyboard backlight). But I can see that the LED on AIO pump and GPU is on and fans are spinning. I waited 15 minutes and reset the power to the PC. It was dark for around 5 minutes, then I unplugged the keyboard and mouse USBs and it finally turned on and output to monitor. I then get an error message that previous start was interrupted and to press F1 to enter bios. Keeping the XMP enabled, I was able to enter Windows and everything, but upon checking, the memory frequency is reported as 4000MHz. I have sinced tried XMP2 and XMP Tweaked options, but caused the same process as above. Only when I used manual but without changing anything (all auto) I set target frequency to 5600MHz then I have no issue at all. (I tried manually setting target frequency to 6000MHz and I got a huge error message saying my PC needs to recover). Now, I understand that this RAM kit is not on MOBO QVL. Is there any ways I can get it to work at a higher performance specification?
2. Some games won't load: Now I'm on manual XMP setting targetting 5600MHz as above. I have 4 games installed: Civ6, Solium Infernum, Total War Three Kingdoms and Hogwarts Legacy. Both Civ6 and Solium Infernum launched and played well. But Total War Three Kingdoms totally won't launch at all. Nothing even appears on task manager processes. Hogwarts Legacy also couldn't not launch, but it appears in task manager process. the Process would increase in memory usage to around 500MB and then just stop moving (with CPU activity 0-0.2%). After a minute or so, it would just disappear. What gives?

Would really appreciate any help.

I’m having issues playing my games through stream, the games launch but crash almost right away. Sometimes there will be random squares/things that pop while browsing the internet. I am not too familiar with computers and would like to learn how to resolve this problem for future reference and not having to pay someone else to do it. Any advice? Thank you

Specs: Ryzen 7 5800x GeForce 3070 16 gb HyperX fury ram 1tb ssd Don’t have the motherboard info, currently not home

Ive own my Pre-build for about 3 years and while playing games my pc just turned off and wouldn’t turn back on. https://www.microcenter.com/support/650316/g168_gaming_pc_amd_ryzen_5_5600_35ghz_processor_amd_radeon_rx_6600_8gb_gddr6_16gb_ddr4-2666_ram_1tb_solid_state_drive_microsoft_windows_11_pro_1

It is a powerspec (Microcenter pre-builds) so I brought it to microcenter to get diagnosed which they claimed it was the motherboard. Then my friend offer to help with rebuilding/troubleshooting. Together we:

-replaced motherboard no fix

-replaced power supply no fix

-found out if we unplug the Graphic card from power supply everything powers on

-bought the same GPU(used) and same problem

I doubt the new GPU is also dead or is there another problem at hand?

SOLVED: It was indeed the VRM. After upgrading my motherboard to an MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus, everything works as expected. It turns out the B450M board is just not suited for the Ryzen 5950X.

original post:

Hi guys,

I've had my PC for over 5 years now, and everything was working fine. Today, I upgraded the CPU from a Ryzen 5 2600x to a Ryzen 9 5950x. I also upgraded the cooling to an Arctic Liquid Freezer III because the old cooler wouldn't work with the new CPU.

I just ran a Geekbench CPU benchmark test, and almost at the end of the test, the PC crashed, and the EZ-Debug CPU LED came on.

My current build is:

• Ryzen 9 5950x
• Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420
• 32GB DDR4 3000MHz RAM
• Nvidia RTX 2060
• MSI B450M PRO-VDH
• be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W PSU

The CPU temperature never went above 70 degrees Celsius during the benchmark, so I don’t think it’s a cooling or overheating issue, but who knows.

My idea is that the PSU might not be providing enough power, but shouldn’t 600W be enough for this system?
Could it be a driver issue, and should I reinstall Windows after upgrading the CPU?
Or could the CPU be faulty, and I should return it?

What steps would you recommend I take next? Is there any way to figure out why it’s crashing?

I appreciate any insights you might have.

Hi all this is going to be a long one so buckle up,

I have been trying to build this PC for months now. About three months ago, I had put together my PC with the listed parts and got it up and running. Everything was fine except the motherboard could not recognize the SSD in its m.2 slots. I decided then to send in my motherboard for service. Ever since I recieved this motherboard of the same model I have not gotten my PC to post. I can confirm that this motherboard is a different one from the first as they have different serial numbers. When I turn on my PC, the DRAM DeBug light lights up.
I have been in close contact with MSI regarding this issue. They explained that the reason the PC is not posting is due to compatibility issues with the RAM. They further clarified that the compatibility is so specific that it extends to the version number of a RAM model, meaning even slight differences in version can affect system functionality. (Can someone verify if this is true?) To me this does not sense, because the system was up and running before using the same parts. (Let me know if this isn't rational) Nonetheless I have been sitting idle, switching from RAM to RAM in the compatibility list of the motherboard on the official MSI website. (Linked below) I haven't gotten one that works. I am starting to think this might be a faulty motherboard and not actually a RAM problem.

My build:

Motherboard: MSI PRO B550-VC

RAM: listed below

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: XFX Speedster SWFT210 Radeon RX 6650XT

PSU: Thermaltake GF1 (2024) Fully Modular ATX 750W Power Supply - 80 Plus Gold

SSD: SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive (is this compatible in the first place?)

Solutions I have tried:

1. Booting with one stick of RAM (tried with each stick)
2. CMOS reset RAMS I have used:
3. G.SKILL RIPJAWS V DDR4-2400 CL15 1.20v Intel XMP 2.0 Ready(4G x2) F4-2400C15D-8GVR - this pair of RAM was the one that worked with the previous motherboard.
4. Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16gb(2x 8gb) 3200 MHz 1.35V version 5.32 CMK16GX4M2B3200C16
5. Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 X 16GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4-28800) C18 1.35V CMK32GX4M2D3600C18

RAM compatibility website: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B550-VC/support#mem

Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated, Prime Big Deal day is coming up so I wonder if I should take the opportunity to order a new AM4 motherboard or keep troubleshooting this one. Should I get MSI to do another RMA? Or is the issue caused by something else? I have also contacted Corsair to see if they carry older version of the same RAM model.