Upgrade PC for Video Editing

K.O.Kiki

brianblaze wrote: »

Threadripper was a joke. Got a ryzen 7 3.6ghx. No cooler in the box. I have the old stock cooler from my Intel a6300.... would that do okay as a temporary fix?

No, the Intel cooler has different mounting points.

You'd best bite the bullet and get something cheap.

TerrorFirmer

brianblaze wrote: »

Threadripper was a joke. Got a ryzen 7 3.6ghx. No cooler in the box. I have the old stock cooler from my Intel a6300.... would that do okay as a temporary fix?

Nope, totally different type of cooler (unless you got really inventive with cable ties but realistically....no). Just call into Maplin and they'd have a suitable AM4 compatiable cooler most likely.

brianblaze

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Nope, totally different type of cooler (unless you got really inventive with cable ties but realistically....no). Just call into Maplin and they'd have a suitable AM4 compatiable cooler most likely.

Yeah ended up going for a new one. Probably for the best anyway! Keep me from melting my house. Ha

brianblaze

Disaster. Forgot I had ddr3 RAM. so went to CEX to get DDR4, so built it up and....nothing.

Won't boot into bios or any display at all really. I assume it's the RAM? Everything powers up and a few whirrs but no beep.

DDR4 PC19200 2400MHZ 288Pin RAM is what I have... is that the culprit?

wotzgoingon

brianblaze wrote: »

Disaster. Forgot I had ddr3 RAM. so went to CEX to get DDR4, so built it up and....nothing.

Won't boot into bios or any display at all really. I assume it's the RAM? Everything powers up and a few whirrs but no beep.

DDR4 PC19200 2400MHZ 288Pin RAM is what I have... is that the culprit?

I'm confused have you got a Threadripper CPU or a Ryzen 7?

brianblaze

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'm confused have you got a Threadripper CPU or a Ryzen 7?

Ryzen 7.... the threaripper was supposed to be a joke

TerrorFirmer

brianblaze wrote: »

Disaster. Forgot I had ddr3 RAM. so went to CEX to get DDR4, so built it up and....nothing.

Won't boot into bios or any display at all really. I assume it's the RAM? Everything powers up and a few whirrs but no beep.

DDR4 PC19200 2400MHZ 288Pin RAM is what I have... is that the culprit?

CEX don't test ram, they just take it in. It's a lucky dip. So it's pretty likely the ram just plain doesn't work.

Can't believe that's a business model in an international company. They don't test CPU's or hard drives either, just take in and re-sell.

The only component they test is GPUs....but even then they're a joke. I had a guy tell me one day they couldn't accept my trade it as it over heated.

That's strange I said, I've had it two years and until I brought it in today it was fine...did it actually turn off?

No, the guy explained, but it went over 70c which is overheating. I tried to explain to him that most cards go up to 100c safely and 70c is a totally normal temperature for about 70% of cards - I even pointed out they had a reference R9 290 in the store, which reaches 95c by default.

Got nowhere, he was adamant that 70c was overheating and handed me back the card with a receipt with a huge "FAIL" written across it.

brianblaze

So, no Boot, no Bios, No beeps....

Pulled GPU and RAM, no Boot, no bios, no beeps...

Am I cursed, and it's the new Mobo? ( Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard) Any way to test?

TerrorFirmer

The best thing to do is assemble it outside the case on a cardboard box - just board, cpu, power supply, ram. See what happens.

Do you've a speaker attached to it to hear beeps? Without ram/ram error it should still beep...or does the board have LED codes?

brianblaze

MoBo lights up (which I didn't know it did, so that was interesting!) and I installed the speaker but no Beep at all an any start up, which is why I'm starting to suspect the new MoBo is the problem. Might need to go to a technician as I need this sorted ASAP and I will end up throwing it off a roof if I don't get it sorted soon!

TerrorFirmer

The other thing is to make sure the CPU is 100% installed correctly/not damaged - AM4 CPU's are easy to damage compared to Intel CPUs as they have a pin design.

Also ensure all power cables are connected correctly, also even as simple as your power button being wired correctly from the case (you can just use a screwdriver to connect the pins and start the PC up either without button)

brianblaze

It all powers etc, just no end result. Checked the cpu there and it looks fine. I think I got a faulty mobo maybe

K.O.Kiki

Did you remember to plug the monitor into the GPU instead of the mobo?

brianblaze

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Did you remember to plug the monitor into the GPU instead of the mobo?

Tried both. Left it in to right click for a checkup