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So I just got a PC delivered after a few weeks of waiting (its an international shipment) and when I held the box, I heard some rattling. When I look inside (without opening the case) I saw the ram sticks are both disconnected and just laying around. I opened the case, plugged them in (its an ITX board with 2 slots, so there are no mistakes in plugging them in), I powered it and all the fans are spinning (gpu fan, cpu cooling fan, PSU fan, and another exhaust fan connected to the MOBO) but nothing happens. My monitor is plugged into the GPU, I tried using 1 ram stick at a time at different slots, tried it with both of the sticks, I tried to replug all of the power cables going from the psu to different components I tried reseating the GPU But no luck with all options. What could it be? is there a chance the motherboard is dead, perhaps the sticks knocked off a capacitor or something from the motherboard? I will try my friend’s ram in a few days, and I will try my ram in his PC. All repair stores are closed for some time so I can only troubleshoot by myself. Can someone help me identify the problem? Parts list - GPU - Zotac 1660 SuperCPU - Ryzen 3 3100PSU - Silverstone 500W 80+ GoldSSD - Team Group 512 GB SataRAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GBMotherboard - Gigabyte B450 i Aorus pro wifi ITX
Hi @sevbites , Try connecting a system speaker to the motherboard’s system speaker header pins and check for any POST beep error codes that may be heard when trying to start the PC. Here’s an image from the user manual to show where to connect it.
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it sounds like it may have been dropped during transit if not even with the ram flopping about inside during transit could have done damage to the motherboard or other components I would look at testing the chips and other components in there to make sure they are all connected I would also get on to the person who sent it and even the company who delivered it they maybe able to tell you what happened during transit to give you an idea of if it was a transit drop or a seller fault hope this helps
