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Installed a Ryzen 7 5700G processor to a Gigabyte GA-AB350M-HD3 motherboard. Plugged computer back in, hit power button. Computer powered on but no video output. Double-checked cables, then started Googling. Apparently this is commonly a result of an out-of-date BIOS. Got the latest BIOS update on a flash drive with my roommate's assistance, then went to put the old processor (a Ryzen 5 1500X) back in so that I could run the system BIOS and flash the update, at which point I learned that I accidentally bent several of the pins when removing it. Tried to seat the processor out of a sense of wishful thinking, and sure enough, no number of attempts would get the computer to turn on with it inside.

So, in short: I have a new processor my motherboard doesn't recognize, an old processor it does recognize but is now broken, and a BIOS update that would presumably let it recognize the new processor but that I can't install without a working processor. I've read that some Gigabyte motherboards support loading BIOS updates from a flash drive without a processor, but as far as I can tell, the GA-AB350M-HD3 isn't one of them. Not sure what I'm supposed to do here. I could order another Ryzen 5 1500X, but 1) that costs money and 2) I'd have to wait for it to arrive.

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[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

i did the same thing with a 9800x3d.. i bent some pins on the motherboard and lost the ability to use half my ram

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

it never posted, i ended up sending it back to amazon, where i'm praying they refund it without trying to screw me, and then i had to buy a new motherboard just to get back to my old machine state, but this new motherboard's bios is garbage

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Wow, that sucks. You have my sympathies. Hopefully you get your money back.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

thanks.. it says it will be 2 weeks before they decide. that's a lot of money to just have floating out there :(

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

How exactly would they be screwing you? I mean fuck Amazon and please defraud them, but that's ridiculous.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

because the system never posted with the processor... i didn't do anything to it, so I hope they don't try to screw me by saying it doesn't work and it's my fault

[-] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck thats a costly mistake.

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