Anyone know anything about built computers? I just built this one but cannot get it to boot. I can boot into bios but if I try to load the drive it crashes after the grub. Occasionally it will show the Linux mint icon as it tries to load and then crashes. Put in a live USB and same thing
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Could be memory, reseat each memory stick and maybe even run a memory test.
I wouldn't call this a crash, so maybe not related: when I installed Mint on an older laptop years ago, it turned off the backlight in the settings because the backlight=1 flag was inverted or something. I had to add a runtime script to flip it back on when the boot sequence was complete.
The only way I figured this out was to shine a flashlight on the screen to see there was in fact something being displayed because otherwise it was completely black. I think I connected an old VGA monitor to write the script, then it was good to go for the rest of its life. Hope this helps.
Possible bad CPU.
Or temperature issue?
When you put on heat sink what thermal paste did you use?
Or maybe the bios needs an update.
Motherboard seems good if it's not failing on POST checks and doing the other stuff.
Used the paste that came with the cooler
I'm assuming your using a quality power supply?
Thermaltake GX2 gold 600w
Can you have a list of all the parts your using?
Examine the cpu pins to make sure they aren't bent or worse
Double check that power cables to video card are securely connected completely
Try pulling out all but one stick of RAM
If you have integrated video on motherboard, try pulling out video card and configure to use integrated in the bios
Also, if you can take a picture or video of the crash sequence it might be helpful in ascertaining what's happening
Ryzen 5 3600 - USED
Asrock B550M Pro4 - NEW
GTX 1660 Super- USED
Thermalright cooler - NEW
Thermalright GX2 600w - NEW
ddr4 3200 mhz ram -NEW
Micron SSD - moved from last computer
I have reseated the CPU, reseated and replaced GPU, checked each stick of RAM and a memory check, reset BIOS to default, and tried to do a clean install with a live USB. No luck.
It posts to BIOS no issues. I can usually get it to the grub but as I try to boot the OS it just stops and reboots to BIOS. I either just get the Linux splash screen for a minute or if I boot it in recovery mode it runs script for a bit and boot loops.
It doesn’t give me any errors but finally got it to give me this below. A boot loop is almost always RAM but I am wondering if the CPU is bad
Seems like you have tested most of the stuff what about the hard drive. It works fine if you run from the usb with something like knoppix but not if you run from the drive? Your output doesn’t mean anything to me I just hadn’t heard you say anything about the hard drive. Or verify all was well booting from another source.
I plugged in a live USB. It loads the grub but if I try to load the live version or comparability version it stops during loading and reboots to BIOS
Updated the BIOS just because. Didn’t fix it but got it to at least freeze instead of crash. PROGRESS!
Does it do same when booting from live USB disk?
No change. Crashes on loading, even in compatibility mode. Should I just buy a new CPU?
It's a tough call. May need to do that.
I think it might be a bad CPU. How would I check? I reseated it but no change