5 beeps, is CPU dead?

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   Came home today to my computer failing to boot and giving 5 beeps. I have a Fatal1ty B350 motherboard and Ryzen 1700. I have attempt to reset CMOS, both with jumper and by pulling battery. Now the system won't even beep, it just ramps fans up and down, similar to performing ram timing, but it is stuck in an infinite loop. 
I googled the 5 beeps for this mobo and came up with CPU error. Is the processor dead? 

Please help.
Thank you

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y3llo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote y3llo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: 5 beeps, is CPU dead? Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 3:53am
	Came home today to my computer failing to boot and giving 5 beeps. I have a Fatal1ty B350 motherboard and Ryzen 1700. I have attempt to reset CMOS, both with jumper and by pulling battery. Now the system won't even beep, it just ramps fans up and down, similar to performing ram timing, but it is stuck in an infinite loop. I googled the 5 beeps for this mobo and came up with CPU error. Is the processor dead? Please help. Thank you

y3llo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote y3llo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 11:25am
	Unsuccessful update: I pulled of the heat sink, cleaned up the cpu and heatsink and re-applied paste. Still stuck in a boot loop with no beeps.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 25073	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 4:06pm
	Can we get your full system specs please, as well as PSU model and capacity. Only knowing the motherboard and CPU makes it difficult to help you. Air or water cooling? Power hungry GPU or budget low power model? etc


y3llo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote y3llo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 5:06pm
	Corsair PSU model RM850X (850W) 2x8gb G skill 3200 F4-3200C14D-16GFX Vega 56 (recently replaced more power hungry 290X) Air cooling (stock)

datonyb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 Apr 2017 Location: London U.K. Status: Offline Points: 3139	Post Options Post Reply Quote datonyb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 6:52pm
	tested spare psu ? tested with the old gpu ? tested with 1 ram stick in a1 and then in a2 ? reset the cmos before each test
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y3llo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote y3llo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Nov 2017 at 7:14am
	Well without having a spare psu, I skipped right to the ram, pulled out a stick from B2, reset cmos and the computer booted. Pulled out both stick and reinstalled them. Now everything is back to normal... It might seem obvious to try everything you described but I was absolutely stuck on the 5 beep error code, being a cpu error. I suppose the ram being so closely timed to the cpu, this could have generated this error and it certainly did. Thank you very much for the help. I kind of knew to that I should try swapping all the components but wanted to hear it from someone with more experience. Thank you again!

datonyb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 Apr 2017 Location: London U.K. Status: Offline Points: 3139	Post Options Post Reply Quote datonyb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Nov 2017 at 8:37am
	no problem glad i could be of help
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