New x470 Taichi won't post

The Athlon 3000g requires an even newer BIOS version than your R5 3600. The Athlon
came out a few months after the 3600, the behavior is different because the
Athlon is based on an older architecture but still requires a newer BIOS to work.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X470%20Taichi%20Ultimate/index.asp#CPU

If you are looking for a fast way to update without a boot kit, always get a CPU
that is supported on all BIOS revisions for your board.

Bit of a long story here.

I'm essentially rebuilding my PC. Components are as follows:

Motherboard: ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate
CPU: RYZEN 5 3600
GPU: Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5500 XT
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
PSU: Antec NeoECO 620W
Storage: Samsung 860 QVO 1TB Solid State Drive
Case: NZXT H510

I put these pieces together, powered the thing on, and... the machine powered up, the LEDs started a slow pulse, but the screen stayed dark. After a moment of the fans whirring, the machine powered off, only to power itself back on again. This continued indefinitely until I turned off the power myself and messaged some friends.

The sharp-eyed among you will have noticed what I came to learn: the x470 needs a BIOS update before it can deal with the Ryzen 3000 series. Rather than wait for the process to get a boot kit from AMD, I opted to just buy a cheap older CPU from Newegg. A few days later I installed an AMD Athlon 3000G and tried to start it up... only to have the same cycle, except this time the LED numbers at the bottom of the board gave me what appeared to be a 61 error code.

From what I've read that's a chipset initialization error, so I pulled the CMOS battery, waited for an hour, replaced it and hit reset, to no change. So far, what I've tried:

-CMOS reset button
-CMOS physical battery removal
-reseating all power cables and data cables
-removing one RAM stick and reseating a single stick in each of the four slots
-removing both RAM sticks
-Reseating GPU
-Removing GPU (tried to cover every single base imaginable here)

My IT friends were at a loss. They decided that it had to be a defect with the motherboard, and the only available option left was to replace it. But something is nagging at me. Am I missing something?

MW

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Blatherskite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2020 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Blatherskite Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jun 2020 at 3:03pm
	I had no idea; I thought the athlon was older all around. Well, my bad. Gonna buy an R3 1200AF and use that.
	MW

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	The Athlon 3000g requires an even newer BIOS version than your R5 3600. The Athlon came out a few months after the 3600, the behavior is different because the Athlon is based on an older architecture but still requires a newer BIOS to work. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X470%20Taichi%20Ultimate/index.asp#CPU If you are looking for a fast way to update without a boot kit, always get a CPU that is supported on all BIOS revisions for your board.


Blatherskite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2020 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Blatherskite Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jun 2020 at 12:01pm
	Forgot to include, here are photos of the rig and the error code: https://imgur.com/a/tDzJYmY
	MW

Blatherskite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2020 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Blatherskite Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jun 2020 at 11:27am
	Bit of a long story here. I'm essentially rebuilding my PC. Components are as follows: Motherboard: ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate CPU: RYZEN 5 3600 GPU: Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5500 XT Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) PSU: Antec NeoECO 620W Storage: Samsung 860 QVO 1TB Solid State Drive Case: NZXT H510 I put these pieces together, powered the thing on, and... the machine powered up, the LEDs started a slow pulse, but the screen stayed dark. After a moment of the fans whirring, the machine powered off, only to power itself back on again. This continued indefinitely until I turned off the power myself and messaged some friends. The sharp-eyed among you will have noticed what I came to learn: the x470 needs a BIOS update before it can deal with the Ryzen 3000 series. Rather than wait for the process to get a boot kit from AMD, I opted to just buy a cheap older CPU from Newegg. A few days later I installed an AMD Athlon 3000G and tried to start it up... only to have the same cycle, except this time the LED numbers at the bottom of the board gave me what appeared to be a 61 error code. From what I've read that's a chipset initialization error, so I pulled the CMOS battery, waited for an hour, replaced it and hit reset, to no change. So far, what I've tried: -CMOS reset button -CMOS physical battery removal -reseating all power cables and data cables -removing one RAM stick and reseating a single stick in each of the four slots -removing both RAM sticks -Reseating GPU -Removing GPU (tried to cover every single base imaginable here) My IT friends were at a loss. They decided that it had to be a defect with the motherboard, and the only available option left was to replace it. But something is nagging at me. Am I missing something?
	MW