New M/B-CPU refuses to boot

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 01:11, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Where do I start?
>
> I decided I wanted to upgrade my Intel i7 AsRock 97 mobo combo with a
> newer, higher powered processor and more memory.
>
> I bought an AMD Ryzen 9 5950 with an ASUS Tuf X570 Pro m/b, 32Gb of
> DDR 3200 RAM and a VisionTek Radeon HD 5450 video card (because the
> m/b needs a CPU with onboard graphics and the 5950 doesn;t have that
> and requires a video card).
>
> I got it to boot up into the PROM, checked the specs and told it to go
> ahead and boot.
>
> Nada - black screen.
>
> Originally I got the grub prompt, but frankly I don't know what to do
> from there.
>
> It didn't even allow PROM access every time, just occasionally.

Just to reinforce what others have said, if you can't reliably get
into the BIOS/ROM then you probably have a hardware problem.

Colin