ASRock A520M Gaming - not booting to bios

[phillpower2]

More to it than that so will explain, the only 3200MHz RAM that is guaranteed to be compatible with both the CPU and MB is the stuff at the link I provided, it can only be used in slots A2 and B2 and it cannot be overclocked as it is not compatible with XMP, only ASRock support could say whether or not any other RAM will work but it looks like anything XMP standard may well not.

Strange how you are now getting the TPM message and in all honesty I cannot give you a legitimate answer as to whether you choose Y or N, Y seems logical because the board is presently not doing anything as it is, your call unfortunately.

[PeterGS]

So I pressed Y
And it all booted up successfully!!!
I have no idea, 'cos all is now as built up originally but now works.
Peter

[phillpower2]

Great news and thanks for letting us know (y)

Only thing that I can think of is the CPU not being seated or detected properly, possibly causing a problem with the CPUs memory controller.

Glad you got it sorted and well done.

[PeterGS]

Tha you.
I’ve also learnt lessons about fully checking compatibility not just trusting supplier.
I will sort out these issues when the funds allow.

[phillpower2]

You are welcome

Below is some more of my canned info;
For the best and most stable performance you should where possible purchase a CPU and RAM that have been tested and approved by the motherboard manufacturer, this is referred to as the QVL ( qualified vendors list ) understand though that there are too many products released for them all to be tested so other hardware will be compatible but not proven to be by the manufacturer of the motherboard.
To keep in mind for the future, a CPU must be compatible with a MB whereas the RAM has to be compatible with both the CPU and the MB, this because a MB can be compatible with faster CPUs than the one in your list of parts and MB manufacturers often state RAM speeds that far exceed that which any compatible CPU can handle, this is misleading at the least or dishonest at worst.

[Bruce]

@PeterGS - still going strong?

[PeterGS]

No
I’ve been building computers for many year (since 1979 -UK101 - look it up) and this is the worst set of problems I have ever had.
Turns out that the monitir has a dodgy DP input (I’m using my own 2nd monitor) HDMI is fine.
So got up windows. However - big however.

1. To update to win11, I need secure boot. I go through the process described by ASRock - ASRock > FAQ
2. But then the system just continually boots to BIOS. and the boot priority list has disappeared.

The only way I can get it to boot to windows is to clear/rest bios, but then I am back to step 1 !!

[PeterGS]

All sorted
1 Not only did I have problems changing discs to GPT (more than 3 partitions)
2 Then win11 wanted to reright everything because the languages didn’t match.
3 Tried all sorts of suggested ways - eventually resorted to tweeking the registry!

ANyway thanks for the guidance along the way.
Peter

[Bruce]

Glad it’s sorted, and thanks for the feedback.
Will close as Solved.