No Booty - No Bias

Greeting Posters:

Not sure this is the right the right sub-forum for this post.

My mother board decided to retire, thus I remodeled the rig. A new mama board, CPU, GPU,
and RAM. $660 bucks in new parts. The last installation was GPU. All went well, but the trip
to a theme park quickly turned into Nightmare on Elm Street.

It is my understanding dat a video card is basically a plug and play. This turned into a plug
and pain. Yes, without the latest driver, its functionality is reduced, but operational. As I fired up
the PC, it would simply do nothing, no boot, no BIOS. I moved the card to a PCIE-3 slot with the
same results. [NVIDIA - Gigabite Geforce RTX 3050 Windforce] [the card has no power plugs]

I repeated this process three times, with both the old and new GPU resulting in failure. Den I
noticed I had not plugged the two PCI-E power plugs into the old video card [NVIDIA RTX 560].
With power to the old card, the system booted and functioned normally !

Now I did a doltish thing and download the wong driver [570.XXX i386] which is not 64 bit. I was able to
reach the drive manager, which shows five or six new drivers, with the old driver ! [390.XXX] removed.
I went into the terminal again and checked LSPCI and LOSMOD/GREP NVIDIA and it indicated no
drivers present ! And when I restart the rig, with the old card, it to would not boot nor BIOS.

Of course, the old card was driverless. [Uber would not take my calls]]

The new video card only requires 70 watts to operate. So the question to the board, is the mama board
failing to provide enough power to the PCIE-4 slot or is the new GPU defective?

This has been quite a frustrating, but learning process and very time consuming, in the order of
some ten to twelve hours. I have never had a hardware issue this bad. Time for Hardware Hank?

I invite the sages of computer for their extended expertise. Thank you most kindly !

MO/BO - MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk; CPU - AMD Ryzen 5500; GPU - GIGABITE Geforce RTX 3050 Windforce; RAM - G. Skill Trident Z NEO DDR-4 3200; OS - Linux Minty 21.1

 

[SOLVED] Cleared CMOS and the rig booted and even allow me into the BIAS.