I recently bought the ryzen 7 5700x3d to upgrade my current ryzen 7 3700x. I have a rtx 2060, b450 tomahawk max, rm650 psu, and 16gb ddr4 ram 3200mhz (Corsair vengeance pro rgb 2x8gb).
When I first intially installed the new cpu, everything worked fine. Booted into the pc, ran stress tests and games with no issues, and both the BIOS and pc recognized the new 5700x3d.
I then restarted my PC, and ever since then, I have been stuck in a boot loop with this new CPU. I tried everything to fix it. Reseating pc parts, 1 ram stick, updating bios, resetting cmos, etc.
I then decided to put my old CPU in hopes that the issue was the CPU. After putting my old cpu in, everything worked as normal. Booted into PC.
I then clean installed windows 11 again just incase it was a windows issue. I reset CMOS too. I then put my new 5700x3d in to see if the issue still happens with all these fixes I did, and nothing worked. It still boot loops.
This boot loop makes it so that I can only enter BIOS with the new CPU in (BIOS does recognize the new CPU). However, once it tries booting into anything such as windows on my ssd or windows on a usb with the creation tool, it just restarts, making an endless cycle of restarting.
I have put the cpu in 3 times with various troubleshooting techniques, and each time the issue is still there. I have a strong feeling it is a faulty CPU.
I refunded the CPU and bought it again in hopes it being defective.
The most tricky part is that it first worked perfectly (ran stress tests and games) until I restarted my PC.
What do you guys think? What should I do to ensure that when I receive the CPU again, this issue won't happen?
