PC stopped displaying after enabling XMP on first boot – B550M AORUS ELITE AX

I just built my first PC and I'm having a weird issue.

Specs:

  • Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE AX Rev. 1.4
  • Ryzen 7 5700X
  • RX 9060 XT 16GB
  • 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-3200
  • 750W PSU

The PC booted perfectly on the first attempt and I managed to get into BIOS. I enabled XMP for the RAM, saved and exited, and since then I've had no display. I never go to installing windows, I’ve just been trying to fix this.

The PC powers on normally, fans/RGB work, but the monitor stays completely black. GPU is connected directly to the monitor.

I've tried:

  • Clearing CMOS (battery + CMOS pins)
  • Both RAM sticks individually and together
  • One stick in A2 / both in A2+B2
  • DisplayPort and HDMI
  • Reseating the GPU
  • Checking the 24-pin and CPU 8-pin power
  • Booting with no RAM installed — still powers on but no display

I also used Q-Flash Plus with the correct BIOS for Rev. 1.4. The QFLED blinked during the process and eventually stopped, but I still have no display afterward.

The PC has never booted into Windows — the only successful boot was the initial BIOS screen before enabling XMP.

The motherboard doesn't have CPU/DRAM/VGA diagnostic LEDs, and I don't have a motherboard speaker for beep codes.

Could enabling XMP have caused this, and what would you try next? I'm wondering if it's still a RAM/POST issue or possibly something else.

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

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