Gigabyte AB350M-GAMING 3 BIOS version using a RYZEN 5 1600 CPU

nb70

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I am an experienced PC builder when using INTEL based CPUs but, I'm relatively new to these Ryzen CPUs and I'm fining it increasingly frustrating!
Hopefully I can find some assistance on here??

I'm using a Gigabyte AB350M-gaming 3 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, the graphics card, DDR4 RAM and power supply are all high end and all recommended & compatible with each other (I checked all these parts from the AMD RYZEN recommended lists).
The problem I have is that on power-up the fans on the power supply, graphics card and cpu all start up and that is all that happens, no beep, no posting. nothing.
I have triede all the recommendations from breadboarding to using ony one DDR4 memeory and I still get nothing.
I have even exchanged the Motherboard and CPU and I still get nothing.

I have posted on here a few times for guidance (hence testing the recommendations from the feedback) but now I'm being led to believe the Motherboard doesn't have the correct BIOS version. Is there a way that I can find out what version of BIOS bearing in mind that I cannot power it up to find out?
I have to say too that the support on this issue from Gigabyte has been beyond poor!! One would think they could tell you from the serial number or similar but it seems that would be too easy.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
 
Then board, or CPU does not work. Try testing different power supply, if possible. Try also clearing the CMOS (unplug the power cord and remove the CMOS battery for a minute) and then testing for beeps with only CPU and CPU cooler installed, both 24 and 8 pin power cables connected.
 

nb70

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I'll try your suggestions and get back to you shortly...
It'll be frustrating though if the board or CPU have failed, this was my first thought so I exchanged them both just in case, these replacement ones have given the same results.