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I have yet to build a computer that didn't POST on first boot, with one minor exception: My cousin's Ryzen 5600 machine. I built that in a Fractal Meshify 2 Mini, which has a front IO reset button, and I wired the Reset and the Power buttons backwards. I pushed the power button, nothing. I pushed the Reset button, it booted to the BIOS setup.

I THOUGHT I had a problem with my uncle's computer; but no, the monitor I was testing with chose to die during first POST. That monitor is behind three different trees now.