I recently moved to NYC and I shipped my PC through UPS. When I tried to turn it on a got an orange light, and opened up the PC to see my RAM had come loose, put those back in hoping that would fix it. But now I’m getting the orange light for a second, then a red light, and then it turns off and then a white light comes on. Anyone have any ideas? I’m pretty new to this stuff and I have no idea what to do.
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My pc booting and no display, for the first some time and randomly the problem will accure, now is permenant
What I have tried so far is getting a new motherboard and reseated my ram and gpu and my cpu I need help on figuring out what’s the problem. I also got a psu tester and flying colors
I recently built a new PC with the following specs:
Ryzen 7700x
DDR 5 5600 RAM
4070Ti
TUF B650 Plus
When I saw a white LED light up on the motherboard (VGA) while gaming today I was unsure.
If you search this on Google, the first clues are defective hardware. This of course scared me since I just assembled the PC last week.
After a bit of troubleshooting and checking to see if the video card was plugged in well, I came up with simply changing the connector from Displayport to HDMI.
After changing to HDMI, the white LED stopped glowing.
What seems to have caused the problem:
My display can only do Displayport 1.2a, while the 4070Ti outputs DP 1.4a. Apparently, this then leads to feedback that causes the white LED to light up.
I just wanted to write this here so I can potentially help other people with the same problem in case they are also looking on Google for a solution.
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Just a little update 3 years in:
It seems like it is down to the communication between the monitor and PC - if the monitor doesn't answer quick enough, then the system registers the VGA "error" and the light comes on. So make sure your monitor is on - this should solve the problem.
Hello,
I wanted to share this with everyone as I know I'm not the only one who experienced this issue. Previous topics suggested a faulty motherboard and/or CPU - This is not the case.
[Issue]
After 5 months of use, my B450-e motherboard failed to boot. When the power button is pressed, the fans spin and RGB lights up as it should. No display is outputted, via DP (Display Port) or HDMI.
When in this state, the motherboard shows a white LED saying there is a VGA issue. Browsing the internet will say to RMA your Motherboard or CPU, but this likely is not needed. Reseating and swapping out your GPU will not fix the issue.
[Fix]
This is what you are all reading this post for. The fix is simple. Power off your machine and place the GPU in a different PCI slot. Power your machine back on. You should now get a display saying your BIOS settings had been changed. Power your machine back off and put your GPU back into your desired slot. Your machine will again prompt that the BIOS setting have changed (they get reset so you need to input your OC and XMP settings). Your machine will now boot!
NOTE: This fixed the issue on my B450-e board and someone X570 board - Both displayed the same issues.
To finish off, this is my last Asus product. Their support is atrocious here in the UK and they refused to RMA my product even though their site says I had 2.5 year of warranty left as I received the product as a gift and didn't know where it was purchased from. No other company I have dealt with has been like this, there wasn't even any question about whether the item was within warranty due to its age.
Sorry Asus, this is the last product of yours I am buying. I hope this gains enough traction for you to change your ways.