Question: Red light, then orange light - no boot?
Question: Red light, then orange light - no boot?
Hey! So, turned off, went out, came back, pc didnt turn back on.
At first it was stuck in orange light, no boot, no video. Then, forced shutdown and tried turning it on, it booted 'normally', to be sure I turned it off and sadly it never turned on again. First it flicked a Red light and immediately turned off, then on automatically, then the Red light flick, off, on, off, on all very fast ad infinitum. I removed the RAM sticks, cleaned contacts, tried again. Now it goes Red very fast into Orange, stays for 3-4 seconds and no light. External lights and all fans turn on ok, but no boot, no video. Tried swapping slots, one ram, other older ram, no ram whatsoever, but the same happens: red > orange > no light.
Mbd: Asus Prime B560M-A
GPU: RTX 3060
CPU: i5-11600kf
Drives: 2 x kingston SSDs (240Gb and 1Tb)
RAM: 2 x 16 GB ddr4 Risemode
OS: Windows 10
Things Ive done so far:
- everything possible with ram sticks
- unplugged pcie and gpu, cleaned, plugged back
- tried hdmi on mobo rather than gpu
- plugged and unplugged cpu cables
- plugged and unplugged mobo cables
Last thing I did was upgrade from 16 to 32Gbs Ram to better run servers. But even putting older ram sticks or leaving all slots empty, results re unchanged. I'm really stumped. I didnt do a cmos clear cause I dont know how exactly and am afraid of doing more harm than good.
Edit:
now the orange light is constant and only goes away if I forcefully shutdown the PC.
which psu are you using?
perform a basic setup
motherboard, 1 ram in dimm slot a2, psu, gpu, all power connectors connected, monitor linked to gpu, keyboard
if this doesn't display the bios screen, reset the bios using the clrcmos jumper (you're safe to reset the bios)
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I attempted to clear CMOS, but it managed to bypass the orange light yet still didn’t work. There was no visible light afterward. My PSU is a Corsair CX650. Update: A technician performed a troubleshooting session and pointed to the motherboard as the issue, mentioning problems with RAM, faulty slots, etc. I replaced it with another B560 from MSI, but the problem remains unchanged. I’m confused about how this could be happening.
which new motherboard are you running?
take a few shots of your minimum configuration and share them on imgur.com or something similar, then post the links.
your cpu lacks an integrated graphics chip, so the motherboard's video ports won't function. use your gpu and connect the video cable directly to it.
Unfortunately, I can't do it at the moment. However, my new motherboard is an MSI B560M Pro-E. I was trying to get something similar to my previous one.