VGA Light on B560m Aorus Elite

simonk · 25 Nov 2021 at 15:23

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read and assist it is greatly appreciated.

I have built a little gaming rig for my nephew for christmas with the following:

- Aorus B560m elite
- i5 11400
- 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz
- samsung 980 ssd
- Corsair 650 PSU
- Due to the terrible state of affairs in the GPU market; my old radeon 280 for now

After piecing everything together I get a red light signally `vga` on the Aorus B560, after a little digging apparently I may need to enter the bios here to disable some CSM feature in order for my older AMD GPU to actually work? Anyone familiar with that in particular? the problem is I don't have another GPU i can use in order to get a display to get in to do that (or see whatever else is going on)... catch 22 I guess? No onboard graphics either in that i5 either sadly).

Does that ring any bells? I may have to go on the hunt for someone locally to borrow their nvidia card if so!

mickyflinn · 25 Nov 2021 at 15:29

11400 does have onboard graphics the 11400f dosent is it the f varient ?

If so your going to have to borrow a gpu.

simonk · 25 Nov 2021 at 15:30

@mickyflinn it is indeed the f, argh - does this sound like a familiar issue tho - if i can find a 970 off a friend to borrow; should in theory work?

mickyflinn · 25 Nov 2021 at 15:37

simonk said:
@mickyflinn it is indeed the f, argh - does this sound like a familiar issue tho - if i can find a 970 off a friend to borrow; should in theory work?

Should do yes .

The 280 is old and has something do with legacy support which needs to be enabled in the bios.

simonk · 25 Nov 2021 at 16:01

Alright thanks, bringing the rig to his on Sunday to sort it out

mickyflinn · 25 Nov 2021 at 16:09

simonk said:
Alright thanks, bringing the rig to his on Sunday to sort it out

Should be fine , see if he will sell you the 970 still a great gpu for 1080p , mates rates of course.