Asus B650E-I Non-start

[rich998a]

That's weird, Jamin. Just read your exploits, but I can see you at some point in the near future swapping the CPUs over again. Be interesting to see what happens.

 

[redtaker]

SORTED....

Well, half sorted anyway, but it looks like Motherboard and PSU are working now.

This morning I took everything apart again. Left the MB on the case but removed CPU cooler block and opened the CPU locking mechanism on the board. Everything looked fine in there, Thermal paste was adequate and evenly spread.

Now, I also removed the main M.2 drive on the board and left the other in place on the back of the Motherboard. I'm intending to use the one at the back to hold games, and the one at the front to hold the OS, productivity software and work things. Now, on moving this M.2 I got an illuminated case button and the rear fan suddenly breathed into life. I stopped everything and then connected the key bits up (the CPU pump wasn't connected at the time) so connected these up. The Q-LED shows a check being done cycling through the 4 LEDs, and it is now holding White and Green.

I'll have to revisit this later today, but at least we got as far as this.

Hi ! I exactly have the same problem, occurred after I added a second SSD to the board. Everything was fine before and now no qled. I tried everything you mentioned.
Do you have any more advice on what should I do ? It's been almost a week trying to fix my board :/ and you thread was relieving when I saw you managed to get it fonctional again.

Thank you