"Boot" light wont go away

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A couple of days ago I built a brand new PC. Got it up and running, bios menu ready to install windows, before doing so I changed the setting on bios for RAM to D.O.C.P. saved and reset, boot light appeared and nothing showed on screen.

I moved RAM to different slots
I removed the CMOS battery
I linked out the CLRTC, restarted whilst pressing <DEL>
Removed my HDD
Removed extension cables
Plugged my HDMI into my Mobo

Nothing works.

To make matters worse i bought a brand new Mobo thinking the first one was faulty and to my dismay, the exact same problem with the new mobo which means it probably wasnt the settings I changed in bios originally? Cause I havent even got that far with this mobo.

Random - The left side fan on my Aorus RTX 3060, it is running but its RGB lights havent turned on once since Ive been switching on and off, should I be worried about that?

Specs:-
Mobo - Rog Strix B550-F
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 4TB
SSD - Crucial P2 1TB
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB
CPU - Ryzen 5 3600
GPU - Aorus RTX 3060
PSU - Corsair RM850x
LC - Rog Strix 240

Please help :(

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When I plug my HDMI into my Mobo, the VGA light comes up as well. I should be able to run my PC without plugging into my GPU no?
 
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The Ryzen chips don't have onboard graphics unless they are a G model, so that is why plugging HDMI into your motherboard does nothing.

When I was first doing this build (X570F-Gaming) with a 3900XT/2080Ti, I had problems with VGA booting (light getting stuck on VGA on mobo). Just a black screen. Believe it or not what worked was resetting the mobo with the two metal pins and letting it boot without a graphics card in. Then after a minute powering it off. Plug graphics card in and off it went. I think the other thing I tried was booting with monitor powered off, then powering it on.

I don't know if its early BIOS versions for some AMD motherboards or something but there seems to be some sort of handshake issue with monitors and the graphics card. Resulting in some boots getting stuck on a neverending VGA loop. I was using display port but tried HDMI as well.

Once you get it back up and running get your BIOS updated before you tinker with BIOS settings. Don't stress, I don't think anything is wrong, just whatever janky nonsense goes on with the display signal to the monitor. I had the exact same issue.
 
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I assume you're connecting the GPU to a monitor? Try connecting the PC to a TV instead and see if it works.

I experienced a similar issue when I upgraded to my B550-E, put everything together, double checked everything only to constantly get no display regradless of display connection used. In the end my issue turned out to be my 1080Ti at the time was running an older firmware version. I connected the PC to my TV and instantly got a display and from there I was able to install Windows and update the GPU firmware. After that I connected the PC back to my LG monitor and I had no issues. I spent a good few hours troubleshooting/raging :p

Obviously you've got a RTX 3060 so much newer than my 1080Ti was but it would be worth trying a TV to see if you get any sort of output.
 
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I assume you're connecting the GPU to a monitor? Try connecting the PC to a TV instead and see if it works.

I experienced a similar issue when I upgraded to my B550-E, put everything together, double checked everything only to constantly get no display regradless of display connection used. In the end my issue turned out to be my 1080Ti at the time was running an older firmware version. I connected the PC to my TV and instantly got a display and from there I was able to install Windows and update the GPU firmware. After that I connected the PC back to my LG monitor and I had no issues. I spent a good few hours troubleshooting/raging :p

Obviously you've got a RTX 3060 so much newer than my 1080Ti was but it would be worth trying a TV to see if you get any sort of output.
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So this worked! I have the display up on my TV right now.. but the boot light is still there. Now Im scared to touch anything incase I lose it again

I'll try to install windows again and see what happens.
 
ACD said:
Thanks! Ill get onto that asap. I'm still not happy about not all the lights being on my GPU and there being a "PU fan error" appear. I cant read the first letter because the display on my screen wont change scale.
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The BIOS update might fix some jank.

One other question, the Aorus RTX 3060 is it plugged in normally (horizontally)? You aren't using a riser cable and doing vertical GPU are you? Just asking as some riser cables seem to struggle on the new Nvidia cards with PCIE 4.0 support unless you manually change the PCIE slot in your BIOS off auto and put it on PCIE 3.0.

The 4.0 PCIE riser cables cost a lot more than the 3.0 cables.
 
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