CPU LED Red!!

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:24

Hi Guys,

So I've just installed an Raijintek Ereboss in place of my old Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2, and now when I turn on my PC the CPU LED comes on red and stays that way (all other LED's indicate no problems). Nothing coming through monitor, keyboard and mouse stay unlit.

Motherboard is an ASUS M5A97 Evo R2.0 AMD 970

Rest of setup:
EVGA 600W 80 plus bronze PSU
GB Radeon R9 270x WF GPU
FX-8 8320 Black CPU
Kingston 120GB SSHD
2x Intel Patriot 8GB RAM
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB GH

My initial train of thought led me to think that the PSU was not powerful enough to handle the new cooler but i really don't know anything about these things.

Anyways, you guys got any ideas on what may be the problem?

thanks in advance!

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:33

Nope, but i did have to remove the motherboard completely to install the cooler, including removing the RAM sticks. Just tried loosening screws to no avail unfortunately.

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:37

Another symptom: Holding the power button on the front panel doesn't seem to switch the PC off. Sounds like MB issues no?

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:41

Jumped the gun a bit with that last post, as i was turning it on with the front panel haha! Still doesn't turn it off though...

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:52

Gah, tried different RAM sticks in different slots. No difference.

Tried loosening the cooler almost completely, with wiggle room i guess.. then gently rescrew. No difference.

Any last ditch genius ideas?

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 21:55

Is there any harm in trying with no cooler attached whatsoever, just to check if it is a seating issue?

Citizensnipss · 24 Feb 2014 at 22:22

yeah new cooler fans work fine. Just tried completely removing cooler, but didn't check for bent pins whilst at that stage, thought i hadnt got the bloody 4/8 pin all the way in but its fine. next stop i cpu pins i think. Fingers crossed, much love to you fellas, thanks for the help

Citizensnipss · 25 Feb 2014 at 23:01

Just a quick update as i hate it when OP doesn't finish hings like these off. So it would seem as though the issue was in the 8 pin power supply after all. Should have paid more attention to Avenged's first post. Bloody typical!

Thanks for all the help gents.