First time build, red lights on motherboard

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First time building a pc, powered it on, all the fans and lights came on but then I got a red led light on the CPU, and then it went off, then a VGA light comes on red, and then finally a BOOT led.

to be honest it’s completely knocked my confidence and now I’m worried about what it’s going to take to fix the potential problems.

I have unplugged and plugged in the GPU cables, the CPU cable, I had an extension on the CPU lead, I tried it with the original cable and still the same problem. I am using the stock AMD fan which already comes with preapplied thermal paste.

Anyone experience this before? What are the most likely causes?
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Does it actually work?
Those are diagnostics lights
They go on and off as the cpu. Gpu, ram and boot device get tested
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The fans power up fine, the GPU fans are working, the ram RGB is lighting up fine but there isn’t a display showing up on my monitor.
 
Mobo should boot up in bios even with out g card. to be fair to see the bios all u need is mobo cpu and ram stick. And working monitor ofcos.


If u put system together and it doesn’t work, you have to go thro process of elimination.


What u do is put absolutely minimum to be able to see the screen lit up.


So start with unplugging everything.

Then plug in Mobo cpu and 1 ram stick . give power to mobo plug monitor in and try power up. U should see bios come up. if not then u must hear beep sounds or maybe some LED lights to say that one of your hardware parts failing.

That’s the bare minimum of building a pc tower.


IF u succeed into bios u can start adding stuff. Make sure your monitor works or something funny.
 
Benass said:
Mobo should boot up in bios even with out g card. to be fair to see the bios all u need is mobo cpu and ram stick. And working monitor ofcos.


If u put system together and it doesn’t work, you have to go thro process of elimination.


What u do is put absolutely minimum to be able to see the screen lit up.


So start with unplugging everything.

Then plug in Mobo cpu and 1 ram stick . give power to mobo plug monitor in and try power up. U should see bios come up. if not then u must hear beep sounds or maybe some LED lights to say that one of your hardware parts failing.

That’s the bare minimum of building a pc tower.


IF u succeed into bios u can start adding stuff. Make sure your monitor works or something funny.
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Would I need to take the motherboard etc out of the case?

so to start I’d take out the GPU, and all the connections, then just plug in the 24 pin, the cpu cable, one ram stick and the GPU? And then see if it starts up from there?
 
BPR said:
Would I need to take the motherboard etc out of the case?

so to start I’d take out the GPU, and all the connections, then just plug in the 24 pin, the cpu cable, one ram stick and the GPU? And then see if it starts up from there?
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If the board had gone through all the lights and just stuck on the boot light, this is perfectly normal on a new system without windows on it, that boot light is telling you, it can't find a boot drive, because you've not put windows on it yet, or you've not configured the bios to tell the of where windows is installed.

Im guessing by your original post that out of those 4 diagnostic LEDs ( CPU, VGA, ram, boot) only the boot light is remaining on, the others went out ?

So the problem lies between your graphics card and your monitor, the fault is not the graphics card itself as the VGA light isn't on, so.......make sure the cable from your monitor is going to your graphics card and not the GPU outputs on the motherboard, if all is good there, then try another cable (hdmi or DP)

A Ryzen 3600 doesn't have any on board graphics, so the hdmi and DVI output on the motherboard are useless, you must use your graphics card, and the graphics card outputs, which card is it ?
 
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Jamin280672 said:
If the board had gone through all the lights and just stuck on the boot light, this is perfectly normal on a new system without windows on it, that boot light is telling you, it can't find a boot drive, because you've not put windows on it yet, or you've not configured the bios to tell the of where windows is installed.

Im guessing by your original post that out of those 4 diagnostic LEDs ( CPU, VGA, ram, boot) only the boot light is remaining on, the others went out ?

So the problem lies between your graphics card and your monitor, the fault is not the graphics card itself as the VGA light isn't on, so.......make sure the cable from your monitor is going to your graphics card and not the GPU outputs on the motherboard, if all is good there, then try another cable (hdmi or DP)

A Ryzen 3600 doesn't have any on board graphics, so the hdmi and DVI output on the motherboard are useless, you must use your graphics card, and the graphics card outputs, which card is it ?
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I will have to go back and double check but I do remember that I press the power on, the fans and lights come on. The CPU red light shines for about 3 seconds, the fans shut off, the light goes off and then it powered up and then the VGA light comes on for about the same time and then the boot light about 5 seconds later.

the GPU I’m using is an MSI RTX 2070 tri frozr
 
BPR said:
I will have to go back and double check but I do remember that I press the power on, the fans and lights come on. The CPU red light shines for about 3 seconds, the fans shut off, the light goes off and then it powered up and then the VGA light comes on for about the same time and then the boot light about 5 seconds later.

the GPU I’m using is an MSI RTX 2070 tri frozr
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Also make sure you are using 2 separate power cables to the graphics card, not 1 cable with 2 connectors on it
 
Jamin280672 said:
Also make sure you are using 2 separate power cables to the graphics card, not 1 cable with 2 connectors on it
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my PSU came with a cable that has 4 separate connectors on it, one 6 pin along with one 2 pin and then another 6x2 pin.
My PSU is semi modular though so that’s all the cables that came with it
 
Jamin280672 said:
If the board had gone through all the lights and just stuck on the boot light, this is perfectly normal on a new system without windows on it, that boot light is telling you, it can't find a boot drive, because you've not put windows on it yet, or you've not configured the bios to tell the of where windows is installed.

Im guessing by your original post that out of those 4 diagnostic LEDs ( CPU, VGA, ram, boot) only the boot light is remaining on, the others went out ?

So the problem lies between your graphics card and your monitor, the fault is not the graphics card itself as the VGA light isn't on, so.......make sure the cable from your monitor is going to your graphics card and not the GPU outputs on the motherboard, if all is good there, then try another cable (hdmi or DP)

A Ryzen 3600 doesn't have any on board graphics, so the hdmi and DVI output on the motherboard are useless, you must use your graphics card, and the graphics card outputs, which card is it ?
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okay so what happens after I turn on power is.

1- fans turn on and RGB from ram lights up etc, and the red light on the CPU stays on for a few seconds and then goes off.

2- the fans go quieter for a second and then pick up speed again, the light goes down to the VGA for a few seconds, turns off and then it goes to the BOOT LED for a few seconds and then all the red lights go off, but there is still a red light behind the mobo, but the individual LED’s for the CPU, VGA or BOOT are on
 
BPR said:
okay so what happens after I turn on power is.

1- fans turn on and RGB from ram lights up etc, and the red light on the CPU stays on for a few seconds and then goes off.

2- the fans go quieter for a second and then pick up speed again, the light goes down to the VGA for a few seconds, turns off and then it goes to the BOOT LED for a few seconds and then all the red lights go off, but there is still a red light behind the mobo, but the individual LED’s for the CPU, VGA or BOOT are on
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Those red lights at the back of the board is just an MSI thing, but you said "but the individual LED’s for the CPU, VGA or BOOT are on" did you mean on, or off ?
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Unusual normally it should also come on
While it tests the ram
Even if it then goes off again
Even though ram rgb is lit just double check the ram securely clicked into place
At both ends of it
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I have pushed them in again to make sure they are in and I’ve powered the computer back up but still no RAM LED. I have took a video of what happens when I turn the PC on and then off again.

https://imgur.com/a/P6orjRl
 
Just a quick one, as it's easily done... You have plugged the video cable into the GPU, not the motherboard sockets?

Assuming it's a yes, have you tried other ports on the GPU? Many have two DP ports, I've had it before where one works and the other doesn't.
 
Also check RAM is in the correct sockets- try the mobo manual if unsure. Usually A1 and B1 but can vary.

EDIT just seen your vid. Try moving both RAM sticks a socket nearer the CPU- so 1st stick in closest socket, then the other two slots back, so the slot nearest the edge of the mobo is unoccupied.

Worth a shot.

ANOTHER EDIT just checked the manual, seems you have the slots correct, assuming there's an empty slot between the two sticks, which is hard to see in your vid.
 
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