TrueSonic45

Video of boot failure Video of BIOS flash attempt

I know the motherboard is getting power, so I removed the CPU PWR1&2 to see if I'd get the same results. And I did. I powered on the PC without CPU PWR 1&2 and the motherboard, RAM RGB and the remote LCD all came on like normal, but no fans, no GPU power, nothing else. No boot. No display. NO error LEDS, nothing. Plugged CPU PWR 1&2 back in, still nothing. Just motherboard activity, RAM sticks glow up and hit rainbow cycle, absolutely nothing else powers on. I swapped to the second GODLIKE, same thing. Swapped power supplies on both motherboards, same thing. Flash BIOS does nothing. Clear CMOS does nothing

So it's 10am. I downloaded the BIOS from MSI support, formatted USB drive fat32 and renamed the BIOS file to MSI.COM as instructed. Cleared CMOS, plugged in USB to flash port, powered up PSU, got white LED for power on bottom of the board, boards remote LCD went through animation cycle, then I pressed the Flash BIOS button. Flash BIOS button lit up, blinked twice. The light on the USB stick came on, then nothing. The BIOS button on the board went dark. Light on the USB stick started going through what looks like an idle cycle. I let it sit for 10 mins. Nothing. The BIOS light never came back on, no activity at all, and the USB stick is absolutely just idle. I recorded two videos, I'll upload. I really hope someone smarter than me can go "Ah, there's your problem. You didn't do the thing-a-majig with the whatcha-ma-call-it" I I already ordered my 13900K and I plan on getting the 4090. If I can't get this system to turn on by then, I'm really screwed. I have NO idea what's wrong EDIT: I'm gonna call MSI support and see what they can do in the mean time

That's what I was expecting too, man. I didn't throw anything crazy in here, just a 12th gen to prep for Raptor Lake. I was expecting it to just work out the box I can't see why it wouldn't, bios and all. Bro, when I hooked up the power supply and the mobo did the cool animation on the screen, dragon roar, and the Power light came on, I was ready to get to work. Hit that power button and was treated to an RGB show on my ram and nothing else. Even if something was wrong, why wouldn't the fans spin or cooler pump turn on? GPU does nothing too. PSU fan doesn't spin. Whatever issue it is, BOTH boards did the same thing, across TWO power supplies. Imma flash this bios later today and see what's up. None of this stuff is used, all brand new. By the way I really REALLY appreciate you taking the time to help me, man.

Hey, I do have a concern. Since none of the fans are spinning up and the cooler pump doesn't run, if it takes 5 mins to update the BIOS using the bios button, what will keep my CPU cool during this process? The only thing that turns on is the RAM RGB lights. I have no active cooling at all. Nothing else turns on. Will my CPU be fine during the 5-7 mins it takes to update my BIOS using USB?

I bought it for my 13900K I pre-ordered, and I like MSI products, the I/O is great, and I like the LCD device with it. I know 13900K is backwards compatible with Z690, but I also know that it will probably need a bios update to support Raptor Lake, so I got the 12600K to simply boot and flash the board in preparation for Raptor Lake. I'll download a bios and try flashing the board. If that doesn't work, and at this point I truly don't see why not, I can't figure out what is wrong. I have two of them and the exact same issue. I should buy another mobo to test my DDR5, but both sticks are brand new. And what is the chances of BOTH boards having busted mem controllers? It's insane. But the fact that I've run into the exact issue on two boards does my head in. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll flash in the morning. I'm open to any and all suggestions

So I'm building a new PC. I build a new PC every 2 years, for the last 10 years. I'd like to think I've gotten pretty good at this. I decided to build a 12600K build using the MSI Z690 Godlike. It takes 2 hours to put together, everything hooked up, watercolor, DDR5 Ram in, 1200W PSU, clear CMOS. I plug it in, and the boards power white indicator comes on, and the LCD remote goes through the godlike animation with the roaring sound and all. Then it goes blank. I hit the power button. Nothing. But the RAM LEDs come on. That's it. No error LED. No display on the little remote device. No display on monitor, no fans, GPU doesn't spin up, PSU fan doesn't spin up, liquid cooler doesn't turn on. Absolutely nothing. Just the white LED indicating power on the motherboard. RAM going through rainbow cycle. And absolutely nothing else. I cleared CMOS many times, swapped power supplies. Same results. I even bought a SECOND Godlike, yes, TWO of them, with the EXACT same result. I don't get any error LEDS. No HDD error, no VGA error, no CPU error and no RAM error. Absolutely nothing. Just RGB cycle on RAM and the white LED on the board indicating power input. I am absolutely at my wit's end. I googled everywhere, but go figure, most people have never even owned this motherboard, so not much help anywhere. Whenever I turn off the PSU and turn it back on, the little remote comes on, completes its animation, then it turns off. The white LED indicating power is on the entire time. Please guys, you're all I have left. Specs: Case: Segotep Phoenix T-1 EATX Motherboard: MSI Meg Z690 GODLIKE (x2) CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K PSU: Corsair HX 1200W Platnium Cooler: MSI MAG coreliquid C360 RAM: Corsair Dominator 64GB (x2 32GB) DDR5 5200 GPU: MSI RTX2080

Same scaling, CPU usage is not as high, 70-80% fluctuating.

But when I remove 1 GPU and play, I get great performance.

Agree'd but WHY is my CPU shooting to 100%?? Is it a driver thing? Even with NOTHING else open, my 7700K starts KILLING itself.

Ran BF1 one more time. Got 45-59FPS. CPU@100%, BOTH GPU's idled at 39%! What the hell? Are my GPU's SLEEPING?

Yeah, I'm going to run some Engine Benchmarks, and watcg GPU performance, because I'm POSITIVE my GPU's are nowhere NEAR 90% usage when gaming. What the? Thats horrible. i understand that it will throttle down to protect itself from over heating but 40c is too low for that, especially when I'm knocking 65-70c.

Ran some benchmarks today. I swapped the GPU slots and ran BF1 with one GPU at 1080@100Hz. Got a solid 98-100FPS, with a low of 95FPS, the whole time. GPU Temps sat at around 55C. Okay, cool. Put in the other GPU, SLI'd it. Played at the same settings. Got a solid.. 80-100FPS with a low of 75FPS. It stuttered one time to a crippling 23FPS, but only for half a second, before settling at 85-95FPS. GPU temp for #1 GPU was around 63-68C, #2 GPU sat at a smooth 45-55C. I think I'm thermal throttling due to the close proximity of the GPU's. They are pretty much right on top of each other, with the bottom GPU fairing better temps due to not having its fans being obstructed.. CPU usage was between 80-100 for both benchmarks(Non SLI, single GPU setup and the 2 GPU SLI setup), and GPU fans were set to Max in Afterburner the whole time.

I'll look into what servers I'm being put on. If I am being auto queued into foreign servers, it might have something to do with it. Both GPU's work fine, but I'm going to switch the 2nd GPU into the first slot. I don't know how my CPU could bottleneck my GPU as I'm sure the i7-7700K can more than handle an SLI setup. I do plan on getting a 1080ti next week. I'm thinking of getting two to SLI them as well, but I'm going to get a Z370 motherboard and get the i7-8700K. Still, is there a correlation with BF1, bad SLI performance and Max CPU usage? Is that game not optimised for SLI?

Yes I do. Disabled DX12 as well.