Wellington Crab

Talked to ASUS customer service - they said the ram is not on the QVL as I have model number CMK16GX4M2B3000C15W when only CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 is officially supported. The difference is of course the ”W” stands for “White” which is the color of the DRAM heatsinks ... so color coordinators beware? They provided me with a form to fill out for their engineering department.

So I was able to navigate the bios blind and load optimized defaults - or at least I think so as I still have no display but this resolved the issue with the green boot qled (which now turns off less than second after it turns on) and the presumption is now the system is posting and booting up - just the white VGA qled remains on and there is no display with this CPU configuration. Seems very strange. I am still also not seeing the DRAM qled illuminate at all during startup but it does not seem to be preventing the system from booting.

Seems like it really could be.

Regrettably since there is no display and cannot see the bios to load optimized defaults. That does give me an idea however - if I can navigate to the load optimized defaults “blind” perhaps it is worth a shot.

I can confirm it is the CPU light. I do not see the orangish DRAM light illuminate at all - except in that instance I rolled the BIOS back.

Yes - have only tested display cables plugged into the GPU and the power cables are connected to the GPU. No issues with display through the GPU at all when the 3700x is swapped for 2200g.

Yes - with the latest BIOS version the red CPU qled illuminates on power on for approximately 3 seconds. It then turns off and the white VGA qled turns on.

System Spec: Asus x470-I Mini ITX bios vs. 2703 AMD Ryzen 3700x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16gb (2x8) DRAM 3000mhz C15 Samsung 970 EVO 500gb NVMe 2280 (System disk) Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition Corsair SF750 SFX power supply Windows 10 (Latest chipset drivers) I had an unfortunate incident where I damaged the pins on my 2700x when trying to remove the wraith prism cooler in my tiny itx case. If a replacement CPU was to be my fate I figured “what the heck - I’ve got the latest bios on this thing might as well just upgrade to the 3700x”. Well that doesn’t really seem to be panning out so far. I am not sure what to do and am contemplating RMAing the CPU but was hoping maybe you all had some ideas to try: Pretty much the only new components in the system are the 3700x and a corsair H60 AIO. With the the 3700x in the system will turn on all fans spin up on the AIO, GPU and case and the indicator lights on the motherboard turn on but there is not display output. CPU red qled turns on for a moment then off (I am guessing this means the CPU test is passing), then the white VGA qled turns on and stays on followed by the green boot qled turning on and staying on. If the orange DRAM light turns on/off it happens so quickly I haven’t seen it yet. System responds to ctrl-alt-delete and will reboot - but never any display. At this point I tried the usual no post solutions I was aware of. Cleared the CMOS, removed/replaced the battery, removed the 24 pin power cable, tried different ram configurations, unplugged all the drives/NVMe, took the motherboard out of the case to prevent shorts, etc. On the GPU side tried HDMI instead of display port on the GPU. Tried plugging the GPU into my TV instead of my monitor. Tried a different GPU (a 980ti). No luck. Given almost any instance I could find of display issues on an x470 system with this CPU seemed to end happily when the poster realizes they just needed a bios update, I became paranoid that perhaps I didn’t have as recent a bios as I thought and borrowed an AMD 2200g. With this CPU the system booted into windows fine and I was able to confirm the board had the latest BIOS on it (2703). This also to my amateur mind seemed to rule out any possible damage to the CPU slot or issue with any of the components besides the new CPU or some lingering compatibility issue between the CPU and the motherboard? Given the system does seem to get far enough along in the boot tests and being an eternal optimist with a lot of motivation to regain access to their system I was hoping for the latter. I figured while it would seem unlikely to fix a compatibility issue I guess I could try rolling back the motherboard to different bios revisions and see if I got a different result. I rolled back to 2606 - result was the same. I rolled back to 2304 (the very first BIOS to officially support this CPU) and did get a slightly different result. Upon power on the orange dram qled illuminated and stayed illuminated and the system/GPU fans all ran at full speed. The system did not respond to key commands. I tried different dram configurations but could get past this step. Went ahead and “reverted” back to the most current BIOS. I have my RMA label in hand but appreciate any advice or insight - as I can’t shake the feeling I am so close I must be missing some obvious detail. Thanks for reading!