VGA LED On | No POST

[TacticalTurtl]

Hello,

 

I am in a bit of a bind, and don't know what to do at this point. So i am having an issue where my PC will no longer boot. Whenever i do boot or restart my machine the VGA LED comes on and stays on. Then after about 15 - 20 min or so the PC will boot like nothing happened. Just to give a back story I have had this current build for little over a year now and only have recently (2 months ago) upgraded the motherboard and CPU. After i upgraded the two components the PC still worked just fine. Then this morning my PC was working fine i was on it doing some reports for work all is well, then i left the house came back and my display was off. Tried to reboot the PC and that is when i noticed the VGA LED was on. So i though my GPU had died and left to cool off when i came back my PC was on like nothing happened. i was able to login and mess around, then noticed it was running slow and decided to reboot since i had just hard powered it off. Then same thing happened VGA LED on and no POST. I have tried everything i can think of under the sun, still no luck. I will post my PC specs and troubleshooting below. I am not ignorant when it comes to computes i have been in the technology field for about 8 years now building PC's and working with them.

 

TROUBLESHOOTING:

- Restarted the PC

- Cleared the CMOS

- Removed the GPU entirely and plugged HDMI into the motherboard (same error and results btw)

- Plugged the GPU into another PCI slot

- Removed RAM and put one in at a time

- Completely took apart my PC and re-seated every component to make sure everything is seated properly

- Checked all power cables making sure they are secured and seated properly

- Made sure the monitor is on the correct display output

 

PC SPECS:

CPU - Intel I9 9900k

MB - MSI Z390 Pro Carbon AC

RAM - GSkill Rip Jaws 3200 32GB

GPU - MSI 1080 Seahawk

Storage - 2x 500GB Nvme Samsung 960 EVO

PSU - EVGA G3 1000W

Cooling - EK Custom loop for CPU and GPU

 

[Dr_badwolf]

Hey there Tac.Turtle...
Im 99% sure its your CPU.

My logic: 
- PCIe Failure.

Even the onboard (yes, "on chip" technically) iGPU is still on the PCIe bus (just closer, like... in the chip closer)

That would make sense, as BIOS/firmware doesn't init the GPU until after RAM and the CPU. 

If you have an extra chip around, this is the TroubleShooting step id take to confirm
otherwise... my money is on the chip.

- - Pending you remove all the Ram and try to turn it on
and if if beeps (because no ram)... Then you know he board is good until that point. (and pretty good odds that the board is not dead)
 

[TacticalTurtl]

3 minutes ago, Dr_badwolf said:

Hey there Tac.Turtle...
Im 99% sure its your CPU.

My logic: 
- PCIe Failure.

Even the onboard (yes, "on chip" technically) iGPU is still on the PCIe bus (just closer, like... in the chip closer)

That would make sense, as BIOS/firmware doesn't init the GPU until after RAM and the CPU. 

If you have an extra chip around, this is the TroubleShooting step id take to confirm
otherwise... my money is on the chip.

- - Pending you remove all the Ram and try to turn it on
and if if beeps (because no ram)... Then you know he board is good until that point. (and pretty good odds that the board is not dead)
 

Dr_badwolf

 

This is what i was afraid of, it was the only thing i could think of. I did test the ram and it gave an error. So i am reaching out to intel to submit a warranty claim

[Dr_badwolf]

16 minutes ago, TacticalTurtl said:

Dr_badwolf

 

This is what i was afraid of, it was the only thing i could think of. I did test the ram and it gave an error. So i am reaching out to intel to submit a warranty claim

Better a warranty than buying a new chip
- then again, id sell the RMA'd chip and upgrade to one of the new AMDs comming out
o__-