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My pc won’t turn on and my motherboard flashes a red light

Ben a cava
By Ben a cava
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Anyone know how to get it working the ref light flashes by where my 8 pin cpu power socket is plugged in but it won’t turn on, anyone know what’s wrong 

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 @ 3.2Ghz 

Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC 

RAM: Team Vulcan DDR4 16GB (2x8GB)

GPU: Zoatac Gtx 1070 8GB 

Case: CoolerMaster Masterbox Lite 5 RGB

Storage: 2TB Toshiba HDD, 120GB WD Green SSD 

PSU: Gigabyte P650B 

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Check you motherboard manual to see what that light is for. On a lot of MSI boards they have EZ debug LED's that light up for either ram, cpu, vga. Some boards also have a light for things like xmp being enabled, or to show which bios chip it is running off of if it has multiple. I would first try clearing your CMOS and see if that helps at all. Also double check all you cables to make sure one did not come lose or anything like that

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