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Yellow DRAM light on motherboard.

matei710
By matei710
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Hello, so I just built my new pc and when I tried to boot it, nothing ! Only a yellow DRAM light and the fans spinning. Any idea?

The specs are: 

CPU: Intel i5-9600K

RAM: Corsair Vengeance  LPX

Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z390-A

Cooler: Noctua DH-15 


Thanks.

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Well, unfortunately that DRAM light doesn't signify whether or not the problem is with the RAM or not. I had a mobo do the same thing, swapped out the CPU for an identical one, didn't fix anything, didn't have extra RAM, but then it turned out to be the motherboard that was bad. It was an i3-8100 and H310, so your setup is superior, but the cooler has absolutely nothing to do with it, so that is out of the question at least. 

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If its 2 sticks of memory, maybe take one out. And test with one stick all the 4 RAM slots.

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