cold boot White Light On Cold Boot

[xanadu1977]

I have a Powerspec (Microcenter house brand) I am getting a white light on the motherboard from a cold boot. Rebooting is fine and restarts less than 10-15 mins from shutdown is fine. I guess the capacitors are still charged...?? This used to work fine even with all of add on's which I did when I got home from the store. Purchased end of September cold boot issues started mid November. Component list below

 

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ***I hate this board and I think this is the problem***

AMD Ryzen 5900x

EVGA RTX-3080lhr FTW ***third choice for problem***

96GB Ram (32GB Neo Forza 16*2, 64GB Crucial Ballistix 32*2. Both XMP to 3200 with same timings

2TB WD Blue NVME (windows)

2TB Samsung 970 evo plus in second m.2 slot (linux, used 99% of the time) 

2TB Inland Premium in 16x/4x electrical expansion card

Cooler Master 240mm aio

Powerspec 750 watt gold ***this is my second choice for the problem***

Asus 2.5Gb nic in 1x slot

2 140mm front fans

1 120mm rear fan

Lian Li Lancool 205 Full Tower Case

 

I am thinking about replacing the motherboard with a MSI MPG X570S Edge MAX WiFi which frees up a 16x/4x electrical slot and will free a 16x/1x since it has three m.2 and 2.5Gb on the board.

 

Any ideas from y'all would be wonderful!

 

[chrome_wheels]

Before you replace the motherboard, try purchasing the same random access memory vendor. You have an unmatched pair of modules. That usually is 50% chance of proper functionality. 96GB's of RAM is rather unusual but it's possible. At this point, why not go for 128GB's? It'll be easier to install 4 similar modules this way. Other than that, looks like a good system setup.

[xanadu1977]

Thanks for the reply there are no memory errors. I should have included (but forgot) that I have tested with the same result pulling out each pair of memory leaving only the neo forza or the crucial with the same result. I've also let memtest86 run 4 cycles overnight and prime95 (linux) overnight as well both show no errors. Further searching from a couple of posts on forums have pointed to bad PSUs. That could be the problem as there is a power splitter on 2 of the 8 pins or the psu just sucked up too much dust. 1000 watt EVGA Supernova platinum PSU's have a $60 rebate right now selling for $189 (even though I only need a 750w). Why not replace both.... ? lol. I can always return it to Amazon  (yes I can be an idiot sometimes!)

[Frizz]

2 hours ago, xanadu1977 said:

I have a Powerspec (Microcenter house brand) I am getting a white light on the motherboard from a cold boot. Rebooting is fine and restarts less than 10-15 mins from shutdown is fine. I guess the capacitors are still charged...?? This used to work fine even with all of add on's which I did when I got home from the store. Purchased end of September cold boot issues started mid November. Component list below

 

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ***I hate this board and I think this is the problem***

AMD Ryzen 5900x

EVGA RTX-3080lhr FTW ***third choice for problem***

96GB Ram (32GB Neo Forza 16*2, 64GB Crucial Ballistix 32*2. Both XMP to 3200 with same timings

2TB WD Blue NVME (windows)

2TB Samsung 970 evo plus in second m.2 slot (linux, used 99% of the time) 

2TB Inland Premium in 16x/4x electrical expansion card

Cooler Master 240mm aio

Powerspec 750 watt gold ***this is my second choice for the problem***

Asus 2.5Gb nic in 1x slot

2 140mm front fans

1 120mm rear fan

Lian Li Lancool 205 Full Tower Case

 

I am thinking about replacing the motherboard with a MSI MPG X570S Edge MAX WiFi which frees up a 16x/4x electrical slot and will free a 16x/1x since it has three m.2 and 2.5Gb on the board.

 

Any ideas from y'all would be wonderful!

 

Are you talking about a QLED light, does it say VGA on it?

 

That basically means that it did not detect a monitor/GPU

 

Question: Do you turn your monitor on before your PC? If not do that first and let me know

[xanadu1977]

Yes I do Frizz. Thanks for replying! Normally I keep my system on 24/7 mostly with Kubuntu 21.10 for work reasons. Yes, it is the vga led that is lit. Monitor is a Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ1A (27" 1440p 170hz) Eco mode is off. 

[xanadu1977]

For anyone else who might be looking at this issue now or in the future. It was resolved by replacing the motherboard and psu. PSU was not a Powerspec 750 gold modular but a High Power 750 gold non modular (I was a lil upset over that). Replaced with EVGA SuperNOVA 120-GP-0850-X1, 850 G+, 80 Plus Gold 850W and MSI MPG X570S Edge MAX WiFi. All is well now and I'm really impressed. A reinstall of Windows would probably be a good idea as it's a tiny bit flaky right now. Linux didn't seem to care one bit that there was a new motherboard.