Red CPU ez debug led, no display

[sammoss05]

so this has happened on an off, i go to turn on my computer, the power button stays off but everything else in the computer boots up. there is no display on my monitor and i have a red light next to CPU on the ex debug light so i assume it’s something to do with that. i looks around on the internet and it says my bios firmware isn’t up to date, but how am i supposed to check that when i have no display on my what computer is doing, please help

[Sima01]

What motherboard do you have, and what CPU? Cmon, we are not wizards, please provide that information. Your motherboard box could give use an information about your current BIOS, for example B550 rev 1.2 and with that information we could find your BIOS information. Lets start from that.

[sammoss05]

24 minutes ago, Sima01 said:

What motherboard do you have, and what CPU? Cmon, we are not wizards, please provide that information. Your motherboard box could give use an information about your current BIOS, for example B550 rev 1.2 and with that information we could find your BIOS information. Lets start from that.

hi my apologies, i was gifted this computer so i don’t have any boxes. but i believe my motherboard is a Z170A Sliplus, (that’s what it says in the motherboard) and my cpu is a GTX 1080.

[Sima01]

2 hours ago, sammoss05 said:

hi my apologies, i was gifted this computer so i don’t have any boxes. but i believe my motherboard is a Z170A Sliplus, (that’s what it says in the motherboard) and my cpu is a GTX 1080.

Thats a GPU not CPU. Open up a task manager if you're using windows, then performance tab, and you will see a CPU. If you're using Ubuntu for example you can use this command in terminal

cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep 'name'| uniq

As far as I know Intel didn't have much BIOS issues like Ryzen where you need to update it.

You can check for supported CPU list, but provide me with the CPU infromation when you can https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z170A-SLI-PLUS/support#cpu

[Damocles Ti]

3 minutes ago, Sima01 said:

Open up a task manager if you're using windows, then performance tab, and you will see a CPU

he cant even POST...

@sammoss05I'd recommend trying to reset CMOS by turning the PC off, turning the power supply off (the O side is down rather than the | side), remove the button battery on the motherboard, press and hold the power button for 10 seconds, then put the battery back in, power up the power supply again, and power up the computer.

If that doesn't work, start changing the ram sticks order/combination/permutation to isolate for any bad sticks. The CPU LED can be caused by a dead CPU or dead memory channels.

[Sima01]

1 hour ago, Damocles Ti said:

he cant even POST...

@sammoss05I'd recommend trying to reset CMOS by turning the PC off, turning the power supply off (the O side is down rather than the | side), remove the button battery on the motherboard, press and hold the power button for 10 seconds, then put the battery back in, power up the power supply again, and power up the computer.

If that doesn't work, start changing the ram sticks order/combination/permutation to isolate for any bad sticks. The CPU LED can be caused by a dead CPU or dead memory channels.

Oh well, im just  tired, my fault.

[sammoss05]

3 hours ago, Sima01 said:

Thats a GPU not CPU. Open up a task manager if you're using windows, then performance tab, and you will see a CPU. If you're using Ubuntu for example you can use this command in terminal

cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep 'name'| uniq

As far as I know Intel didn't have much BIOS issues like Ryzen where you need to update it.

You can check for supported CPU list, but provide me with the CPU infromation when you can https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z170A-SLI-PLUS/support#cpu

so my computer is showing display again. i tried to reset CMOS but idek if i did it or even did it right lol but i tried. the cpu i have is the intel core i5-6600k

[Sima01]

15 hours ago, sammoss05 said:

so my computer is showing display again. i tried to reset CMOS but idek if i did it or even did it right lol but i tried. the cpu i have is the intel core i5-6600k

Thats great to hear, well just unplug everything, remove CMOS battery for few minutes, return it and thats it. Great that it works again