Power LED blinking while PC working fine
Hi guys, replying to myself as I think I figured it out, it's caused by my monitor beeing too slow and the motherboard not detecting a display.
My monitor is an MSI Optix G241 connected via Display Port to my GPU (RTX 4070) and the thing is that it is quite slow to wake from sleep when there is a video signal.
This has always been the case but it doesn't bother me at all (it takes 3-5 seconds sometimes to detect the signal).
Recently I changed my setup, I went from dual monitor with the MSI monitor and another old LCD one (connected in HDMI and using an HDMI to DVI adapter) to just the MSI.
Before, the BIOS POST screen would show up on my LCD monitor because it is fast to wake from sleep and then, when Windows would boot, the primary display would switch to the MSI monitor.
Now that I just have the MSI monitor plugged in, the motherboard thinks that I have no monitor connected as it is too slow to wake from sleep when booting the computer.
This makes the power LED blink slowly, indicating a VGA problem, but then the computer boots into Windows and works fine because the monitor finally woke up.
Not sure how I will fix it, maybe increase the POST screen time, I'll follow up if I have a fix.

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