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RED Light on mobo

Hello!
I was building a pc with my brother for him and he just wanted to upgrade his cpu, ram, mobo and cooler. He chose the 7800x3D and GIGABYTE B650 EAGLE AX. When we were building the pc the red light turned on. We were using the Kingston FURY beast DDR5 6000 2x16gb CL40(PCPARTPIKER link). Pc part picker said it was fine but it didn't work. We didn't have any other DDR5 ram laying around so we just completed the build without ram. Now he needs to buy new RAM and we just want to be sure if the new ones work.
Here are the links. I even double checked from the gigabyte memory support site if it checks out but im asking here just to be sure.
Ram1: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/qxXJ7P/gskill-trident-z5-rgb-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-7200-cl34-memory-f5-7200j3445g16gx2-tz5rk
RAM2: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/CXKKHx/gskill-trident-z5-neo-rgb-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl30-memory-f5-6000j3038f16gx2-tz5nr

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3 minutes ago, mikkkukene said:

When we were building the pc the red light turned on.

 Which one? There's 4 debug LEDs on that motherboard, and the order/amount of time they each spend on determines what's wrong with the system. Those lights turning on is normal for the system turning on as they indicate what part of the POST sequence the board is on, what isn't normal is them staying on one particular light for an extended period of time (longer than a minute). 

 

6 minutes ago, mikkkukene said:

We were using the Kingston FURY beast DDR5 6000 2x16gb CL40(PCPARTPIKER link)

This kit realistically should've been fine. The CAS latency is a bit loose, so performance wouldn't have been amazing, but it should've at least turned on. 

 

7 minutes ago, mikkkukene said:

Don't get the first one, it's too fast. 7200 technically works on that motherboard and CPU, but because of how the AMD memory controller behaves, 7200 is just slower than 6000 CL30 in every way. The second kit is alright, though you can likely get something cheaper that would also be perfectly adequate. 

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12 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

 Which one? There's 4 debug LEDs on that motherboard, and the order/amount of time they each spend on determines what's wrong with the system. Those lights turning on is normal for the system turning on as they indicate what part of the POST sequence the board is on, what isn't normal is them staying on one particular light for an extended period of time (longer than a minute). 

 

The DRAM light. And the PC did not boot.

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