VGA light

[Wannes Aneca]

Hello,
I recently built a new pc but didn't buy a new video card because I had one lying around, but now I can't get into the bios because the vga light is on, but if I just let it boot into windows it works fine but the vga light is still on.
Does anyone know what this could be?
Specs:
I7 14700F
32GB corsair vengeance 6400 MT/s
B760 AURUS ELITE AX
MSI Gaming X GTX 1050Ti

850W Sharkoon PSU

[Sawa Takahashi]

Going into BIOS can be challenging sometimes on modern systems. Please read the instructions and execute carefully. If you still can't boot into BIOS, try removing all drives and it should boot into BIOS since there will be no OS installed.

 

Other things you can try is clearing the CMOS memory.

Since your motherboard behaves weirdly, you can also try flashing a new BIOS (the most recent stable version) and then clear the CMOS  memory.

Hope that helps

[Wannes Aneca]

On 1/3/2025 at 7:23 PM, Sawa Takahashi said:

Going into BIOS can be challenging sometimes on modern systems. Please read the instructions and execute carefully. If you still can't boot into BIOS, try removing all drives and it should boot into BIOS since there will be no OS installed.

 

Other things you can try is clearing the CMOS memory.

Since your motherboard behaves weirdly, you can also try flashing a new BIOS (the most recent stable version) and then clear the CMOS  memory.

Hope that helps

Thanks for the tip, now I can get into the bios after the CMOS reset, but the VGA light is still on when I'm in the bios and windows, and I still don't see the boot screen.
I also found another problem, my cpu clocks down to 2.75GHz when I run a multicore stress test and sometimes it just shuts down when starting a game or in the middle of a normal task but it keeps under 50°C.

 

[Sawa Takahashi]

40 minutes ago, BrunoPower said:

Thanks for the tip, now I can get into the bios after the CMOS reset

No problem  That's good news too.

40 minutes ago, BrunoPower said:

but the VGA light is still on when I'm in the bios and windows, and I still don't see the boot screen.

The VGA light may be just a glitch if your computer boots and outputs video. Which boot screen are you talking about ? If that's the Windows one, it does not really matter because it can be deactivated anyway.

42 minutes ago, BrunoPower said:

I also found another problem, my cpu clocks down to 2.75GHz when I run a multicore stress test and sometimes it just shuts down when starting a game or in the middle of a normal task but it keeps under 50°C.

This is more of concern. It seems there is something wrong with the CPU cooling. As if the cooler is touching just one side of the CPU and when you stress test, some cores jump in temperature but the CPU as a whole is still cool enough. Maybe try reseating the CPU cooler.

I think HWinfo64 can read more temperature sensors than Windows. If you try running HWinfo64 while doing Cinebench, maybe you'll see what goes wrong.

Good luck !

[Wannes Aneca]

19 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

No problem  That's good news too.

The VGA light may be just a glitch if your computer boots and outputs video. Which boot screen are you talking about ? If that's the Windows one, it does not really matter because it can be deactivated anyway.

It is the screen that shows the bios key, bootmenu key and q-flash key, and also the windows bootscreen
 

 

19 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

This is more of concern. It seems there is something wrong with the CPU cooling. As if the cooler is touching just one side of the CPU and when you stress test, some cores jump in temperature but the CPU as a whole is still cool enough. Maybe try reseating the CPU cooler.

I think HWinfo64 can read more temperature sensors than Windows. If you try running HWinfo64 while doing Cinebench, maybe you'll see what goes wrong.

Good luck !

I already use HWinfo 64 for the temperatures, it first boosts to 250W or 100W and than it goes down to 65W, but the temperature doesn't go above 50°C on all sensors, when i stop the test it goes up again to 5GHz

[Sawa Takahashi]

1 hour ago, BrunoPower said:

t is the screen that shows the bios key, bootmenu key and q-flash key, and also the windows bootscreen

It is possible that there is a glitch in your BIOS. Maybe flashing the BIOS again can clear the glitch.

1 hour ago, BrunoPower said:

I already use HWinfo 64 for the temperatures, it first boosts to 250W or 100W and than it goes down to 65W, but the temperature doesn't go above 50°C on all sensors, when i stop the test it goes up again to 5GHz

Since that CPU has a tdp of 65W, I'd expect it to run at 65W most of the time. But with Intel CPUs, they can boost to higher power as long as there is enough cooling. I'm not sure you can enable/disable these features on a B-series chipset motherboard. If you check in the BIOS for Precision Boost Overdrive or another boost option for the CPU, you may be able to do something about it.

 

Good luck !