Red VGA light first boot

[lttuser7]

Built new PC and got red light in the VGA. Everything is new other than the GPU but was working this morning in another system.

 

This is a Ryzen 7 9700x and the gpu is a 3060. Motherboard is B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE. Not sure what to do. Reseated the memory and gpu sveeal times. Tried different PCIE cable and slots still not working.

 

 

EDIT:

 

I have reset all the power cables as well as the cpu and memory sticks. I am getting the same error with no GPU and just 1 stick of memory.

 

 

Edited September 7, 2025 by lttuser7

[Smalahovet]

Start process of elimination. Remove parts until you can get it booted. CPU, 1 stick of RAM and PSU. Then slowly add 1 and 1 part, while trying booting in between. To find where the failure is. You CPU has a iGPU can you use to boot.

[lttuser7]

9 minutes ago, Smalahovet said:

Start process of elimination. Remove parts until you can get it booted. CPU, 1 stick of RAM and PSU. Then slowly add 1 and 1 part, while trying booting in between. To find where the failure is. You CPU has a iGPU can you use to boot.

I tried using the cpu and got the same thing. But I’ll start going through it.

[FilipposTechGR]

57 minutes ago, lttuser7 said:

Built new PC and got red light in the VGA. Everything is new other than the GPU but was working this morning in another system.

 

This is a Ryzen 7 9700x and the gpu is a 3060. Motherboard is B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE. Not sure what to do. Reseated the memory and gpu sveeal times. Tried different PCIE cable and slots still not working.

 

 

 

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That VGA LED simply means the board isn’t getting a valid video init from the GPU. Since the 3060 was working earlier, the problem is likely board/BIOS side rather than the card itself. 
Make sure the GPU is fully seated – on these Aorus boards it sometimes takes more pressure than you’d expect until the latch clicks.
Double-check both 8-pin PCIe connectors are firmly in on the GPU side and PSU side.
Verify the monitor is plugged into the GPU, not the motherboard 9700X has no iGPU, so the board ports won’t work.
Clear CMOS and try first boot again.
If you still get VGA LED, check your BIOS version early B650 BIOS builds had some GPU init bugs. Update to the latest BIOS using Q-Flash if possible.
If the GPU still refuses, test it again in the old system to confirm it’s still alive. If it works there, you’re almost certainly looking at a board firmware issue.

[BillBill]

1 hour ago, lttuser7 said:

Built new PC and got red light in the VGA. Everything is new other than the GPU but was working this morning in another system.

 

This is a Ryzen 7 9700x and the gpu is a 3060. Motherboard is B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE. Not sure what to do. Reseated the memory and gpu sveeal times. Tried different PCIE cable and slots still not working.

 

 

 

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Since the PC is newly built. If you do not have an OS installed then this is normal. If that's the case just wait until the BIOS screen shows up. Then check and see if the BIOS is set for PCIe GPU. 

[lttuser7]

11 minutes ago, BillBill said:

Since the PC is newly built. If you do not have an OS installed then this is normal. If that's the case just wait until the BIOS screen shows up. Then check and see if the BIOS is set for PCIe GPU. 

So I have a hard drive from my old pc with windows and been waiting 5 minutes and still no bios.

[BillBill]

Just now, lttuser7 said:

So I have a hard drive from my old pc with windows and been waiting 5 minutes and still no bios.

Give it some time. There is no real time estimate. 

[lttuser7]

So I think this got fixed. It never bootted and I ended up just trying to use HDMI instead of the known working DP cable and booted into BIOS.

[Sawa Takahashi]

Since you got an AM5 board with an older GPU, you may have to slow down the PCIe in the BIOS for your 3060 to work correctly.

The 3060 is a PCIe gen 3 card and if you can set the PCIe slot to Gen 4 or Gen 3 in the BIOS (instead of Gen 5 or Auto), this should help the 3060 interface the right way with your CPU.

18 hours ago, FilipposTechGR said:

Verify the monitor is plugged into the GPU, not the motherboard 9700X has no iGPU, so the board ports won’t work.

The 9700X should have a low performance iGPU. It is the new norm of series 7000 and 9000.

 

[FilipposTechGR]

12 minutes ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

Since you got an AM5 board with an older GPU, you may have to slow down the PCIe in the BIOS for your 3060 to work correctly.

The 3060 is a PCIe gen 3 card and if you can set the PCIe slot to Gen 4 or Gen 3 in the BIOS (instead of Gen 5 or Auto), this should help the 3060 interface the right way with your CPU.

The 9700X should have a low performance iGPU. It is the new norm of series 7000 and 9000.

 

Just to be 100% clear, the Ryzen 9700X has no integrated graphics at all.  
Only the “G” models like 8700G, 9700G include an iGPU.  
So with a 9700X you must use a discrete GPU for display output, the motherboard video ports are inactive.

[Sawa Takahashi]

2 hours ago, FilipposTechGR said:

Just to be 100% clear, the Ryzen 9700X has no integrated graphics at all.  
Only the “G” models like 8700G, 9700G include an iGPU.  
So with a 9700X you must use a discrete GPU for display output, the motherboard video ports are inactive.

Here's the link to the AMD product page for the 9700X: https://shop-ca-en.amd.com/amd-ryzen-7-9700x-processor

Mid-page there are three tabs labelled as : General Specifications, Connectivity and Graphics Capabilities. Click on that third tab and see for yourself.

AMD Introduced the basic iGPU on standard and X variants with the 7000 series. You won't game on that iGPU but this is a great feature for debugging and office computers.

The G variants have a better iGPU, and those of the F variant do not have an iGPU at all.

[FilipposTechGR]

11 minutes ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

Here's the link to the AMD product page for the 9700X: https://shop-ca-en.amd.com/amd-ryzen-7-9700x-processor

Mid-page there are three tabs labelled as : General Specifications, Connectivity and Graphics Capabilities. Click on that third tab and see for yourself.

AMD Introduced the basic iGPU on standard and X variants with the 7000 series. You won't game on that iGPU but this is a great feature for debugging and office computers.

The G variants have a better iGPU, and those of the F variant do not have an iGPU at all.

Correct, the 9700X has no iGPU at all.  
AMD only added a very basic RDNA2 iGPU on the 7000/9000 non-G CPUs for POST/video out, but the 9700X doesn’t include that.  
You need a discrete GPU for any display.  
If you want integrated graphics, you have to look at the G-series e.g. 8700G / 9700G.

[Sawa Takahashi]

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Have a nice day !