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Motherboard red LED?

dharvey
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Hello,

I recently just noticed a red light constantly emitting in the motherboard. What does this mean? It stays on constanty and I do not know why. Also, I recently installed a gtx670 could this be related?

It's an Asus sabertooth x79

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Does it boot?
Is it from the upper right part of the board?

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It is on the mid right part of the board near graphics card and it makes no sound. I attached a video.

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It is on the mid right part of the board near graphics card and it makes no sound. I attached a video.

um looks like the video didn't paste or something

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um looks like the video didn't paste or something

yeah video won't attach for some reason. It's an LED located on the right side of the board. Just below the RAM on the right side.

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yeah video won't attach for some reason. It's an LED located on the right side of the board. Just below the RAM on the right side.

ah, remove each ram dimm, does the post-code readout give any error number or letters? Seems like you may have a ram issue.

Did the system boot without the GPU and using iGPU?

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I just replaced the 680 with a 970 nothing else. Never had any ram issues when it booted up or anything. I am not sure what you mean by post-code but it boots up normally with no error numbers. It is currently booting up fine and just noticed that red light since the video card had been replaced.

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So I believe it is called the Boot_DEVICE_LED and not sure what that means. I will try to keep troubleshooting.

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Ok Guys, I solved it.

I changed boot up priorities in the bios. It seems the motherboard was not liking the 60 GIG SSD having first priority over the Windows startup HDD. I made HDD first priority and disabled the SSD from being recognized during start up and the light turned off. Also made the boot up sequence faster :)

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