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WHY DO I GET THE RED CPU LIGHT?! (HELP!)

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I went to go buy a gaming pc off a guy he showed me the specs and he actually went well on the price for it too i made a CLONE of all the parts the Computer has which are shown here ( http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/) everytime i would turn off the system and boot it up sometimes it wont boot up but then sometimes it will. im not sure what the problem PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/89q46h

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try to reseat the cpu, have been working for me :)

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I'm at work and decided to take a little of my time to post of what the problem might be I did update the bios since the motherboard bios was a 2103 version and it had a updated version to 2501 i do know that the version 2101 is a older version than the Cpu do you think that might be the problem?

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I do end up getting the "BOOT RED LED" light ONLY when i boot it into the BIOS but i checked that out that it might be a bad Motherboard or CPU but when it boots up it goes away. so i don't know what the problem is :/

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Take the cpu out of the motherboard and check the socket for any bent pins, they should all look exactly the same. If there is 1 or 2 bent, you can try to put it back in position with a toothpick or something.. but be very gentle.

 

For the bios.. get it on the latest.

I don'T PreSS caPs.. I juST Hit THe keYboARd so HarD iT CriTs :P

 

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Take the cpu out of the motherboard and check the socket for any bent pins, they should all look exactly the same. If there is 1 or 2 bent, you can try to put it back in position with a toothpick or something.. but be very gentle.

 

For the bios.. get it on the latest.

But people tell me it can be alot of things from a bad power supply to the motherboard being bad or the CPU having bent pins  i dont want to remove the cpu in fear of actually benting pins lol but people have told me that its just the BIOS if i update it the problem should stop.

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Can you point the light? I just can't see it.

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Is it the one that I circle?

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Beside the writing that says MemOK? .. re-seat your memory and try a memory check if yes. 

 

Checking the socket is easy.. it's 4 screws for the cooler, then just lift the lever and the cpu... the pins are on the board these days.. used to be on the cpu. :D

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so you system is powered up but the temps is way too low and so is the fan speed

 

is that when it idle?

 

use speedfan to verify

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Beside the writing that says MemOK? .. re-seat your memory and try a memory check if yes.

Checking the socket is easy.. it's 4 screws for the cooler, then just lift the lever and the cpu... the pins are on the board these days.. used to be on the cpu. :D

Its an AM3+, the pins are on the CPU.

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Its an AM3+, the pins are on the CPU.

Oops, sry, must learn to look at the board..

 

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Oops, sry, must learn to read.. :)

Is all good. :P

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