Graphics Card Light

[p3rcussion]

I have no idea when, but a while back, the VGA LED on my motherboard (Asus Z170AR) would turn on after booting up the system. It would always work fine, but the light never went off. Recently my computer had just been acting weird so I reinstalled Windows and noticed this time it wouldn't move past the graphics card in boot. I took the card out and everything turned on and installed fine, however, I can't really get much done without a graphics card. I'm really confused about it, as I was using the card a few hours ago, reinstalled and now it just doesn't work. Would anyone know what this might be? Also, additional info, I used to get a lot of Blue Screens from memory related things but they all seemed to disappear before I noticed the light. Not sure if they're tied.

 

Specs.

Motherboard: Asus Z170AR

Processor: Intel i5-6600K

Graphics Card: Sapphire R9 380 4GB Nitro-DualX OC

Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 -2400 (2 x 4GB)

[suchamoneypit]

With the card installed, clear your CMOS on the motherboard (usually involves shorting two pins by touching them both with a screwdriver or other metal object). Google how to do it on your particular board or read your motherboard manual to find where the CMOS or CLR_CMOS is. Report back if it still doesn't post/boot.

 

Willing to bet that'll fix the issue.

[ki8aras]

42 minutes ago, p3rcussion said:

I have no idea when, but a while back, the VGA LED on my motherboard (Asus Z170AR) would turn on after booting up the system. It would always work fine, but the light never went off. Recently my computer had just been acting weird so I reinstalled Windows and noticed this time it wouldn't move past the graphics card in boot. I took the card out and everything turned on and installed fine, however, I can't really get much done without a graphics card. I'm really confused about it, as I was using the card a few hours ago, reinstalled and now it just doesn't work. Would anyone know what this might be? Also, additional info, I used to get a lot of Blue Screens from memory related things but they all seemed to disappear before I noticed the light. Not sure if they're tied.

 

Specs.

Motherboard: Asus Z170AR

Processor: Intel i5-6600K

Graphics Card: Sapphire R9 380 4GB Nitro-DualX OC

Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 -2400 (2 x 4GB)

if everything else fails try using another computer to reflash the bios on the gpu

[p3rcussion]

Sadly, that didn't get it to work. Did it both with and without the card and with and without the CMOS battery. I know the clears worked cause it did its turning on and off thing. When the HDMI cable is plugged in, the light turns on, but when its unplugged nothing happens through integrated graphics. Also, I tried the second slot and same thing.