Question 3 LEDs show on motherboard when I turn my PC ?

[RenzoLF-]

Hey so a red light show for the cpu, a yellow light for ram, & a green for the gpu.
These lights show up, but my pc runs just fine.
When I play games tho, I got a stutter/frame drops out of nowhere sometimes. My PC give me high fps too in games which is nice.
Could that be the reason why?
Here's m PC specs.
PC SPECS:
Mag X670E Tomahawk WiFi
GeForce RTX 4060TI Gaming x Slim 16GB GDDR6
Corsair vengeance DDR5 Ram 32GB 5200MHZ CL40 Intel XMP iCUE

Samsung - 990 PRO 2TB Internal SSD PCle Gen 4x4 NVMe​

Corsair RM750e (2023) ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant 80 plus gold efficiency
EK Nucleus AIO CR240
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6 Core Processor

 

[CountMike]

Hey so a red light show for the cpu, a yellow light for ram, & a green for the gpu.
These lights show up, but my pc runs just fine.
When I play games tho, I got a stutter/frame drops out of nowhere sometimes. My PC give me high fps too in games which is nice.
Could that be the reason why?
Here's m PC specs.
PC SPECS:
Mag X670E Tomahawk WiFi
GeForce RTX 4060TI Gaming x Slim 16GB GDDR6
Corsair vengeance DDR5 Ram 32GB 5200MHZ CL40 Intel XMP iCUE

Samsung - 990 PRO 2TB Internal SSD PCle Gen 4x4 NVMe​

Corsair RM750e (2023) ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant 80 plus gold efficiency
EK Nucleus AIO CR240
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6 Core Processor

Are they on all the time ? BIOS up to date ?

 

[RenzoLF-]

Are they on all the time ? BIOS up to date ?

Hi thank you for the reply! What do you mean are they on all the time? If you are talking about me leaving the pc on when I’m busy & out the house, no it’s off. BIOS are not up to date. I kinda got nervous at looking at all the files & was thinking which one would be good for my system. I did uninstall & reinstall GPU drivers with DDU. I installed a AMD chipset driver. Still having fps drops/stutters. Then recently, I came home from work, turn the pc on & the red cpu light & yellow ram light were on for like a minute until I finally got a POST. Then went into windows normally. Not sure why that happened?

 

[CountMike]

Hi thank you for the reply! What do you mean are they on all the time? If you are talking about me leaving the pc on when I’m busy & out the house, no it’s off. BIOS are not up to date. I kinda got nervous at looking at all the files & was thinking which one would be good for my system. I did uninstall & reinstall GPU drivers with DDU. I installed a AMD chipset driver. Still having fps drops/stutters. Then recently, I came home from work, turn the pc on & the red cpu light & yellow ram light were on for like a minute until I finally got a POST. Then went into windows normally. Not sure why that happened?

I meant are lights on while PC is running ?
Drivers don't have anything to do with the lights,that's in BIOS.
I would start with CMOS reset and BIOS update. You may also re-seat RAM and check it's health.

 

[RenzoLF-]

I meant are lights on while PC is running ?
Drivers don't have anything to do with the lights,that's in BIOS.
I would start with CMOS reset and BIOS update. You may also re-seat RAM and check it's health.

The lights go away when I finally get a POST. It’s a stable light too btw. No blinking, no nothing. Just stable. I reseated the RAM already. Each I tried switching the RAM stick from A2 to B2. Then tried only one stick. Still FPSDrops/Stutter & I still got where the two lights are on with no display for a minute. How would I do a CMOS reset on a Mag X670E Tomahawk WiFi mobo?

 

[CountMike]

The lights go away when I finally get a POST. It’s a stable light too btw. No blinking, no nothing. Just stable. I reseated the RAM already. Each I tried switching the RAM stick from A2 to B2. Then tried only one stick. Still FPSDrops/Stutter & I still got where the two lights are on with no display for a minute. How would I do a CMOS reset on a Mag X670E Tomahawk WiFi mobo?

CMOS could be reset in multiple ways. Easiest is from BIOS itself. Usually pressing F5 or some other option "reset to factory defaults" . Also 2 pins (Clr-cmos) on MB to short out or in extreme case taking out battery for few seconds or minutes. Last two with power right off.

 

[RenzoLF-]

CMOS could be reset in multiple ways. Easiest is from BIOS itself. Usually pressing F5 or some other option "reset to factory defaults" . Also 2 pins (Clr-cmos) on MB to short out or in extreme case taking out battery for few seconds or minutes. Last two with power right off.

Okay sounds good. I’ll try this in the morning when I wake up. I’m also gonna get another USB flash drive to get the BIOS on there for my pc. Thank you for the replies. I’ll update you when I do so.

 

[RenzoLF-]

CMOS could be reset in multiple ways. Easiest is from BIOS itself. Usually pressing F5 or some other option "reset to factory defaults" . Also 2 pins (Clr-cmos) on MB to short out or in extreme case taking out battery for few seconds or minutes. Last two with power right off.

Hey I got my new USB Drive. I boot up the PC just now & it showed the lights again but, it booted up faster how it'd always do. So that's good. I have a question tho...which one of these BIOS files should I download? It also have the patch notes on each file. Here's the link: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X670E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support

 

[CountMike]

Hey I got my new USB Drive. I boot up the PC just now & it showed the lights again but, it booted up faster how it'd always do. So that's good. I have a question tho...which one of these BIOS files should I download? It also have the patch notes on each file. Here's the link: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X670E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support

Which version do you have now? I don't have that MB but BIOS with AGESA 1170 wasn't very good for 7000 Ryzen. on my Asrock.

 

[RenzoLF-]

Which version do you have now? I don't have that MB but BIOS with AGESA 1170 wasn't very good for 7000 Ryzen. on my Asrock.

In BIOS it showed my BIOS version is: E7E12AMS.170

 

[CountMike]

In BIOS it showed my BIOS version is: E7E12AMS.170

I don't see it in that list, they all have 7e12v... check by date.
7E12v19 from 2024-04-22 seems to be last without AGESA 1170. but has good ComboPI 1.1.0.2b

 

[SkyNetRising]

The lights go away when I finally get a POST.

That's normal operation.
During post process, system goes through various checks.
If a check fails, corresponding leds remain lit.
If all leds clear, then everything is ok (all checks have been passed).

 

[SkyNetRising]

When I play games tho, I got a stutter/frame drops out of nowhere sometimes.

Ckeck CPU and GPU temperatures during load.
You can do that with MSI Afterburner.

 

[RenzoLF-]

Ckeck CPU and GPU temperatures during load.
You can do that with MSI Afterburner.

Here's my temps when I was playing COD
https://streamable.com/ga7t0q

 

[RenzoLF-]

I don't see it in that list, they all have 7e12v... check by date.
7E12v19 from 2024-04-22 seems to be last without AGESA 1170. but has good ComboPI 1.1.0.2b

what does ComboPI do?

 

[CountMike]

what does ComboPI do?

It's just part of name for AGESA code.

 

[RenzoLF-]

That's normal operation.
During post process, system goes through various checks.
If a check fails, corresponding leds remain lit.
If all leds clear, then everything is ok (all checks have been passed).

Also do you know which BIOS file I should I get? On my Mag X670E Tomahawk Wifi I have version E7E12AMS.170
Here's a link for the BIOS & the patch notes with it
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X670E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support

 

[COLGeek]

I would suggest the most recent, non-beta, release: 7E12v1B

 

[RenzoLF-]

I would suggest the most recent, non-beta, release: 7E12v1B

Really? What about 7E12v19 that came out 4/22/24? The other guy suggested me that one...

 

[RenzoLF-]

It's just part of name for AGESA code.

what about 7E12v1B?

 

[CountMike]

what about 7E12v1B?

That should be 7E12v18 (eighteen, not B). v19 is newer but still with AGESA 1102.
Note that first boot after flashing it may take few minutes, after that it should be faster.

 

[RenzoLF-]

That should be 7E12v18 (eighteen, not B). v19 is newer but still with AGESA 1102.
Note that first boot after flashing it may take few minutes, after that it should be faster.

Okay cool I'll go with V19. Should I CMOS first then install the new BIOS file?

 

[COLGeek]

7E12v1B was released today. Hard to be newer than that.

 

[RenzoLF-]

7E12v1B was released today. Hard to be newer than that.

@CountMike hey guys, so I updated my bios. Still having frame drops. I’ve been trying to play SF6 & I get drops still. I don’t even play the game at the highest settings either. Same goes for COD & Xdefiant but the fps drops in those two games aren’t as bad as Street Fighter 6.

 

[RenzoLF-]

Hey guys, so I did everything I probably could do. Looked up YouTube videos on how to boost fps & make my system perform well & did nothing for my pc. I uninstalled & installed gpu driver with DDU. I installed a AMD chipset driver & updated BIOS & nothing worked. I even tried reseating the CPU & tried taking the RAM sticks out & leave one of them in & booting the PC. I played games like Street Fighter 6, COD & Xdefiant. SF6 would have pretty bad frame drops. COD & Xdefiant would go from 250FPS & down to like 165 & back up to 250 every now & then. SF6 would be at 60 & go down to 45 or 50. I don’t even play any of the games I have at the highest settings either. I’m not sure what’s the issue. Maybe the AIO? PC part picker said my 120 MM AIO was compatible with my CPU. Then a few days ago I saw my AMD Ryzen 5 7600X recommends a 240MM AIO? I’m lost. Please help. Thank you.