[SOLVED] Asus X570-i constant white LED at post

[MachOne4972]

I am struggling with this for about a week.
ASUS ROG Strix X570-I
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Corsair SF600 PSU
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4
Samsung 980 Pro M2 SSD
EVGA GeForce 1060 3g video card
Monitors : dell 1440p 32” curved connected to hdmi. / ACER 1080P monitor connected to DP via hdmi/dp adapter

I actually had this powered up and working for about 6 hours, Temps were good, system was stable and benchmarked well. I went to sleep and work up to Windows sleep mode (?) Hit power button, nothing, cycled PSU on/off. Now won’t boot at all and gives white LED on the POST code.

I have tried:
Pulled the GPU and PSU to verify they work in another system.
Pulled 1 stick of ram. Didn’t help. Reinstalled, pulled other stick, still no help.
Swapped motherboards (ordered 2nd one)
Tried pulling the SSD (saw that in other forum posts.
Turned off, unplugged monitor, turned on, turned back off and replugged back in monitor.
Swapped ram from other PC, no help

Things I can’t try (CPU) don’t have a spare,

Not sure what else to try. This WAS working well!
Please help

 

[MachOne4972]

Sorry but white LED indicates a GPU problem.

 

[Paul Block]

1. Did you try running in safe mode (if in windows)
2. Or booting using msconfig with diagnostic mode clicking the boot tab safe boot and bootlog?
3. Using your copy of win10 iso or dvd and running the troubleshooter

These of course are things for windows but since you didn't specify I'm only guessing what OS you're trying to install.
There are plenty of repair disc FOSS (Free Open Source Software) out on the web, but since you already booted,
I would also see if you can boot without the GPU if your motherboard has a video output port.

 

[MachOne4972]

1. Did you try running in safe mode (if in windows)
2. Or booting using msconfig with diagnostic mode clicking the boot tab safe boot and bootlog?
3. Using your copy of win10 iso or dvd and running the troubleshooter

These of course are things for windows but since you didn't specify I'm only guessing what OS you're trying to install.
There are plenty of repair disc FOSS (Free Open Source Software) out on the web, but since you already booted,
I would also see if you can boot without the GPU if your motherboard has a video output port.

Sorry, but I am not getting that far anymore. I am only getting to POST white led which indicates no VGA. I think it just stops there. I never get any video signal.

I see some people having luck swapping which slot their video card is plugged into (something about the PCI 4.0 vs 3.0 cards ) but this is an ITX card with just 1 PCI slot

 

[Paul Block]

OK, but you didn't answer one of the questions. Did you remove your GPU and try to boot?

1. If so I would shut down the machine
2. unplug it
3. open it up and remove the bios battery (check your motherboard manual and see if you need to change a jumper to reset the bios).
4. Reinstall the battery after a few minutes
5. See if it attempts reboot - hold down the delete key to get to your bios
6. check your config and if necessary download updated bios and make sure your using UEFI.

 

[MachOne4972]

OK, but you didn't answer one of the questions. Did you remove your GPU and try to boot?

1. If so I would shut down the machine
2. unplug it
3. open it up and remove the bios battery (check your motherboard manual and see if you need to change a jumper to reset the bios).
4. Reinstall the battery after a few minutes
5. See if it attempts reboot - hold down the delete key to get to your bios
6. check your config and if necessary download updated bios and make sure your using UEFI.

Ok, will try to remove my GPU and boot but the Ryzen 5 5600x doesn't have internal graphics (wishing I bought the 5600G). I did try to reset the BIOS by shorting the jumper. I will try to find the battery and remove it for the next troubleshooting steps.
I'm just about to box it all up and send back to amazon.

 

[Paul Block]

Yup, it sure is extremely frustrating. I would recommend using a board with graphics just for the reasons that you're having. It gives you some ways to figure out what's going on when you're trying
to troubleshoot things. Sorry, I was unable to give you the solution to your problem.

 

[MachOne4972]

Thanks, the board has HDMI ports but without the “G” processor, it’s just dead