Question Gigabyte Eagle B650 AX CPU led is on, but PC seems to work fine except longer booting

[TopekaMarek]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor6 Cores
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
PSU: MSI MAG A650GL 650W 80 Plus Gold
Motherboard: Gigabyte Eagle B650 AX
RAM: KINGSTON Fury Beast 32GB 5200MHz
SSD 1: KINGSTON KC3000 1TB

I noticed that around the windows update time (I'm on win11) my CPU LED on the motherboard lit up and stays lit up, even when the PC is booted up.
Also boot up time is now few times longer, it starts to boot up normally with the GIGABYTE logo and the loading circle (which moves), and then the dispaly flickers and it gets stuck for around 30 seconds on a black screen with just the loading circle (the circle now doesn't move at all) and then it changes to the windows welcome screen which loads a bit longer than usual as well.

In device manager the iGPU has an exclamation mark(error code 43). I unistalled the drivers with AMD cleaning utility (and then installed them again)which booted windows up in the safe mode, and the boot time was normal, but the CPU LED was on nevertheless.

I turned the iGPU off in BIOS and there is still a problem with the CPU LED on the motherboard, same for the boot time. I cleaned (just blew some air on it with my mouth) the CPU power socket and unplugged and plugged the CPU power cable in again. I unistalled the windows updates, and it didn't do anything, but in update history the updates still show as installed.
I updated BIOS using Gigabyte control center app from version F1 to F34, I took out the CMOS battery for about 6 minutes and it still the same issue.

I build this PC a little over a year ago. I used to have a RAM issue it wasn't stable when using XMP, crashing games after half an hour or so, so the XMP is turned off (I checked and it's definitely turned off even after updating and resetting BIOS).
CPU temps are normal, around 40C on idle, and up to 80 on 100% utl - but I'm not using too much in terms of cooling.

The PC seems to be running fine, I'm not using it heavily, so can't really tell, but an hour long gaming session is regular and there's no crashes or anything.

Thanks for helping and let me know if there is some information missing.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I updated BIOS using Gigabyte control center app from version F1 to F34
Ideally, you should've updated the BIOS from within BIOS GUI or the Q-Flash Plus button/USB port. Try and manually install the latest chipset driver sourced from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

As for clearing the CMOS, ideally you disconnect from the wall and display, then remove the CMOS battery, press and hold down the power button for 30seconds to drain any residual power. Replace the CMOS battery after 30mins.

RAM: KINGSTON Fury Beast 32GB 5200MHz
AN observation, you've left performance on the table. The sweet spot for AM5 platforms is dual channel, DDR5-6000MHz, tight latencied ram kits.

I used to have a RAM issue it wasn't stable when using XMP, crashing games after half an hour or so, so the XMP is turned off (I checked and it's definitely turned off even after updating and resetting BIOS).
Would indicate one of two things.
a| your motherboard is at fault, likely a BIOS issue
or
b| the integrated memory controller on your processor is faulty/failing.

 

[TopekaMarek]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I updated BIOS using Gigabyte control center app from version F1 to F34
Ideally, you should've updated the BIOS from within BIOS GUI or the Q-Flash Plus button/USB port. Try and manually install the latest chipset driver sourced from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

As for clearing the CMOS, ideally you disconnect from the wall and display, then remove the CMOS battery, press and hold down the power button for 30seconds to drain any residual power. Replace the CMOS battery after 30mins.

RAM: KINGSTON Fury Beast 32GB 5200MHz
AN observation, you've left performance on the table. The sweet spot for AM5 platforms is dual channel, DDR5-6000MHz, tight latencied ram kits.

I used to have a RAM issue it wasn't stable when using XMP, crashing games after half an hour or so, so the XMP is turned off (I checked and it's definitely turned off even after updating and resetting BIOS).
Would indicate one of two things.
a| your motherboard is at fault, likely a BIOS issue
or
b| the integrated memory controller on your processor is faulty/failing.

I reinstalled windows and manually installed the chipset drivers as you advised, but I'm still getting the same issue, and also did the thing with CMOS.
It seems like something caused by windows update, since the issue started on the 12th the same day I had my windows update, but that seems highly unlikely for updates to do this, no? Is it just a coincidence?

 

[Lutfij]

Did you recreate the installer for the OS so you're on the latest version? Did you install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all necessary drivers pertaining to your platform in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, while in offline mode?

Speaking of installers, where did you source the OS installer from?

 

[TopekaMarek]

Did you recreate the installer for the OS so you're on the latest version? Did you install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all necessary drivers pertaining to your platform in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, while in offline mode?

Speaking of installers, where did you source the OS installer from?

I used reset this PC option and was connected to the internet the whole time, guess I'll try install it brand new from the flashdrive tomorrow while offline and will report what happens.
Also did install all the drives in an elevated command.
I always take the installer from this microsoft via the media creation app.

 

[TopekaMarek]

Did you recreate the installer for the OS so you're on the latest version? Did you install the OS in offline mode, manually installing all necessary drivers pertaining to your platform in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, while in offline mode?

Speaking of installers, where did you source the OS installer from?

Anyway, I did a clean install of win10 already and it boots up just fine, but the CPU LED is still on and driving me crazy.
Can these two issues be separate even though they appeared at the same time?

Edit, I just remembered that after having this LED at first i powered the PC off turned off the PSU, and held the power button for around 10 seconds and turned it all on, it helped with the LED, but for few days only. Then it appeared again and the same trick didn't help since.