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Question MOBO/GPU doesn’t show image if turned on from shut down state

May 26, 2021
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Hello,

Recently I have built my first gaming PC, and I have an ASUS TUF Gaming B550-Plus (WIFI) motherboard and an EVGA RTX 3060 XC GPU. I have an issue that whenever I shut down my PC and don’t use it for a few minutes, when I’m powering it on, the motherboard does not send any image to the monitor and the motherboard’s VGA LED lights up, and I need to shut down again the PC, power off the PSU, wait until the MOBO’s RGB LEDs goes off, and then start again the PC, so the monitor can receive any signal. Rebooting the PC does not have this issue (if previously I had signal on the monitor). I also have tried enabling ReSize BAR so I could get a bit of more performance on some games, such as Forza Horizon 4, although this not affect (in a positive nor negative way) to the main issue.

During this week, I have done some testings, and I have tried to downgrade my MOBO’s BIOS version from 2006 (the latest stable version) to 2003 and 1804 (this is the first stable version to support ReSize BAR, as this is a feature I’d like to experience) to check if the issue was a bugged BIOS firmware, all without any result. However, I have noticed that before shutting down the PC, I had disabled CSM on the UEFI, and after doing the above procedure to get signal on my monitor, the CSM option would automatically enable. This happens on all of those 3 versions of BIOS. However, if I try to power on my computer with CSM enabled, it still suffers from that issue, having to power off the PC and PSU and powering them on again.

I have researched on the Internet, and I’ve found mixed solutions (that do not work for me): people that have got fixed the issue by downgrading its BIOS, people that by taking the GPU off the MOBO, power the PC on, power it off and connecting the GPU again fixed the issue, disabling CSM, clearing CMOS and loading BIOS defaults… All tried without success (tried on all 3 versions of BIOS).

So, what is causing the MOBO to not send any signal to the monitor?

My specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (No OC)
CPU Cooler: AMD Wraith Stealth (Stock)
GPU: EVGA RTX 3060 XC (No OC)
RAM: HyperX Fury 3200 MHz CL16 2*8 GB
MOBO: ASUS TUF Gaming B550-Plus WIFI
Case: Nfortec Caelum Black
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2458-P-MHD Full HD 1080p 144 Hz 1ms FreeSync
Keyboard: Corsair K55 PRO RGB
Mouse: Razer Mamba Tournament Edition