Hi, i am currently building a whole new setup and the CPU light on the motherboard is solid red and the PC won't boot at all. All the fans spin, the motherboard lights up. I tried using a and 5600x CPU with a MPG X570 Gaming pro carbon wifi. I also updated the BIOS using the USB and the flash BIOS button. It completed its update I believe as it lasted for about 7 minutes with the light on the flash BIOS button consistently flashing until the PC restarted for 2 seconds and then the button flashed twice and that was it. Then i let it run for a couple more minutes just in case and made sure that the light on the USB stick and the light on the flash BIOS button were off. I made sure to unplug everything too before i did this besides the CPU power and the motherboard power. I also did it with no CPU in the socket. That didn't work so i tried putting my 3900x from a personal computer in it which works fine and the motherboard still showed a CPU red light. I tried resetting the CMOS and jumping the pin and that did not help. I reconnected the CPU cables to the motherboard and to the power supply and that did nothing. I tried using 4 different ram sticks, 2 brand new and 2 used, and put them in every slot. Even put just one stick in I tried using the onboard video on the motherboard and the graphics cards port to see if the screen turned on. It did not. I'm thinking they sent me a bad motherboard because i don't know how i could be getting a solid red CPU light with a known working CPU designed for that motherboard. Any suggestions on what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Build:
AMD 5600x CPU
850 watt corsair PSU
evga gtx 1050 (Yes I know that's old lol)
16 gb ddr4 RAM
4 tb HDD
1.74 TB M.2 SSD
Build:
AMD 5600x CPU
850 watt corsair PSU
evga gtx 1050 (Yes I know that's old lol)
16 gb ddr4 RAM
4 tb HDD
1.74 TB M.2 SSD
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