Question Orange DRAM light ?

[LuisCorona26789]

Hi so that past 3 days I’ve had an issue with a PSU I bought and just yesterday I finally bought one that worked. However now when I turn on my PC it goes red, then yellow and stays there with no picture. I’ve reseated the ram and tried individual rams, ram slots that didn’t work. I popped out the cmos battery and let it be for 5 minutes nothing worked. Checked my cpu pins and everything looks fine. Unplugged and checked the connections of the PSU, all looked fine so I’m stuck, what can I do ?

Specs:
Motherboard: Rog Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi D4
CPU: Intel i7-12700k
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce 3050 (….i know)
PSU: Corsair SF750

 

[35below0]

Are all the ram sticks the same?
Have you used this ram before? I presume it's the same ram you had before the PSU purchase.
Do you have some other ram stick you can borrow to test the computer?

If the DRAM led stays on that indicates a ram problem OR a CPU problem. So let's hope it's a ram problem.
Test with a different ram stick. One that you know is compatible.

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Are all the ram sticks the same?
Have you used this ram before? I presume it's the same ram you had before the PSU purchase.
Do you have some other ram stick you can borrow to test the computer?

If the DRAM led stays on that indicates a ram problem OR a CPU problem. So let's hope it's a ram problem.
Test with a different ram stick. One that you know is compatible.

Yeah i tried another pair of ram should I try the other ram I have one by one testing the slots ?

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Yeah i tried another pair of ram should I try the other ram I have one by one testing the slots ?

The first pair of ram sticks that I use were the ones I was using before the Psu as well don’t know how the ram can mess up in the matter of 4 days of me not being able to use the pc caue of the Psu problem I had I’m hoping it is the rams

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Are all the ram sticks the same?
Have you used this ram before? I presume it's the same ram you had before the PSU purchase.
Do you have some other ram stick you can borrow to test the computer?

If the DRAM led stays on that indicates a ram problem OR a CPU problem. So let's hope it's a ram problem.
Test with a different ram stick. One that you know is compatible.

I have another spare mobo that fits my cpu should I test my components on that ?

 

[35below0]

I have another spare mobo that fits my cpu should I test my components on that ?

Yeah, at this point you could do that. It would help narrow down what is causing the issue.

It would be weird if so many ram sticks were screwy or dead. It's possibly a motherboard or CPU issue.

 

[35below0]

What was the PSU issue that caused you to buy the new Corsair SF750?

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Yeah, at this point you could do that. It would help narrow down what is causing the issue.

It would be weird if so many ram sticks were screwy or dead. It's possibly a motherboard or CPU issue.

So I made the switch and everything turned on and picture came out. Only weird thing is, is that windows changed the pin or whatever it’s making me make a new pin to log in I’m gonna do that and see if I can test out my pc should I do a cpu stress test or something?

 

[LuisCorona26789]

What was the PSU issue that caused you to buy the new Corsair SF750?

I bought a lian li snowl mini case without knowing that I needed a SFX form factor Psu which is just a baby Psu. So I went to microcenter bought one came back home flipped the switch. Mobo light turned on then pressed the power button and nothing turned on the only thing that moved was the Psu fan which kinda jittered and that’s it. I checked the wattage everything was good I even checked my f panel like a millions times, ram, GPU everything so I tried my old Psu which was a 650 evga semi modular lesser wattage than the lian li one and my whole pc actually worked everything turned on just fine.

So I went back to microcenter asked for an exchange, got a new packaged lian li Psu again went home same issue at this point I was pretty sure it’s not my components it’s the lian li Psu tried it out a. Bunch of times and nothing happened. BACK to microcenter exhange for a Corsair Psu a SF750 paid a bit more and now it works but no picture cause it flashes the red then orange and stays on orange. I just switched my components to a old mobo I had and everything is working just windows decided to change my pin or something so yeah

 

[35below0]

I bought a lian li snowl mini case without knowing that I needed a SFX form factor Psu which is just a baby Psu. So I went to microcenter bought one came back home flipped the switch. Mobo light turned on then pressed the power button and nothing turned on the only thing that moved was the Psu fan which kinda jittered and that’s it. I checked the wattage everything was good I even checked my f panel like a millions times, ram, GPU everything so I tried my old Psu which was a 650 evga semi modular lesser wattage than the lian li one and my whole pc actually worked everything turned on just fine. So I went back to microcenter asked for an exhanged got a new packaged lian li Psu again went home same issue at this point I was pretty sure it’s not my components it’s the lian li Psu tried it out a. Bunch of times and nothing happened. BACK to microcenter exhange for a Corsair Psu a SF750 paid a bit more and now it works but no picture cause it flashes the red then orange and stays on orange. I just switched my components to a old mobo I had and everything is working just windows decided to change my pin or something so yeah

Based on what you wrote it seems the motherboard is the problem. It is possible the lian li PSU caused damage to it.

If everything is working fine, your components are good. Unfortunately you need a new motherboard. Unless you want to keep using the old one.

Windows decided to change the pin because the PC hardware is different. Everything is on a different motherboard, different chipset, etc.

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Based on what you wrote it seems the motherboard is the problem. It is possible the lian li PSU caused damage to it.

If everything is working fine, your components are good. Unfortunately you need a new motherboard. Unless you want to keep using the old one.

Windows decided to change the pin because the PC hardware is different. Everything is on a different motherboard, different chipset, etc.

Damn I figured cause everything works on the other mobo so I guess I need a new mobo alright thank you I’ll forever hate lian li 😂

 

[LuisCorona26789]

Based on what you wrote it seems the motherboard is the problem. It is possible the lian li PSU caused damage to it.

If everything is working fine, your components are good. Unfortunately you need a new motherboard. Unless you want to keep using the old one.

Windows decided to change the pin because the PC hardware is different. Everything is on a different motherboard, different chipset, etc.

Is there any way to fix it maybe ?

 

[35below0]

It's not impossible, but most of the time it's easier to replace. You could ask a computer repair shop or something like that.

If the motherboard is covered by warranty, you could try to return it. No reason not to try. Motherboards can take a lot of abuse. Maybe this one was defective in some way.