Greetings. I was planning to build a PC for my brother for Christmas, and I decided to go with mostly the same components as I have for my PC for ease of building. I bought a 3070ti for myself while giving my brother my old 1080ti. Essentially, everything was going well with the build, my PC turned on just fine with my new CPU cooler and the 3070ti, updated my drivers, everything was running fine.
Then I tried to boot up my brother's PC. The PC turns on, however it does not open the BIOS, and there is a static orange light on the motherboard on the backside connectors going down all the way to the bottom. (Both PCs have the same motherboard, B550 AORUS Elite V2, as well as the same CPU, Ryzen 5 5600x). On multiple websites it said that an orange light can mean a number of things, so I started experimenting putting in different pieces into my PC and vice versa to see if the orange light disappears and I can go into BIOS. It wasn't the RAM, wasn't the GPU.
As the last thing I tried to loosen the CPU cooler as that's apparently a cause sometimes. Wasn't that either. So then I decided to swap around the CPUs. Once I put the new CPU into my PC, my PC wouldn't load and my motherboard also got the orange light. So basically I think something is wrong with that new CPU. Maybe it's also possible that something is wrong with the new motherboard actually and when I put in my old CPU into it, maybe it bugged it out. I really don't know.
Another possibility for this could be the BIOS flash. B550 mobo apparently sometimes needs a BIOS flash with the ryzen 5 5600x, however when I built my first PC I was lucky and it was already done beforehand. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if an orange light on mobo shows up if it needs a BIOS flash, as maybe this time around it was not done beforehand. I don't know however why putting in the new CPU into my PC would've caused an issue though if it needed a BIOS flash.
So essentially now I have a new PC which I can't even install windows on, and my old pc which has been bugged out by trying to put the new CPU into it, and the orange light won't disappear even when I put in back all my old parts with which it loaded perfectly fine just an hour prior.
I would be extremely grateful if anyone could give some insight into this. I sincerely hope that both PC's didn't break because of a faulty CPU or MOBO..
Specs on my PC:
3070ti GPU
Ryzen 5 5600x CPU
16gb Ballistix RAM
B550 AORUS Elite V2 MOBO
Straight Power 11 PSU
2tb samsung nvme SSD
Noctua NH-15 CPU cooler
Specs on my brothers new PC:
1080ti GPU
Ryzen 5 5600x CPU
16gb Vengeance RAM
B550 AORUS Elite V2 MOBO
Straight Power 11 PSU
500gb SSD + 1tb barracuda HDD
Be silent pure rock CPU cooler
2tb samsung nvme SSD
Then I tried to boot up my brother's PC. The PC turns on, however it does not open the BIOS, and there is a static orange light on the motherboard on the backside connectors going down all the way to the bottom. (Both PCs have the same motherboard, B550 AORUS Elite V2, as well as the same CPU, Ryzen 5 5600x). On multiple websites it said that an orange light can mean a number of things, so I started experimenting putting in different pieces into my PC and vice versa to see if the orange light disappears and I can go into BIOS. It wasn't the RAM, wasn't the GPU.
As the last thing I tried to loosen the CPU cooler as that's apparently a cause sometimes. Wasn't that either. So then I decided to swap around the CPUs. Once I put the new CPU into my PC, my PC wouldn't load and my motherboard also got the orange light. So basically I think something is wrong with that new CPU. Maybe it's also possible that something is wrong with the new motherboard actually and when I put in my old CPU into it, maybe it bugged it out. I really don't know.
Another possibility for this could be the BIOS flash. B550 mobo apparently sometimes needs a BIOS flash with the ryzen 5 5600x, however when I built my first PC I was lucky and it was already done beforehand. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if an orange light on mobo shows up if it needs a BIOS flash, as maybe this time around it was not done beforehand. I don't know however why putting in the new CPU into my PC would've caused an issue though if it needed a BIOS flash.
So essentially now I have a new PC which I can't even install windows on, and my old pc which has been bugged out by trying to put the new CPU into it, and the orange light won't disappear even when I put in back all my old parts with which it loaded perfectly fine just an hour prior.
I would be extremely grateful if anyone could give some insight into this. I sincerely hope that both PC's didn't break because of a faulty CPU or MOBO..
Specs on my PC:
3070ti GPU
Ryzen 5 5600x CPU
16gb Ballistix RAM
B550 AORUS Elite V2 MOBO
Straight Power 11 PSU
2tb samsung nvme SSD
Noctua NH-15 CPU cooler
Specs on my brothers new PC:
1080ti GPU
Ryzen 5 5600x CPU
16gb Vengeance RAM
B550 AORUS Elite V2 MOBO
Straight Power 11 PSU
500gb SSD + 1tb barracuda HDD
Be silent pure rock CPU cooler
2tb samsung nvme SSD
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