Question Red light, then Orange light - no boot ?

[Fire-Wire]

Hey! So, turned off, went out, came back, pc didnt turn back on.

At first it was stuck in orange light, no boot, no video. Then, forced shutdown and tried turning it on, it booted 'normally', to be sure I turned it off and sadly it never turned on again. First it flicked a Red light and immediately turned off, then on automatically, then the Red light flick, off, on, off, on all very fast ad infinitum. I removed the RAM sticks, cleaned contacts, tried again. Now it goes Red very fast into Orange, stays for 3-4 seconds and no light. External lights and all fans turn on ok, but no boot, no video. Tried swapping slots, one ram, other older ram, no ram whatsoever, but the same happens: red > orange > no light.

Mbd: Asus Prime B560M-A
GPU: RTX 3060
CPU: i5-11600kf
Drives: 2 x kingston SSDs (240Gb and 1Tb)
RAM: 2 x 16 GB ddr4 Risemode
OS: Windows 10

Things Ive done so far:
- everything possible with ram sticks
- unplugged pcie and gpu, cleaned, plugged back
- tried hdmi on mobo rather than gpu
- plugged and unplugged cpu cables
- plugged and unplugged mobo cables

Last thing I did was upgrade from 16 to 32Gbs Ram to better run servers. But even putting older ram sticks or leaving all slots empty, results re unchanged. I'm really stumped. I didnt do a cmos clear cause I dont know how exactly and am afraid of doing more harm than good.

Edit: now the orange light is constant and only goes away if I forcefully shutdown the PC.

 

[helpstar]

which psu are you running?

run a minimum setup
motherboard, 1 ram in dimm slot A2, psu, gpu, all power connectors plugged in, monitor connected to gpu, keyboard

if this doesn't bring up the bios screen, reset the bios by clrcmos jumper (you can't do anything wrong by just resetting the bios)

[Motherboard/Desktop] How to restore BIOS setting? | Official Support | ASUS Global

 

[Fire-Wire]

which psu are you running?

run a minimum setup
motherboard, 1 ram in dimm slot A2, psu, gpu, all power connectors plugged in, monitor connected to gpu, keyboard

I tried clearing cmos, it actually got past orange light, but then no light and no nothing. My psu is a corsair cx650.

Update: a technician troubleshot and blamed mobo, not recognizing Ram, faulty slots, etc. Bought another B560, but from MSI. The problem persists identically. I don't understand how that is possible.

 

[helpstar]

which new motherboard are you using?
take some pictures of your minimum setup and upload to imgur.com or similar and post the links

your cpu does not include an integrated graphics chip, therefore your motherboard video ports won't work. use your gpu and connect the video cable to it

 

[Fire-Wire]

which new motherboard are you using?
take some pictures of your minimum setup and upload to imgur.com or similar and post the links

your cpu does not include an integrated graphics chip, therefore your motherboard video ports won't work. use your gpu and connect the video cable to it

Sadly, I cannot do it now. But my new motherboard is a MSI B560M Pro-E. I was aiming for one as close to my old one as possible.

 

[helpstar]

eventually your bios is not up to date and you will need to update it to support the 11th gen CPU
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B560M-PRO-E/support#bios