Question should I be worried about red light in the mobo

Elie_4

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after installing Intel drivers and restarting my PC did not connect to the internet, so I did a second restart on the PC a red light on the mobo(which means CPU is the problem according to google) appeared and it never went away usually when the red light appears is for 1 sec on boot which I assume is normal then it disappears since it is pc is booting. this time the red light persisted even when I turned it off completely what I did was turn off the PSU and try to drain all power by using power button 1st time, but I did not do a thing, flashed the bios idk why but it seem it did not flash then I try psu turn off again and pressed power bios flash for 2nd time and it seems after tried to boot PC and it worked normal what I did after install latest updates of the bios firmware. should I be worried about it or it was some small error somewhere and it went away when draing PC power

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Wn6jZJ
I build PC around 1 year and 2 month and psu age is about same
Bios version was 7E07vA5 on msi website https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-Z790-A-WIFI/support
 
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Lutfij

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When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

what I did after install latest updates of the bios firmware
Did you clear the CMOS after you'd verified that the BIOS was flashed successfully?
 

Elie_4

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When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

what I did after install latest updates of the bios firmware
Did you clear the CMOS after you'd verified that the BIOS was flashed successfully?
I update my post and included part picker list of my components and added bios version and psu age and I did not remove cmos battery
 
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Hello, I built a new pc this weekend and after taking it home I booted it up and tried to install windows from a usb drive but I kept getting a blue screen with a message saying my device needed repair so I downloaded it a couple more times and tried again but I kept getting the same message, I thought for some reason maybe an outdated bios was the problem so I downloaded the bios update onto the usb then updated bios, after maybe 5-10 minutes the screen was black and so I turned the computer off then back on and nothing. I then noticed everytime after that happened and I turned the computer on the vga light was solid red on my motherboard. So I tried clearing cmos, taking out components, even when I took out the gpu and tried to hook the hdmi up directly to the motherboard the vga light was still solid red, also the motherboard will not power anything through its usb ports such as keyboard and mouse but it does power the usb drive, I’ve tried different hdmi and DisplayPort cords into the gpu and to the motherboard but nothing is seeming to work, the system turns fine but cant get past the vga light during POST. I’m thinking either I updated to the wrong bios or possibly stopped the bios update. I was thinking of flashing the bios with a usb drive and maybe even getting a bios reprogrammer online and trying to reprogram bios. Any recommendations or suggestions? The specs are an i9-9900k, asus rtx 4070 oc, gigabyte aorus z390 elite, corsair vengeance lpx 32gb (2x16), msi mag 240r, corsair cx750m, nzxt h510.