VGA LED stuck on

drjme

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Oct 28, 2011
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Hello,

I've been through these threads but cant seem to find that works for me. I've just assembled a asus M5 a97 evo mobo, Athlon II X2 260 and 1 4gb stick Strontium 1333 ddr3, and Palit nvidia GTX460. All installed and connected my old hardrive, got CPU light ok, ram ok, GPU ok (at this stage) and windows splash screen to load. just before log in I get the BSOD flash thats too fast to read and then it reboots. It seemed that it didn't like my new hardware so I got a new hard drive connected it up and installed windows all fine. now I then went to do a repair (from the windows install disc) on my original hard drive. It reapired (or so I think because now the PC wont boot now).
so after all this, now when I power on CPU light flashes ok , ram flashes ok, but it hangs on GPU LED. the longest I've let it go for is 5 minutes.
I've swapped 2 graphics cards between both ports, reseated CPU, RAM and GPU, checked all jumpers, removed cmos battery for 10 minutes, disconnected everything and just run the basic hardware.....
It worked fine until I done the Windows repair on my old hard drive (i've been trying all this with the new working HDD btw). Any help or ideas greatly appreciated!

only thing left to do is change PSU? or faulty mobo? worked initially though....
 

clutchc

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Probably not much help, but whenever you install just 1 stick of RAM in a DDRx board, you won't be getting the advantage of double data rate RAM. It takes two identical sticks in the proper slots to accomplish that.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A97_EVO/
And it's possible you have the single stick in the wrong slot for trouble-free operation. See your manual.