Tried CMOS battery reset, red CPU LED and DRAM LED both on and computer won’t work

Posted by xMastoWx@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 6 comments

I bought the parts for this PC a month ago, and after hours of trying to get it to work with both ram sticks in, it would only start with one. Since then, I have tried countless solutions, all of which have made no change, up until now. Last night I did a CMOS battery reset. When I tried turning my computer back on, it started, but the cpu and dram lights turn on and don’t turn off. I get no startup processes at all. Please help.

Mobo: MSI B650M-P Ram: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5200mhz 16GBx2

The mobo features DDR5 compatibility from 4800 up to 6000 mhz. I had the one stick in the DIMMA_2 slot, tried the other in DIMMB_2 when I was optimistic.

To be clear, the PC has been working for the past month with one ram stick in the DIMMA_2 slot.

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Regular-Boat-8829@reddit

Maybe try narrowing it down to a bad RAM slot/stick. Lmk.

xMastoWx@reddit (OP)

The issue has resolved itself, and here is the process:

After a certain point, I became so fed up with this situation that I proceeded to ‘bully’ my pc. I was going to keep turning it on and off until I was satisfied. One of those instances worked for some reason, and I was able to open bios and turn on xmp mode. I then installed the second stick, the computer screen flashed saying that a change to the memory had been made (it has never once done this before), and I told it to startup. I had to reenable xmp mode after (probably picked wrong boot option) but as of right now, everything works. I’m still pretty upset because I still don’t know what the issue was, but for now at least everything works.

JowTheGamer@reddit

I'm about to attempt this combo rn and if that doesn't work I'm going to tear this build apart and return the mobo cpu combo back to Amazon.

Titan67689@reddit

Same situation solution ?

No, i had a dead motherboard

Sorry for you, but mine has already started up. After activating Expo 1 with ryzen mastered, it started not wanting to turn on, or even display the bios menu.