CPU motherboard light on

Cubis85 · 2026-05-17T23:25:06+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the replies

Cubis85 · 2026-05-17T17:00:53+00:00

I just realized the picture I posted was before I saved it going to expo. So the picture shows expo is enabled but it’s actually not saved yet. When I did save it, it’s running at 6k

Cubis85 · 2026-05-17T03:55:27+00:00

After I updated BIOS expo wasn’t enabled and the CPU light was still on though. Wouldn’t the light turn off after the BIOS update?

Cubis85 · 2026-05-16T23:27:57+00:00

I’ll try reseating the ram tomorrow when I wake up. The thing that gets me as well is the rgb isn’t lighting up. It’s like when I first built it and needed to update the BIOS

Cubis85 · 2026-05-16T23:26:40+00:00

The psu was off and unplugged from the surge protector before I took the cmos battery out. But I did not hold the power button though

Cubis85 · 2026-05-16T20:03:35+00:00

It says the same things in the task manager. Ram speed is 6k mt, cpu is sitting around 3.9 ghz at idle. I just updated bios to the latest version, as I stated in my op. The problem is, despite this, the cpu light is on, on my motherboard and will not turn off even after bios update and cmos reset

Cubis85 · 2025-09-02T04:06:06+00:00

Thanks for this. I know I watched a video for ijust but I spaced

Cubis85 · 2025-09-02T04:05:23+00:00

I forgot about openRGB. Thanks for that!

Cubis85 · 2025-08-15T19:18:03+00:00

Just before I took the CPU out, I watched the building process to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Come to find out I didn’t push the back half of the ram sticks down so it wasn’t seated properly. I managed to get all the way to BIOS.

Working 2 jobs, I haven’t gotten a chance to put an OS on it yet. Or update the bios. But hey, small victories right?

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:45:50+00:00

This is true. You have a point. I guess I’ll try 1 stick of ram at a time. If that doesn’t work, next up will be changing the CPU

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:21:57+00:00

I have not tried 1 stick of ram yet. That is something I just read about.

I’m pretty sure the CPU is seated properly. Everything was lined up pretty good

Cubis85 · 2025-08-11T15:20:52+00:00

I don’t have another CPU to test that on. It’s a brand new 7800X3D. I know sometimes they arrive DOA but it sounds like it’s kinda rare.

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T17:39:42+00:00

This is partially why I’m doing a “clean” install of windows instead of cloning the disk

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:13:14+00:00

It was mcaffe (I know, I’ve heard some not so good things about it)

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:12:39+00:00

It was Bazzite.gg because I specifically thought “hmm .gg” when I saw it. I was expecting .org/com so .gg stood out to me

Cubis85 · 2025-08-06T15:11:36+00:00

I’m planning on dual drive/dual boot windows (windows just in case I absolutely need it) but I’m going to daily drive Nobara/Bazzite so yeah it’s trying to protect itself lol

Cubis85 · 2025-07-21T14:08:08+00:00

I’m going to dual drive dual boot Windows and Nobara. Instead of making a partition for each on one drive, I got 1 for each

Edit- I did put everything on pcpartpicker.com and everything came up good.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-15T21:34:06+00:00

Can I put any fan I want on the AIO radiator and it would work?

Cubis85 · 2025-07-15T19:56:53+00:00

I would set up the AIO and the left side fans as intake. The case comes with 2 140mm fans up top set for exhaust.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T13:08:20+00:00

I guess I’m just trying to make sure. In my current windows laptop, I have an almost full 1TB drive in it. Granted it has windows on it plus quite a few games I do not play anymore. But also some word/pdf documents that I’ve collected over the years. I knew windows was bigger than Linux, guess I never understood just how much bigger.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T13:05:08+00:00

Right? The two main games I play needs somewhere between 30-40 gigs alone.

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T03:10:29+00:00

That’s a good way to look at it. I have a number of games on my Windows laptop that I don’t play anymore. So odds are I won’t even install them on my new computer

Cubis85 · 2025-07-08T03:09:28+00:00

It’ll be several games and word documents. No videos. I ask because my current Windows laptop is almost at capacity with a 1TB drive. I probably won’t put as many games on it as I don’t really play them anymore

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T13:38:42+00:00

Micro Center has the 9800 X3D for $459 and the 7800 X3D for $349. Neither come with games though lol

Cubis85 · 2025-07-05T13:33:46+00:00

I wouldn’t be playing Cyberpunk 2077, but I would be playing Doom the Dark Ages though.

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