3:15. Those "tiny little cables" messed me up because I didn't have them connected correctly. Went back into the manual and read harder. Found out I needed to switch them around. New build fired up and ran like a champ. Thanks for the help!!!
My pc has always randomly had the DRAM light come one. Sometimes it boots up normally, 25% of the time I get a DRAM issue. Its not the RAM. What else could it be...
I am relatively new to putting PC’s together, though I’m a quick learner. I had the problem with the Power, reset, LED- & LED+ cable, I hadn’t plugged them in properly. I was afraid I had broken something, gettin quite stressed troubleshooting EVERYTHING I could think of. This video was a literal life saver. Thank you
When it’s a hardware problem, get a Beep Speaker, plug it in, and diagnose which part according to how many beeps you hear. Take your GPU and memory out, leaving the other parts in. If it beeps three times, your CPU and motherboard are good. Next put in one of the RAM sticks, should beep 5 times. Put the other Ram stick, then put the GPU.
@@maybealexa5216 nevermind I was a monke, right after this realised I took out the wrong ram, turns out one of them was causing the problem. Checked that first but took out 3 of them and the 1st one again, skipping 4th
Hey mate, late reply - I got the three beeps for cpu and motherboard. Turned off the computer, put a ram stick in, and it rapidly beats when turning the computer on
Im 100% newbie. Pieced it all together and was psyched but hit a wall of rgb working, half the system working and no BOOT. So, all put together and shiny, she sat on my desk for months until I decided to troubleshoot and I didnt even know about the cycle lights! Thank you! I literally just didnt have the ram seated all the way!
@@shahzadFaisal-y5o luckily i solved it along time ago and here is what i watched i watched two main problems the first one and the main one that made me close from giving up was pc running but there is nothing on the monitor and then i used another monitor and i saw things on the screen after that i started solving the second problem and it was (i guess) the bios just got crazy and nothing had a mean or anything i could understand i don’t remember but i tried a lot of times and i don’t know how i just made the system boot I updated the bios and thats it that was my problems and how i solved them i hope i gave you a hint or something useful
BIG thanks! Didn’t switch the PSU button on and was contemplating my life decision to invest so much in a PC that I couldn’t build, cannot explain the relief after watching you mention the PSU switch.
I’m literally in your boat right now. I’m contemplating life rn because something went wrong. I’m hoping it was the ram that wasn’t in properly… but I’m praying
Hey! I have a problem with my computer where the PC would turn on no display but also I can’t turn off the pc I have to turn off power to turn it off. I resetted my CMOS and replaced it but it did not help. What should I do?
2:27. Wow. I had literally just completed my first build and was so upset it didn’t boot up. Silly me had it connected to the motherboard and not the GPU. You are a lifesaver!
Had a problem with the computer not booting up at all, or just flashing power until it stopped. If you have the time or need to make your things work, look into how to set up your motherboard as a "test bench", or just the motherboard on top of a box (typically your motherboard box) and slowly adding components and testing them. Anyways, everything came back fine, but screwing the motherboard into the case caused this to happen again. After some more diagnostics, it turns out one of my screws was shorting out the board.
@@Claymoresmash literally just happened to me, i removed the mobo from the case and didnt mount it with the screws i was using, it actually started up 👍👍
My pc was working but one day it didn’t want to turn on and I have looked for any lights and nothing is on even the leds. I don’t know what to do and I feel like this is somehow my fault for not knowing enough about pcs to fix it
You saved me. Thank you. I love you. I struggled 3 hours and then 2 minutes and 49 seconds in your video everything was solved. I've subscribed, I've liked, I've saved. And now I have commented. Bless you, your family and your loved ones.
My 15 yr old son had been struggling with the display port not connecting to his desktop for a couple months and I came across your video and boom mama fixed it, with your help of course! Lol
Hey so im having an issue where every light except for the dram which is off is red And when i turn on the pc the first few minutes are fine and the pc runs pretty well but then at random times after around 10 to 35 minutes of the pc being on(specifically if its a video game like tf2 or fortnite) the screen turns off and the cpu fan goes wild! What is the issue and how could i fix it?
I got AMD Ryzen 7 5800X up to 4.7GHz, 16GB DDR4, 1TB NVMe SSD, AMD Radeon RX7600XT 16GB with 500W power supply and it randomly shut off and wont turn on could it be that 500W isnt enough?
@@ibrokemyownheart4953 Mine as never thermal throttled... my highest temps was 82c on cpu 80c on gpu while on high demand gaming... I did however install a Noctua top exhaust fan and it helped 2c-3c cooler.
@@unds85 hey man. I just got my omen 30L yesterday. I left it on at night So It could still be downlosding games and rn when I woke up the PC was working like it was with the fans on and led lights, but the screen was not detecting anything, I tried "turning it off" but nothing would happen after pushing the buttong, I had to unplugged the pc on order to get the image in my tv, did you happen to have the same problem at sime point ?
New build but with used CPU, GPU and open box MSI B550 Pro VDH Wifi motherboard, motherboard CPU light shows as lite up white on power on, fans spin including cpu fan, please help!
Great information here, just completed my fourth build and experienced my first boot failure. I was using the RAM, drives and PSU from the previous build, where they worked well. I have to wait till tomorrow to try these steps, but will update this if I can fix it. EDIT: ok, so it's fixed, here's how I got there. I checked over all connections and fired it up again, the EZ debug showed 26 which was confusing because it isn't a listed code, but the time it took to look that up was long enough to realise it was showing the temperature, had it booted and I just couldn't see? Turns out, yes. Out of curiosity I did the opposite of instructions and took my HDMI out of the GPU and put it in the MB, and suddenly there was my bios. I loaded optimised defaults and restarted, couldn't see again, so I moved the HDMI back to the GPU and it showed up, so that was good, but I still couldn't get past bios, it kept going to a blue page saying my PC needed repairing. I then cleared CMOS, and that fixed it, windows started and it was just a case of dealing with apps that didn't like the hardware change. It still has the occasional issue after a restart that the screen is black at the start of windows, but removing and reinserting the HDMI cable fixes this every time, bad cable maybe?
@@yCyanx honestly, because it worked without issue the first two times. Considering it worked this time once CMOS was cleared, I'll probably do it again (so much easier when you don't have to reinstall everything). The HDMI issue was just a bad cable too, so that is unrelated.
I was about to cry after spending all day building my first pc, months of searching for components and It just didn't boot. AND IT WAS THE HDMI ON THE MOTHER, OMG YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW HAPPY YOU MADE ME
I love you. Been trying to figure out my PC for months. I'm no expert when it comes to trouble shooting. 5 minutes of your video gave me the direction of how to find my issue. And, I found it. The PC now boots up. Thank you!!!
Some other reasons/tips; First, check your motherboard manual. Even if you have more than one ram slots generally you need to plug your rams in motherboard manufacturers order, which means let's say you have one ram stick and 4 slots, your motherboard could push you to use the second or the third slot FIRST and then insert other rams to the other slots for electrical reasons. Second, that behavior also could occur in sata sockets, check your pc's boot without sata connectors plugged in motherboard, and if it boots without them that means you need to plug your sata cables at the other sata socket group first. Third and the nastiest one: PSU! I was compeletely lost because I was very sure that every components connections were okay, and since my CPU has igpu I can check pc boots without integrating dgpu but I already plugged my dgpu's power cable to the PSU but the other end was empty. The PSU refuses to give you energy if it's not connected to the hardware. CORRECTION, PSU refuses to give you energy IF it is not THE CORRECT HARDWARE, and that makes Fourth. If you plug some 8 pin connector to the other 8 pin connector slot which belongs to other label that also won't work. May be it's my ASUS PSU's behavior but it's worth to check if you are about to lose it. By the way, this is my first video, liked the content and subscribed.
you seem to know your way, i just built my pc, turns on fine but it won’t boot just a black screen, i’ve done everything i could checked all the cables and very thing and then i watched this video and the only thing left is to clear the cmos. i have other reasons for thinking my pc won’t boot. i have a 12th gen motherboard and just started using it since i didn’t buy a new cpu until this build, but it’s a 13th gen cpu, so maybe i would need to update the bios settings? i’m not quite sure what to do as my motherboard doesn’t have debug lights for whatever dumb reason:/. i have a i9 13900k raptor lake cpu, msi rtx 3060 ventus, 2 16gb corsair vengeance pro rgb sl ram sticks, and an asus prime series Z690M-Plus 4 motherboard, i’m in need of help😅
@@boosted.stangg detach your RAM's, use one stick at each try and use DIMM_A2 slot. check everytime if anything changes. If no changes when you use each RAM stick seperately then unplug your discrete gpu. Your processor has igpu so you can plug your hdmi or which cable you are using to the motherboard. Don't forget to unplug dgpu's cable from the psu also. If you see it's booting, then it could be wrong psu cable outlet or low psu power.
8:49 you actually need a CPU with integrated graphics to be able to access the bios and change the riser cable to Gen 3. if your CPU doesn't have integrated graphics then it would be impossible to boot the pc
Completely new to PCs and your video helped me recognize the meaning behind the motherboard lights. I had assumed that they LOOKED important, but looking closely, the CPU light was red! Very interesting. I just made sure all my connections were solid, and it booted back up again. Furthermore, the display was def plugged into the actual motherboard rather than the graphics card, so I just made a quick switch. Would not have guessed those two to be issues without watching your video...thank you!!!
I have a Ryzen 5 5600g, rx580 2048sp, gigabyte b450 ds3h v2 16gb ram and 256gb m.2 a d 512gb ssd. I bought a 3050 earlier today, uninstall my amd drivers using amd cleanup utility then upon pluging in new gpu it doesnt boot. I tried putting back the old gpu it doesnt boot same results when i plugged in the motherboard. Any solutions?
I watched 3 other videos before yours trying to figure out where the disconnect was and you were the first person to suggest that the HDMI was plugged into the motherboard and not where it needs be. Thank you for the fix! 😅
I had that happen years ago when I first built mine in my teenage years. Took me like 20 minutes to remember that there was a second port on the video card
All im going to say is i spent hours trying to figure this out & guy walked me through it all & told me what the other 400 youtube videos didn’t (motherboard LED constant red on dram). Great video…thank you.
Had a power outage. Windows was freezing constantly especially under heavy CPU load. Reseated everything and then Windows wouldnt even boot! I did notice my RGB memory flashing though. Took out one stick and it booted fine and so far no freezes. Looks like a stick is bad and off to find 1 stick of 16GB since I am sick of 2 and having issues. This PC is open case mounted in a virtual pinball cabinet with a subwoofer and bass shaker so the less hardware the better.
I was sure I wasn't going to learn anything new but decided to watch this video either way. I was aware of everything here except for one thing: I had no idea you can use the Reset CMOS pins while the computer is off! The way I did it was to touch them with the screwdriver while the machine is in BIOS, then watch as it shuts down and restarts with the BIOS settings reset to default. Doing it with the machine off sounds safer, now that I know I'll try that after an upcoming BIOS update. Cheers!
I need help 😢 switched everything from omen 25l only different thing is that instead of 5700g i got a 5800x3d i was already running before the switch to a Asus rog strix b550a ,now i pass all the tests and get a solid green light but nothing on screen ,already updated bios via bios flash back with usb and still nothing,getting solid green everything passes but screen flashes once then no signal to screen and pc is on with solid green light 😩
I can understand if people who buy pre-built systems can make the mistake of plugging in the monitor into the motherboard displayport/hdmi, but someone who knows enough about computers to build it themselves should know that the cable goes in to the graphicscard.
I’ve seen some tutorials that don’t go over that at all. They just build it and show how to get to the bios. So it could happen but rarely bc like you said, someone who knows how to build a pc should know where to plug it in
oh man, I was at this stage at one point, I figured out what I needed to do, but seeing this video just reminded me of what to do if it happened again. Also, I'm lovin the jokes Marcus LOL
Please help. I’ve had my pre built pc for 1 and a half years and I noticed that one of the children in my house spilled water on my gpu. After drying and trying to run it, I’ve come with the problem of my pc turning on and everything in the pc is lit up. It looks to boot up properly although I can’t tell because I don’t get a signal. I really want to figure out what this problem is so I don’t buy a part I don’t need. I’m just suspecting the gpu is water damaged but if anyone else has any suggestions then I’m open to hear them out.
replace all the cable back make sure all those are put inside if you know to replace back your gpu card just do it, or just go to repair shop for solution
@@brycee18 I ordered a new 3060 and it came overnight. It seemed to do the trick and everything is back to normal. Just a water damaged gpu and other issues were from one of my ram sticks not all the way in
I literally had plugged my display port to my motherboard yesterday and almost panicked as I was a newbie. Saw a forum post and connected to graphics card. So I really vibe with this video!!
Really enjoying the videos! Love to see more videos on best CPU/ Graphics cards for video editing. I was looking at a 5600X and a 3060Ti but not sure if the 5600X will have decent render times in Premiere Pro or if I should go for the 5900X but then worried that 3060Ti will be bottleneck with this CPU?
My pc boots up and it lets me enter my bios but when I finish with the bios it just doesn’t display and doesn’t allow me to do anything and my screen just stays black
Really reassuring advice for people considering a D.I.Y. build. For me, knowing everything that COULD go wrong gives a lot of confidence when I might have an issue and can gradually develop a diagnosis without having an immediate panic attack. (Snazzy jokes btw 👍)
bro it doesnt matter your gonna end up spending hundreds maybe thousands on repairs. i can replace every fucking part, do every fucking solution and my shit still wont display
I could use some help. I upgraded my pc to a 4070ti super graphics card with a 1050 watt power supply. Well it worked quite a while. A couple months let's say. Friday night it shutoff on its own like I powered it down and now it won't come back on. I've been through it a couple times still nothing. I'm thinking of taking it to a repair shop.
Thank you for making this. My Alienware Aurora would not turn on and I have brought it to a repair shop nearby, this video helped me understand the why and how. I hate being separated from PC.
Oh my god. You were the ONLY one on the internet mentioning that MAYBE its not an error itself but just that the ram goes faster than the motherboard. THANKS
After hours of beating my head against the wall while trying to boot up my first PC build, I found this lovely video which led me to diagnosing the problem. I had plugged the HDMI cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU... Thanks PC Centric!!!
Double checked all my connections, removed my RAM and put it back in and it WORKED! Thank you! No better feeling than the frustration of a broken PC finally being fixed without having to pay to get it done :D Thank yoooooooou!
Legend! For me, it was RAM that had come unseated from its slot. Thank you for recommending checking the motherboard for LED indicators as to the problem--that solved it!
Thanks mate. I was wracking my brain to figure out what could be wrong. The PC just stopped working, no beep codes, nothing. Only fans spinning. Then you said "reset the CMOS". And voilà! It works again. Thank you!
I've been facing a problem with my gaming pc for a few days now... I am pressing the power button, the liquid cooler's fan led, the front panel fan leds, the ram leds are all lighting up, but the pc itself is not turning on or in simpler ways, it is not showing anything on the screen... My motherboard is of ASRock and I cannot understand what should I do... Any suggestions?
If all the cables are correctly connected and it doesn't boot it's time to start disconnecting components and replacing them with working ones one by one until you get a boot. You might have to take everything out of the case including the motherboard. If you can't do it yourself I suggest you take it to a computer shop and let them fix it.
Thank you for this video! I had just gotten my new pc and was super bummed it wasnt working because I had spent alot on it but this video helped a lot !
The moment I plugged the HDMI into the graphics card. All of my rage just left. 😂 thank you for the simple troubleshooting. I had no idea why I had the black screen of death
If I didn't find this video I would have completely taken my PC apart and rebuilt it to have the same situation. PC wouldn't boot with 2 RAM sticks but with just the 1 inserted it booted just fine. Thx a ton
Question. So I bought a new custom pre built pc! Everything is perfect! Absolutely love it. Except one problem… It does not restart when I press “restart” for updates and etc. What is causing my pc to not restart but stays on and leaves my display black? Also the CPU Red light stays on.
the clear c-mos thing helped me so much thank you so much ive been trying to fix this thing for almost a day now and this is the One thing that helped thank you so much i subed and liked thank you dude
Over the years U=I have built many pcs. But I am diappointed in the documentation (or lack of) Eg the CPU has a trainglel on it - but there is never a really visible triangle on the mother board My mboard has 4 RAM slots and it does not really tell me which ones to use - I have two sticks My motherbaord has two M2 slots and once again I am not sure if I have used the right one - do they both work ? And those front panel connetors are such a pain - especially as they hard to see and get at. I now have an intertesting night ahead! Thanks
Absolute legend. Man I have been searching the web for days only to get to dead ends. Having all possible issues laid out and going through them one by one help me fix this issue. For me it was the BIOS after I did as you said and unplugged the GPU it turns out that the BOIS needed to be rest. so I put the updated version of the BIOS in a flash drive and rest the BIOS thanks for the video man I really appreciate it.
I love how you covered so many different trouble shooting tips in this video!! You’ve given me a list of things I can do to try and save my pc 🥲 yesterday I installed a new CPU and SSD into my pc, and the pc would boot up, but nothing would come on the display. We even tried the motherboard hdmi port and nothing. So today we will be testing the different ram ports and individual sticks (something I didn’t realize you could do) and if that doesn’t work, we will be resetting the cmos and bios. My DRAM light is red but will occasionally flash to the CPU light, which tells me the new cpu is fine but maybe the ram is the problem. Fingers crossed, and will update later after we try to do some more trouble shooting! 😁
Thank you for the video! I just got a 4080 Super and didn’t realize there is a difference between PCIe and CPU cables. Took 3 hours to figure that part out 😅
Thank you so much for this video. I forgot to plug in the front panel that controls the physical power switch and thought I destroyed my CPU while adding a new CPU cooler. Started unplugging and replugging everything in and noticed in minutes. A thousand thanks man!
I've been having the same issue with my PC that I built about 2 years ago. Power button, lights turn on but no boot menu. Fan speed stays on max and I get a red light indicating DRAM. I found the only way to get past it currently is doing a hard reset and hitting the power button again which then brings it to boot. I did do a bios update but I didn't solve the issue. Try diagnosing but basically gave up.
Great video! For me I unplugged the tower and then carefully removed the battery from the motherboard. Pressed power a few times to discharge anything residual and waited about 5 minutes. I replaced the battery and it booted up allowing me to look at the core menus including the bios.
BRO YOU SAVED ME WHEN I WAS UNPLUGGING MY SPEAKERS THE CABLE WAS UNPLUGGED AND I PLUGGED IT INTO THE MOTHERBOARD YOU SAVED ME BY TELLING ME YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO PLUG IT INTO THE GRAPHICS CARD THANK YOU MAN I LOVE YOU
Dude, thank you! My HDMI cable was actually plugged into the motherboard and not the graphics card lol. I accidentally unplugged my PC beforehand and thought I busted it, but this video really helped me out. 😁👍
On a HP desktop. I was experiencing a situation where when you would press the button the lights and fans would turn on only while the button was pressed. It would never boot. It was the dumb battery on the motherboard.
Thank you so much, other videos had me replacing the graphics card, checking the ram, buying a new computer, you fixed my issue in 2 min...plug usb into graphic card not motherboard....Thanks again.
I’m having an issue where my PC freezes when I’m playing games and I need to hard turn off the PC. Then there would be nothing on my monitor but all the lights are on. Ive managed to reset the a reinstall windows but the problem is still occurring. There is a windows update that fails every time but idk if that’s related. After resetting the PC and still having the issue, I’m lost.
Bro can u send me a pc? I've been trying all of these tips and it didnt work because something is damaged and we cant afford a new one because of bills. I hope you see this bro
My Pc currently Turns on (I think) hares how it looks: Power supply, GPU, and MOBO all turn on and start spinning, then a few seconds latter Power supply fan stops spinning but the MoBo and GPU keep spinning, the monitor is plugged into the GPU but nothing appears :( on start or switching the power supply from on to off, a Red light appears on the GPU
Awesome - thank you. Had new build with exactly these problems... power to fans but no power leaving motherboard (and no debug lights / GIGABYTE B650M D3HP). undid all powercables and reinputted, clear CMOS with jumper still no luck. Then took out the DDR and tried one at a time. Suddenly worked for each one single then for both. OS now installed and we have a working first time new build... well, when we get the drivers installed but at least the machine is on and in windows. Keep up the good work.
Help me please!!!! i did all of that and still no display I quadruple check the cable connections, the CPU, the graphic card, the ram and the m.2 I rebuild it twice and still no display. I change the monitor and did not work what should I do? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 all the components are new
Ive have a gigabyte gaming b650 and my system wont show anything on the screen. The dram red light is on. Ive reseated the ram multiple times even switched the ram from my working pc still get nothing all the fans spin lights come on and then after about 3 minutes the computer shuts itself off and turns itself back on and this cycle repeats and nothing still shows on the screen. I dont know what to do at this point
3:15. Those "tiny little cables" messed me up because I didn't have them connected correctly. Went back into the manual and read harder. Found out I needed to switch them around. New build fired up and ran like a champ. Thanks for the help!!!
You solved my problem. 2:03 did it. Ty
Spent hours trying to figure this out just to find out this whole time my RAM wasn’t all the way in 🤦🏽♂️
i put my ram all the way in and it still says no signal :(
@@xepit04yt right
@@xepit04yt I even took em out
@@xepit04yt Damn bro, double check everything else to be safe. good luck
This comment just saved me a lot time thank you 😂😂
My pc has always randomly had the DRAM light come one. Sometimes it boots up normally, 25% of the time I get a DRAM issue. Its not the RAM. What else could it be...
faulty motherboard?
I am relatively new to putting PC’s together, though I’m a quick learner. I had the problem with the Power, reset, LED- & LED+ cable, I hadn’t plugged them in properly. I was afraid I had broken something, gettin quite stressed troubleshooting EVERYTHING I could think of. This video was a literal life saver. Thank you
Saved my life man
Same thing happened to me bro
Why can’t I find mines , just got brand new pc
Same problem but after swapping them and double checking they still don't work
When it’s a hardware problem, get a Beep Speaker, plug it in, and diagnose which part according to how many beeps you hear. Take your GPU and memory out, leaving the other parts in. If it beeps three times, your CPU and motherboard are good. Next put in one of the RAM sticks, should beep 5 times. Put the other Ram stick, then put the GPU.
What if there are no beeps? Even no beep that usually happens when you boot up your pc :(. My parts are like a year old and I got problems already, F
@@maybealexa5216 nevermind I was a monke, right after this realised I took out the wrong ram, turns out one of them was causing the problem. Checked that first but took out 3 of them and the 1st one again, skipping 4th
What if I get the 2 beeps, but nothing when I put RAM that are good from another computer in..??
Hey mate, late reply - I got the three beeps for cpu and motherboard. Turned off the computer, put a ram stick in, and it rapidly beats when turning the computer on
Man ive got the phoenix bios and it first is has a long beep and then two short beeps. Someone help
Im 100% newbie. Pieced it all together and was psyched but hit a wall of rgb working, half the system working and no BOOT. So, all put together and shiny, she sat on my desk for months until I decided to troubleshoot and I didnt even know about the cycle lights! Thank you! I literally just didnt have the ram seated all the way!
i tried all if this. my pc is running but still no monitor output. mouse is lighting up keyboard was not. i don't know what to do.
Bro did you solved it ? my pc is not running too
@@itsTAIP same issue
Did you get it fixed, guess today's my turn?
@@shahzadFaisal-y5o luckily i solved it along time ago and here is what i watched
i watched two main problems the first one and the main one that made me close from giving up was pc running but there is nothing on the monitor and then i used another monitor and i saw things on the screen after that i started solving the second problem and it was (i guess) the bios just got crazy and nothing had a mean or anything i could understand i don’t remember but i tried a lot of times and i don’t know how i just made the system boot
I updated the bios and thats it
that was my problems and how i solved them i hope i gave you a hint or something useful
@@swen1030 read my other reply i hope you find something useful
BIG thanks! Didn’t switch the PSU button on and was contemplating my life decision to invest so much in a PC that I couldn’t build, cannot explain the relief after watching you mention the PSU switch.
I’m literally in your boat right now. I’m contemplating life rn because something went wrong. I’m hoping it was the ram that wasn’t in properly… but I’m praying
Hey! I have a problem with my computer where the PC would turn on no display but also I can’t turn off the pc I have to turn off power to turn it off. I resetted my CMOS and replaced it but it did not help. What should I do?
I have the exact same problem
Bro have you fixed it? Ive the same problem as well
@@VONNATECH-qu6gjanyone
2:27. Wow. I had literally just completed my first build and was so upset it didn’t boot up. Silly me had it connected to the motherboard and not the GPU. You are a lifesaver!
Same here 😅
Had a problem with the computer not booting up at all, or just flashing power until it stopped. If you have the time or need to make your things work, look into how to set up your motherboard as a "test bench", or just the motherboard on top of a box (typically your motherboard box) and slowly adding components and testing them. Anyways, everything came back fine, but screwing the motherboard into the case caused this to happen again. After some more diagnostics, it turns out one of my screws was shorting out the board.
Did your motherboard work properly after you got new screws?
@@alexschwatz1068 yup! Still works today.
@@Claymoresmash literally just happened to me, i removed the mobo from the case and didnt mount it with the screws i was using, it actually started up 👍👍
My pc was working but one day it didn’t want to turn on and I have looked for any lights and nothing is on even the leds. I don’t know what to do and I feel like this is somehow my fault for not knowing enough about pcs to fix it
You saved me. Thank you. I love you. I struggled 3 hours and then 2 minutes and 49 seconds in your video everything was solved. I've subscribed, I've liked, I've saved. And now I have commented. Bless you, your family and your loved ones.
I cant get into the bios because motherboard wont recognize the keyboard
My 15 yr old son had been struggling with the display port not connecting to his desktop for a couple months and I came across your video and boom mama fixed it, with your help of course! Lol
I've changed a setting in the bios called x.m.p and now my PC won't turn on, how can I fix that?
Love seeing an upload from Marcus
Helped me diagnose my first corrupted ram stick. Thanks for the quality video!
Hey so im having an issue where every light except for the dram which is off is red
And when i turn on the pc the first few minutes are fine and the pc runs pretty well but then at random times after around 10 to 35 minutes of the pc being on(specifically if its a video game like tf2 or fortnite) the screen turns off and the cpu fan goes wild!
What is the issue and how could i fix it?
I got AMD Ryzen 7 5800X up to 4.7GHz, 16GB DDR4, 1TB NVMe SSD, AMD Radeon RX7600XT 16GB with 500W power supply and it randomly shut off and wont turn on could it be that 500W isnt enough?
Yes, were you running the GPU on default settings, what setting don you have on in bios for RAM?
500w is not nough get 600 or 700
Omen 30L; "no parts knowledge or build experience required" until you have to swap out partw or upgrade to deal with it's shortcomings.
I just bought a 5600g Omen 30L Hopefully it will last for me
Doesnt it also have a heating problem too?
@@ibrokemyownheart4953 Mine as never thermal throttled... my highest temps was 82c on cpu 80c on gpu while on high demand gaming... I did however install a Noctua top exhaust fan and it helped 2c-3c cooler.
@@unds85 hey man. I just got my omen 30L yesterday. I left it on at night So It could still be downlosding games and rn when I woke up the PC was working like it was with the fans on and led lights, but the screen was not detecting anything, I tried "turning it off" but nothing would happen after pushing the buttong, I had to unplugged the pc on order to get the image in my tv, did you happen to have the same problem at sime point ?
@@juanpena9789 Sorry Juan.... I did not.
New build but with used CPU, GPU and open box MSI B550 Pro VDH Wifi motherboard, motherboard CPU light shows as lite up white on power on, fans spin including cpu fan, please help!
Great information here, just completed my fourth build and experienced my first boot failure. I was using the RAM, drives and PSU from the previous build, where they worked well. I have to wait till tomorrow to try these steps, but will update this if I can fix it. EDIT: ok, so it's fixed, here's how I got there. I checked over all connections and fired it up again, the EZ debug showed 26 which was confusing because it isn't a listed code, but the time it took to look that up was long enough to realise it was showing the temperature, had it booted and I just couldn't see? Turns out, yes. Out of curiosity I did the opposite of instructions and took my HDMI out of the GPU and put it in the MB, and suddenly there was my bios. I loaded optimised defaults and restarted, couldn't see again, so I moved the HDMI back to the GPU and it showed up, so that was good, but I still couldn't get past bios, it kept going to a blue page saying my PC needed repairing. I then cleared CMOS, and that fixed it, windows started and it was just a case of dealing with apps that didn't like the hardware change. It still has the occasional issue after a restart that the screen is black at the start of windows, but removing and reinserting the HDMI cable fixes this every time, bad cable maybe?
Why would you not clear the SSD beforehand. It is not recommended as you changed to a very different platform so obviously there would be bugs.
@@yCyanx honestly, because it worked without issue the first two times. Considering it worked this time once CMOS was cleared, I'll probably do it again (so much easier when you don't have to reinstall everything). The HDMI issue was just a bad cable too, so that is unrelated.
Your comment led me in the right direction... the HDMI cable to my monitor wasn't fully connected
I was about to cry after spending all day building my first pc, months of searching for components and It just didn't boot. AND IT WAS THE HDMI ON THE MOTHER, OMG YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW HAPPY YOU MADE ME
I love you. Been trying to figure out my PC for months. I'm no expert when it comes to trouble shooting. 5 minutes of your video gave me the direction of how to find my issue. And, I found it. The PC now boots up. Thank you!!!
Some other reasons/tips;
First, check your motherboard manual. Even if you have more than one ram slots generally you need to plug your rams in motherboard manufacturers order, which means let's say you have one ram stick and 4 slots, your motherboard could push you to use the second or the third slot FIRST and then insert other rams to the other slots for electrical reasons.
Second, that behavior also could occur in sata sockets, check your pc's boot without sata connectors plugged in motherboard, and if it boots without them that means you need to plug your sata cables at the other sata socket group first.
Third and the nastiest one: PSU!
I was compeletely lost because I was very sure that every components connections were okay, and since my CPU has igpu I can check pc boots without integrating dgpu but I already plugged my dgpu's power cable to the PSU but the other end was empty. The PSU refuses to give you energy if it's not connected to the hardware. CORRECTION, PSU refuses to give you energy IF it is not THE CORRECT HARDWARE, and that makes Fourth. If you plug some 8 pin connector to the other 8 pin connector slot which belongs to other label that also won't work. May be it's my ASUS PSU's behavior but it's worth to check if you are about to lose it.
By the way, this is my first video, liked the content and subscribed.
you seem to know your way, i just built my pc, turns on fine but it won’t boot just a black screen, i’ve done everything i could checked all the cables and very thing and then i watched this video and the only thing left is to clear the cmos. i have other reasons for thinking my pc won’t boot. i have a 12th gen motherboard and just started using it since i didn’t buy a new cpu until this build, but it’s a 13th gen cpu, so maybe i would need to update the bios settings? i’m not quite sure what to do as my motherboard doesn’t have debug lights for whatever dumb reason:/. i have a i9 13900k raptor lake cpu, msi rtx 3060 ventus, 2 16gb corsair vengeance pro rgb sl ram sticks, and an asus prime series Z690M-Plus 4 motherboard, i’m in need of help😅
@@boosted.stangg detach your RAM's, use one stick at each try and use DIMM_A2 slot. check everytime if anything changes. If no changes when you use each RAM stick seperately then unplug your discrete gpu. Your processor has igpu so you can plug your hdmi or which cable you are using to the motherboard. Don't forget to unplug dgpu's cable from the psu also. If you see it's booting, then it could be wrong psu cable outlet or low psu power.
You just saved my life ! I'm building my new PC and I had that black screen and was desperate ! It was my RAM in the wrong slot ! THANKS MY DUDE !
@@tinielcerulis6829 I am really glad that it works for someone, enjoy your build mate!
@@boosted.stanggdid you find an answer? I’m having the same problem right now haha
8:49 you actually need a CPU with integrated graphics to be able to access the bios and change the riser cable to Gen 3. if your CPU doesn't have integrated graphics then it would be impossible to boot the pc
Nah
Spent hours trying to find the right video depicting my issues and finally found it with yours…THANK YOU
I'm looking into building one in the future so this is actually really helpful 😊
Completely new to PCs and your video helped me recognize the meaning behind the motherboard lights. I had assumed that they LOOKED important, but looking closely, the CPU light was red! Very interesting. I just made sure all my connections were solid, and it booted back up again. Furthermore, the display was def plugged into the actual motherboard rather than the graphics card, so I just made a quick switch. Would not have guessed those two to be issues without watching your video...thank you!!!
Omfg... my board was flashing red but I didn't really know what it meant lmao
Unplugged everything and left it for the night
power is green hdd is red cpu doesn't have a light
I have a Ryzen 5 5600g, rx580 2048sp, gigabyte b450 ds3h v2 16gb ram and 256gb m.2 a d 512gb ssd. I bought a 3050 earlier today, uninstall my amd drivers using amd cleanup utility then upon pluging in new gpu it doesnt boot. I tried putting back the old gpu it doesnt boot same results when i plugged in the motherboard. Any solutions?
I watched 3 other videos before yours trying to figure out where the disconnect was and you were the first person to suggest that the HDMI was plugged into the motherboard and not where it needs be. Thank you for the fix! 😅
I had that happen years ago when I first built mine in my teenage years. Took me like 20 minutes to remember that there was a second port on the video card
All im going to say is i spent hours trying to figure this out & guy walked me through it all & told me what the other 400 youtube videos didn’t (motherboard LED constant red on dram). Great video…thank you.
Had a power outage.
Windows was freezing constantly especially under heavy CPU load.
Reseated everything and then Windows wouldnt even boot!
I did notice my RGB memory flashing though.
Took out one stick and it booted fine and so far no freezes.
Looks like a stick is bad and off to find 1 stick of 16GB since I am sick of 2 and having issues.
This PC is open case mounted in a virtual pinball cabinet with a subwoofer and bass shaker so the less hardware the better.
I was sure I wasn't going to learn anything new but decided to watch this video either way. I was aware of everything here except for one thing: I had no idea you can use the Reset CMOS pins while the computer is off! The way I did it was to touch them with the screwdriver while the machine is in BIOS, then watch as it shuts down and restarts with the BIOS settings reset to default. Doing it with the machine off sounds safer, now that I know I'll try that after an upcoming BIOS update. Cheers!
Not plugging it in the gpu saved me from tearing it apart and my mini heart attack! Thank you so much!!
I need help 😢 switched everything from omen 25l only different thing is that instead of 5700g i got a 5800x3d i was already running before the switch to a Asus rog strix b550a ,now i pass all the tests and get a solid green light but nothing on screen ,already updated bios via bios flash back with usb and still nothing,getting solid green everything passes but screen flashes once then no signal to screen and pc is on with solid green light 😩
I can understand if people who buy pre-built systems can make the mistake of plugging in the monitor into the motherboard displayport/hdmi, but someone who knows enough about computers to build it themselves should know that the cable goes in to the graphicscard.
I’ve seen some tutorials that don’t go over that at all. They just build it and show how to get to the bios. So it could happen but rarely bc like you said, someone who knows how to build a pc should know where to plug it in
oh man, I was at this stage at one point, I figured out what I needed to do, but seeing this video just reminded me of what to do if it happened again. Also, I'm lovin the jokes Marcus LOL
Good stuff =D
@@PcCentric Yep :)
I’m having issues where it won’t load up games, or will load it up but will freeze on the game menu. Even tho I have updated the drivers etc
@Jcad Try deleting the games then downloading them again, sometimes apps are just slow and need a manual reboot.
Hey man do you know how I could fix no signal on monitor
Please help. I’ve had my pre built pc for 1 and a half years and I noticed that one of the children in my house spilled water on my gpu. After drying and trying to run it, I’ve come with the problem of my pc turning on and everything in the pc is lit up. It looks to boot up properly although I can’t tell because I don’t get a signal. I really want to figure out what this problem is so I don’t buy a part I don’t need. I’m just suspecting the gpu is water damaged but if anyone else has any suggestions then I’m open to hear them out.
replace all the cable back make sure all those are put inside if you know to replace back your gpu card just do it, or just go to repair shop for solution
@@brycee18 I ordered a new 3060 and it came overnight. It seemed to do the trick and everything is back to normal. Just a water damaged gpu and other issues were from one of my ram sticks not all the way in
I literally had plugged my display port to my motherboard yesterday and almost panicked as I was a newbie. Saw a forum post and connected to graphics card. So I really vibe with this video!!
Easily done!
You helped me get my pc back up and running. Turns out I had a ram stick go out. You sir are a lifesaver
I just got a gaming pc myself and this video actually saved my life more than you could ever imagine u earned urself a new sub man
Really enjoying the videos! Love to see more videos on best CPU/ Graphics cards for video editing. I was looking at a 5600X and a 3060Ti but not sure if the 5600X will have decent render times in Premiere Pro or if I should go for the 5900X but then worried that 3060Ti will be bottleneck with this CPU?
For editing, a 5900x and 3060ti would be great
@@PcCentric Just found and watched your Perfect editing PC build video with this exact spec! 🤦♂️ Thanks for replying! 👍🏻
@@PcCentric is. Ryzen 7 ,5800x good for editing?
@@techinhd3993 yes it is
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Oh man thank you so much! I was all worried that i did something wrong, but i was just using the wrong hdmi port. Really appreciate it!
My pc boots up and it lets me enter my bios but when I finish with the bios it just doesn’t display and doesn’t allow me to do anything and my screen just stays black
Really reassuring advice for people considering a D.I.Y. build. For me, knowing everything that COULD go wrong gives a lot of confidence when I might have an issue and can gradually develop a diagnosis without having an immediate panic attack. (Snazzy jokes btw 👍)
That's exactly what I was going for!
bro it doesnt matter your gonna end up spending hundreds maybe thousands on repairs. i can replace every fucking part, do every fucking solution and my shit still wont display
@@PcCentric i get vga light and cpu and the dram like barely lights up then turns off
Lovw you
Blue screen.
“…unless you’re vegan …and then it’ll save the whole pig”. 00:25 seconds, I’m in. 😂😂😂
Not gonna lie this was probably his best joke to date 😂😂😂😂😂 I legit lol’ed
@@BossLifeCouple a
Guess I'll have another pig to add to the collection
I could use some help. I upgraded my pc to a 4070ti super graphics card with a 1050 watt power supply. Well it worked quite a while. A couple months let's say. Friday night it shutoff on its own like I powered it down and now it won't come back on. I've been through it a couple times still nothing. I'm thinking of taking it to a repair shop.
Thank you for making this. My Alienware Aurora would not turn on and I have brought it to a repair shop nearby, this video helped me understand the why and how. I hate being separated from PC.
More follow up videos like these would be greatly appreciated.
Oh my god. You were the ONLY one on the internet mentioning that MAYBE its not an error itself but just that the ram goes faster than the motherboard. THANKS
After hours of beating my head against the wall while trying to boot up my first PC build, I found this lovely video which led me to diagnosing the problem. I had plugged the HDMI cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU... Thanks PC Centric!!!
What a coincidence seeing this video after having some trouble with my first build 😅 keep up the great content 😁
Did you get it fixed OK?
Double checked all my connections, removed my RAM and put it back in and it WORKED! Thank you! No better feeling than the frustration of a broken PC finally being fixed without having to pay to get it done :D Thank yoooooooou!
Legend! For me, it was RAM that had come unseated from its slot. Thank you for recommending checking the motherboard for LED indicators as to the problem--that solved it!
Thank you so much for the help I was about to literally break down
Thanks mate. I was wracking my brain to figure out what could be wrong. The PC just stopped working, no beep codes, nothing. Only fans spinning. Then you said "reset the CMOS". And voilà! It works again.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for making this video mate! Really helped me out, thank you one million times!😁
Wow, I just bought my first gaming PC and thought it was broke, saw this video and fixed it right away! Thank you!!!!
What was your issue?
@@Uraq1 I didn’t plug my dpi and another cable ”can’t remember the name” into the gpu port
Capper
I've been facing a problem with my gaming pc for a few days now... I am pressing the power button, the liquid cooler's fan led, the front panel fan leds, the ram leds are all lighting up, but the pc itself is not turning on or in simpler ways, it is not showing anything on the screen... My motherboard is of ASRock and I cannot understand what should I do... Any suggestions?
If all the cables are correctly connected and it doesn't boot it's time to start disconnecting components and replacing them with working ones one by one until you get a boot. You might have to take everything out of the case including the motherboard. If you can't do it yourself I suggest you take it to a computer shop and let them fix it.
Thank you for this video! I had just gotten my new pc and was super bummed it wasnt working because I had spent alot on it but this video helped a lot !
The moment I plugged the HDMI into the graphics card. All of my rage just left. 😂 thank you for the simple troubleshooting. I had no idea why I had the black screen of death
I got the problem fixed by that once, but when i plugged out and in once it doesnt work no more... And the pc is like 2hours old lmao
I plugged it into to my graphic card but it still did it work can one of you help me
@@zukye4063 in my case i had to take the ram out and put it in again cause it was installed wrong
@@zukye4063 check the ram, and make sure the board is powered on properly,
So my problem is my pc boots up and everything. And a display pops up on my monitor but the boot light stays on? Any ideas why that is
Got the same problem
Great informative job ! I had a GPU and a ram stick go bad.
If I didn't find this video I would have completely taken my PC apart and rebuilt it to have the same situation. PC wouldn't boot with 2 RAM sticks but with just the 1 inserted it booted just fine. Thx a ton
Same but now how do I enter another ram stick if I want to
so juist tell me how to fix it
@@myers7531 did u fix? MINE starts with 1 ram stick only
@@nisayx yeah same
@@myers7531 i only got 8gb sucks bro. tried so much shit i dont understand
Question. So I bought a new custom pre built pc! Everything is perfect! Absolutely love it. Except one problem… It does not restart when I press “restart” for updates and etc. What is causing my pc to not restart but stays on and leaves my display black? Also the CPU Red light stays on.
Awesome tips right here! Sometimes the best fix is a simple one.
the clear c-mos thing helped me so much thank you so much ive been trying to fix this thing for almost a day now and this is the One thing that helped thank you so much i subed and liked thank you dude
Over the years U=I have built many pcs.
But I am diappointed in the documentation (or lack of)
Eg the CPU has a trainglel on it - but there is never a really visible triangle on the mother board
My mboard has 4 RAM slots and it does not really tell me which ones to use - I have two sticks
My motherbaord has two M2 slots and once again I am not sure if I have used the right one - do they both work ?
And those front panel connetors are such a pain - especially as they hard to see and get at.
I now have an intertesting night ahead!
Thanks
Absolute legend. Man I have been searching the web for days only to get to dead ends. Having all possible issues laid out and going through them one by one help me fix this issue. For me it was the BIOS after I did as you said and unplugged the GPU it turns out that the BOIS needed to be rest. so I put the updated version of the BIOS in a flash drive and rest the BIOS thanks for the video man I really appreciate it.
I love how you covered so many different trouble shooting tips in this video!! You’ve given me a list of things I can do to try and save my pc 🥲 yesterday I installed a new CPU and SSD into my pc, and the pc would boot up, but nothing would come on the display. We even tried the motherboard hdmi port and nothing. So today we will be testing the different ram ports and individual sticks (something I didn’t realize you could do) and if that doesn’t work, we will be resetting the cmos and bios. My DRAM light is red but will occasionally flash to the CPU light, which tells me the new cpu is fine but maybe the ram is the problem. Fingers crossed, and will update later after we try to do some more trouble shooting! 😁
Did it work
F for our brother 🤝
@@trinitylovesyou6868lmao 💀
hey i know im a year late but i literally have the exact same problem do you know how you fixed that?
Thank you for the video! I just got a 4080 Super and didn’t realize there is a difference between PCIe and CPU cables. Took 3 hours to figure that part out 😅
Thank you so much for this video. I forgot to plug in the front panel that controls the physical power switch and thought I destroyed my CPU while adding a new CPU cooler. Started unplugging and replugging everything in and noticed in minutes. A thousand thanks man!
funny to hear "if you are using graphic card" Pc Centric - 2021
I've been having the same issue with my PC that I built about 2 years ago. Power button, lights turn on but no boot menu. Fan speed stays on max and I get a red light indicating DRAM. I found the only way to get past it currently is doing a hard reset and hitting the power button again which then brings it to boot. I did do a bios update but I didn't solve the issue. Try diagnosing but basically gave up.
Love your energy and knowledge, man! Keep up the good work!
This helped boot my first PC build for my kid. Thanks a million.
my cpu fans arent spinning as well as my pc fans, my pc is also not displaying to my moniter. Does anyone have help for this?
this is a new pc with entirely new parts
Great video! For me I unplugged the tower and then carefully removed the battery from the motherboard. Pressed power a few times to discharge anything residual and waited about 5 minutes. I replaced the battery and it booted up allowing me to look at the core menus including the bios.
Thank you so much, super clear and helpful!!!
BRO YOU SAVED ME WHEN I WAS UNPLUGGING MY SPEAKERS THE CABLE WAS UNPLUGGED AND I PLUGGED IT INTO THE MOTHERBOARD YOU SAVED ME BY TELLING ME YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO PLUG IT INTO THE GRAPHICS CARD THANK YOU MAN I LOVE YOU
Great video man… so many hair pulling situations can be solved with a good old fashioned trouble shoot 👏🏻👏🏻
Indeed!
Dude, thank you! My HDMI cable was actually plugged into the motherboard and not the graphics card lol. I accidentally unplugged my PC beforehand and thought I busted it, but this video really helped me out. 😁👍
My pc doesn’t have a gpu because the gpu is built into the cpu so where do I plug in the hdmi
@@joshyy9189 I'd assume to the motherboards hdmi port if you never went and got a better GPU to put in it.
@@joshyy9189 motherboard
On a HP desktop. I was experiencing a situation where when you would press the button the lights and fans would turn on only while the button was pressed. It would never boot. It was the dumb battery on the motherboard.
First and foremost, I loved what you did there with the bacon 🥓 and pig 🐖 joke. Superb line bro 🤙. Thank you for the trouble shooting video!
0:22 I hope it saves me
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The dang light switch controlled my outlets... its fine... lol had me sweating bullets man
Thank you so much, other videos had me replacing the graphics card, checking the ram, buying a new computer, you fixed my issue in 2 min...plug usb into graphic card not motherboard....Thanks again.
Wasted an hour of my life before realizing the cable on my monitor wasn’t plugged in completely 🤦♂️
Thanks for saving me that time, same here 💀🫶
Me and my bros tried to fix this shit for about 5hrs and no shit was turning on untill I wached this vedio😊
I’m having an issue where my PC freezes when I’m playing games and I need to hard turn off the PC. Then there would be nothing on my monitor but all the lights are on. Ive managed to reset the a reinstall windows but the problem is still occurring. There is a windows update that fails every time but idk if that’s related. After resetting the PC and still having the issue, I’m lost.
Bro can u send me a pc? I've been trying all of these tips and it didnt work because something is damaged and we cant afford a new one because of bills. I hope you see this bro
What do I do if my computer turns on for like 15 seconds n turns off and continues to repeat the cycle? I changed my power supply
I just bought the Corsair premium build kit and it’s not playing. Have done everything under the sun. The led’s are not showing any problem. I’m lost
My Pc currently Turns on (I think) hares how it looks:
Power supply, GPU, and MOBO all turn on and start spinning, then a few seconds latter Power supply fan stops spinning but the MoBo and GPU keep spinning, the monitor is plugged into the GPU but nothing appears :(
on start or switching the power supply from on to off, a Red light appears on the GPU
Awesome - thank you. Had new build with exactly these problems... power to fans but no power leaving motherboard (and no debug lights / GIGABYTE B650M D3HP). undid all powercables and reinputted, clear CMOS with jumper still no luck. Then took out the DDR and tried one at a time. Suddenly worked for each one single then for both. OS now installed and we have a working first time new build... well, when we get the drivers installed but at least the machine is on and in windows. Keep up the good work.
THANK YOU FOR THE DRAM ISSUES SOLVING!
I can't even get into the BIOS. My ASRock Debug Display shows Code 04 "PCH initialization after microcode loading".
I got an issue where power on button does nothing sometimes, and sometimes my pc turns on.
Any idea what that could be?
Bad cable or loose connection maybe?
Help me please!!!! i did all of that and still no display I quadruple check the cable connections, the CPU, the graphic card, the ram and the m.2 I rebuild it twice and still no display. I change the monitor and did not work what should I do? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 all the components are new
Buy a new pc
Does your motherboard have a diagnostics light? That can help guide you where the problem may be at.
Ive have a gigabyte gaming b650 and my system wont show anything on the screen. The dram red light is on. Ive reseated the ram multiple times even switched the ram from my working pc still get nothing all the fans spin lights come on and then after about 3 minutes the computer shuts itself off and turns itself back on and this cycle repeats and nothing still shows on the screen. I dont know what to do at this point