Build issues

Dawelio

Active member
Heya everyone,

So I've run into a roadblock here fellas and I've never experienced something like this before. Just a heads up, this will be a rather long read.

Today I tried to rebuild my own PC; 3700X, B550-F, 1080 Ti, 970 EVO 2TB into the NR200P. With the only difference is the 970 EVO to an 980 PRO 2TB.

The building went well, but upon powering it on, it just keeps getting stuck on a solid white LED, which according to the manual is VGA. I tried 2 different GPUs, 980 Ti and 1080 Ti, same issue. Tried only 1 stick of ram, tried re-seating them both, no luck. Tried re-seating the 1080 Ti, no luck. Tried re-seating the CPU, no luck.

I also tried to build my mother a new PC; 5600, B550-I Strix motherboard, 32GB LPX RAM, 980 TI, 980 PRO 1TB and it's the same issue.

What's even stranger is that I was just so tired with this white LED roadblock that I just put her 980 Ti back into her old PC to let her have her old one... Now that doesn't work at all. Windows seems to be bricked. It just boots to the Windows logo, then goes black and then the ASUS post logo appears again and it can't get past the Windows animated thingy.

Repair doesn't work either, I took a photo of the screen below and Googling it, it seems that an text file has gone bricked in the registry? However the frog that happened... Never experienced this before. Just literally taking an GPU out and then installing it again, bricked Windows?... That's a new one for me.

The main issue now is that I have 2 x B550-I's, that both are Ryzen 3000 and 5000 ready, and both are stuck on the solid white LED upon powering on. I see the monitor has a signal from the DP cable, but it doesn't even boot into the BIOS. My keyboard and mouse light up, but completely black screen and solid white LED.

My head is completely done from doing this for the past 9 hours... Anyone that has gotten any clues or potential fixes on how to proceed with this one?. I am rather sad that I might have bricked my moms PC by simply taking out and putting in the GPU. So baffled honestly.

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Can you try manually setting PCIE to Gen3 for GPU? The only thing that comes to my mind is conflict with Gen3 lanes for GPU, and Gen4 lanes on SSD. There were similar issues with Gen3 riser cables. Can you boot without an m.2 SSD or with SATA SSD?


Edit: On the Windows side it is mostly black magic. When I encounter stuff like this I usually back the system drive (either whole with Clonezilla or important personal files from desktop, documents, etc) then I try with repair from WinUSB. If that fails then it is a complete reinstall of Windows. Use Fedora or Mint linux USB for Live mode because new Ubuntu often has a strange driver issue with GPU when it completely messes up the picture.
 
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I had something kind of similar when switching GPUs.

Had to reset BIOS/CMOS and reinstall Windows from scratch using a creation tool on a USB drive.
 
Does booting in windows safe mode work for you?
Also is the bios looking in the wrong place for windows? most people have windows as a C: drive, yours shows G.

Maybe you plugged the SSD in a different sata port so it plays up with the bootmanager.
 
[FONT=&quot]Well that’s interesting… I managed to get my NR200 working. Strangely enough though, it works just fine with my 2080, but my 1080 Ti I get the white VGA light everytime. Even though it has worked just fine in my Torrent build?? [/FONT]
 
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