Asus M5a97 EVO R2.0 red LED's and no display

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

Hey all,
I recently built a pc for myself and when I went to boot it up for the first time I had some problems.
First of all the motherboard has 2 red lights, the VGA LED and the BOOT DEVICE LED. what do these mean and how can I fix them.
second when I boot up my computer, I get no display on my screen. I get one short beep. followed by one continuous beep and three short beeps. Can someone help me to figure this out. I am happy to send photos!

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

here is my specs.
Motherboard: Asus M5a97 EVO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX6300
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 (yes I know it isn't great but it should do the job for the games I play)
Case: Deepcool Tesseract
RAM: 2x4 Kingston HyperX Fury
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo
Power Supply: Cooler Power GX 850

Muffinstumps · Aug 22, 2016

Well according to https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1029959 it is a VGA issue. This could mean your GPU is not seated properly, the PCIe port is toast, or if worse comes to worse it could be a GPU failure. Try re-seating your GPU and making sure if it firmly in. If that fails you can make sure that your PCIe ports are clean. If that fails you could try moving your GPU to the second PCIe port. Maybe try booting the PC via integrated graphics? if that works than I am almost certain it is a GPU failure. Keep us up to date on your progress! Best of luck!

Muffinstumps · Aug 22, 2016

Also check out this forum http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1879249/vga-detected-long-short-beeps.html

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

Muffinstumps :

I'll try that out but there shouldn't be a problem with the graphics card as it literally arrived in today. I will repor tback once I have tried this

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

also I have nothing connected to the pcie ports, nor anything that can connect to the pcie ports. my graphics card has no cords on it nor does anything attatch to it

Muffinstumps · Aug 22, 2016

Apologies.. PCIe x8 port. Just replace whenever I said PCIe to PCIe x8. GT 610 is obviously not a PCIe card

Muffinstumps · Aug 22, 2016

Unless your motherboard has a PCIe x16 port. Sorry I'm not super knowledgable about ASUS motherboards

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

its the x8 port. and that seems to be pretty fine. tried re-seating the graphics card 3 times and changed the ports but to no avail. at one point the ram wasn't properly connected but i fixed that and I did a cmos reset however I cannot seem to get anything going. wondering if maybe this problem is just that the graphics card is too old?

Muffinstumps · Aug 22, 2016

It could be, but i highly doubt that is the issue. Have you tried removing the GPU and running from intergrated graphics?

Paul NZ · Aug 22, 2016

Look at the sticker on the mobo. At the end of one of them (if there's more than 1) there's 4 numbers like 1006.

What are the numbers? The BIOS needs BIOS 1006 to support that CPU

The manual will tell you what those leds mean. If it doesnt have 1006 on the sticker, update the BIOS using BIOS flashback

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

Muffinstumps :

i'm not able to as the motherboard has no dvi, vga, hdmi or dp ports for me to connect my monitor. I had originally planned to run integrated graphics but realised I was unable to due to the lack of these ports on my motherboard. any other way I might be able to run integrated graphics?

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

Paul NZ :

wow oops, picked as solution accidentally
I will try this but I don't know how to update the bios without being able to see the display.
numbers are 2232
pcpartpicker said they were compatible tho

Paul NZ · Aug 22, 2016

There is no 2232 BIOS. So youre looking at the wrong sticker. It goes from 2201 to 2501 to 2603 which is the latest BIOS

CPU's maybe compatible but the BIOS thats on the mobo when you buy it has to support it

Like I said use bios flashback. Read the manual. Just as long as the PSU is connected you can flash a BIOS

Shaun o · Aug 22, 2016

On Asus boards the red lit led lights in any section relate to a problem with the device connected to the motherboard.

The red lit led light for the graphics card when lit is saying the graphics card is not detected in the pci-e card slot of the motherboard.

The reasons for this are because you have connected the 24 pin main Atx power block from the Psu of the system.
But you have not.

A: connected the 12v eight pin E-tax power block, 12v Eps power block to the motherboard from the Psu.
B: That you have not connected the required power from the Psu of the system from the provided 12v Pci-e power connectors to the graphics card its self.

As for the red lit Led boot light, if it is lit solid.
It is saying that no boot able device could be found, or the selected first boot device could not be booted from Shock proof.

A: The cause is in the bios the first boot device or hard disk drive is not selected correctly that contains windows os on it.

B: You have not yet installed or formatted the drive.
The Interface mode settings for the Sata ports of the motherboard are set wrong in the bios.

Ie: set to Sata, when Ahci mode should be selected.

C: That you have not connected the Sata data cable from the drive to a sata data port or connector of the motherboard, or the required Sata power connector from the Psu in the system to the drive.

Deal with the red light lit for the graphics card first of all to do with power.
And the correct setting selected in the bios of the first graphics device to be initialised set to Pci-e as the interface type.

And next of all if that light goes out after the set changes and checks for power are done.
Move on to the lit Boot device led showing and lit up red ShockProof.

If your wandering how I know, it is because I have a Asus M5A99X Evo 2.0 motherboard with the same error light signals.
A red light always indicates a problem with that bit of hardware connected to the motherboard via the interfaces of the board.

Either due to a lack of power, or incorrect bios selection for the hardware Shockproof.

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

Shaun o :

On Asus boards the red lit led lights in any section relate to a problem with the device connected to the motherboard.

The red lit led light for the graphics card when lit is saying the graphics card is not detected in the pci-e card slot of the motherboard.

The reasons for this are because you have connected the 24 pin main Atx power block from the Psu of the system.
But you have not.

A: connected the 12v eight pin E-tax power block, 12v Eps power block to the motherboard from the Psu.
B: That you have not connected the required power from the Psu of the system from the provided 12v Pci-e power connectors to the graphics card its self.

As for the red lit Led boot light, if it is lit solid.
It is saying that no boot able device could be found, or the selected first boot device could not be booted from Shock proof.

A: The cause is in the bios the first boot device or hard disk drive is not selected correctly that contains windows os on it.

B: You have not yet installed or formatted the drive.
The Interface mode settings for the Sata ports of the motherboard are set wrong in the bios.

Ie: set to Sata, when Ahci mode should be selected.

C: That you have not connected the Sata data cable from the drive to a sata data port or connector of the motherboard, or the required Sata power connector from the Psu in the system to the drive.

Deal with the red light lit for the graphics card first of all to do with power.
And the correct setting selected in the bios of the first graphics device to be initialised set to Pci-e as the interface type.

And next of all if that light goes out after the set changes and checks for power are done.
Move on to the lit Boot device led showing and lit up red ShockProof.

If your wandering how I know, it is because I have a Asus M5A99X Evo 2.0 motherboard with the same error light signals.
A red light always indicates a problem with that bit of hardware connected to the motherboard via the interfaces of the board.

Either due to a lack of power, or incorrect bios selection for the hardware Shockproof.

worth noting, my graphics card doesn't need any cords plugged into it, as it has no ports to have leads running into it. As for the boot setup, its hard to do that when I don't have any video displaying. i need a little more help here

ShockProof · Aug 22, 2016

here are some photos of the pc
http://i.imgur.com/Yon908w.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/V2KJMXg.jpg

ShockProof · Aug 25, 2016

Hey all, after working around and tweaking with my computer, I found that hitting the MEMok button while the computer is turned on fixes the problem, but not necessarily on the first try. Thanks all for the help. bye

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