Issues with a new build

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Arpit Sharma

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Hey everyone,
Need help with my new build:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX WIFI DDR5 AM5
RAM: ADATA XPG Lancer Blade RGB 32GB (16GBx2) 6000MHz DDR5
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x
GPU: Sapphire Pulse 6700XT OC (got it second hand)

The motherboard behaves oddly - turning on the monitor before the system works fine, but booting the system first triggers a red VGA light on the motherboard and no display on the monitor (though the system runs). Force-shutdown and trying again with fingers crossed is the only fix. In this particular case, if I long press the power button, the system shuts down but led on the fans doesn't (this doesn't happen after a normal shutdown). I've seen similar reports online as well as Reddit threads about similar Gigabyte board issues I can share. but can't establish a pattern yet. This might be connected to my GPU issues.

The GPU completes Furmark but crashes minutes after closing. MSI Kombustor crashes the PC within 2-3 minutes. Artifacts appear after rebooting until a second restart. I hear coil whine/fan noise under load. I'm also seeing a lot of Critical "Event 41 Kernel-Power" errors in my Windows 11 logs, logged at seconds before crashing.

While the PSU is new, I'm not ruling it out. I'm arranging a GPU replacement with the guy and will test with my GTX 1080 tonight. I don't think its the CPU or the RAM.

Anyone faced this? Suggestions to possibly understand the issue or troubleshoot it are welcome :)
 
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Arpit Sharma said:
The motherboard behaves oddly - turning on the monitor before the system works fine, but booting the system first triggers a red VGA light on the motherboard and no display on the monitor (though the system runs).
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I have gigabyte B650m ds3h, and it does the same. Monitor has to be running else it wont boot and gives gpu error code beeps.
I just assumed that's how the bios is, it works without problem if monitor is on which is fine for me.

PC and monitor both share the same extension board in my case, so monitor turns on once I switch it on, before starting the desktop. Only if i had manually switched off the monitor, then i get this error.
 
Tracer_Bullet said:
I have B650m ds3h, and it does the same. Monitor has to be running else it wont boot and gives gpu error code beeps.
I just assumed that's how the bios is, it works without problem if monitor is on which is fine for me.
They both share the same extension board, so both turn on together if i haven't turned off the monitor.
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Oh yeah that's good to know, I'll see if its consistently the same behaviour, I don't usually turn my monitor off anyway. But still annoying and should not happen -.-

There is a setting in the bios where you can change the selection of video output from auto to always pcie. If you have that option, can you try that and see if it changes anything or not. In my case, anyway having a faulty graphic card, that setting forced me to reset my bios as I stopped getting any output


Also wanted to ask, if the monitor is off when turning on the PC and the GPU error shows up. What is the way to get out of that except switching the entire thing off and do you also get the same behavior as mine, where the switching off results in the motherboard sort of hibernating (fans getting light but not spinning etc) and not shutting down
 
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There is a setting in the bios where you can change the selection of video output from auto to always pcie. If you have that option, can you try that and see if it changes anything or not. In my case, anyway having a faulty graphic card, that setting forced me to reset my bios as I stopped getting any output
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Dunno, the problem is a non-issue for me so i did not really look into it.

Arpit Sharma said:
Also wanted to ask, if the monitor is off when turning on the PC and the GPU error shows up. What is the way to get out of that except switching the entire thing off and do you also get the same behavior as mine, where the switching off results in the motherboard sort of hibernating (fans getting light but not spinning etc) and not shutting down
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I have had this error beep before when gpu went bad. I don't think there is anything to do but turn on monitor and do hard restart.
I have never had the other issue ( or never noticed dunno).
 
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