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!!!
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 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
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.
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
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
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!
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
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
Got my first PC today and couldn't figure out why the display wasn't shoeing... you are the only person to say that the HDMI needs to be plugged into the Graphics card and not the Motherboard and my problem is solved... Thank you so much
I have a problem with my PC when turning on it says no signal but after turning on and of after a while it finds the TV signal what do u think it could be its not the power supply I changed that and still doing it could it be the graphics card. Its plugged in by HDMI or could it be the cable.
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 👍👍
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!
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 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?
@@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 ?
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.
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...
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!!!
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 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.
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!
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.
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
Thanks so much pc centric. Helped me out so much. Turns out I had mine plugged into the wrong one. Wouldn’t have known unless i watched your video. Keep up the great vids and enjoy your weekend to you sir.
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?
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!!
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
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 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 !
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
BRO U SAVED MY LIfe! i had spent 5 hrs trying to know whats wrong , i even took my ram and checked it on my friends pc . in his computer it was fine but it was not booting on my pc . u really helped with your clear cmos troubleshoot. after doing that it completely worked. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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
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. 😁👍
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?
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! 😁
I've never reset or had to reset my Cmos ever and I've built my last 5 system over the course of the past twenty years. Still not sure what set it off but for some reason my system stopped showing the correct amount of RAM. So I started checking all the bios settings and something set off a ram failure and I spent about three hours freaking out because this computer does all my studio music recording. After exercising all possible alternative including buying a new computer...I went out on a limb and crossed the streams...[the Cmos pegs] and yay it fired up! I probably have as much computer knowledge as is in your pinky finger...just enough to sometimes get me in trouble...case in point. So thanks for the tip...saved my ass much misery!
Thank you so much for the video my dude, found out that my ram died in s middle of a game, to me a full two hours of stress eating before I started doing what you suggested. Great video, good explanation, very helpful. :)
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
Thank you, pretty much your aura made my pc finally post,although I wish I knew what went wrong with it,(taking out and putting in the ram sticks works for me so far)
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.
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?
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!
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.
It finally works thanks! I’m so dumb.. I connected the display cable to the motherboard section and not the graphics card wondering why it’s not displaying anything 🤦🏾♀️
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
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.
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
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
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
Apparently I had a PCIE riser power cable when I plugged in my new SSD and that killed the whole system, swapped it out for a basic power cable and it fixed it. Thanks for the help!
This is how I resolved my PC Boot issue. Had issues with DDR 5 RAM sticks. After lots of trials I found that the PC booted with one stick. The second stick whenever inserted would cause the PC not to post. I then tried finally updating the BIOS to the latest version( BIOS flash switch).Then inserted the second stick of the ram and my PC finally posted without issues.
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.
The funniest part about this is that I took a picture beforehand of where all the wires go. I still ended up plugging the monitor into the motherboard. Thanks for the help!
I know this video is two years old but hopefully u see this. Ur brilliant and helped me watched the video tried everything one at a time and it happened to be the ram was loose and I would never have thought to check that. Thanks so much hoping my pc can last 10 years doing great so far.
I did a bunch of research to try to fix my issue. The motherboard logo turned on but the PC eventually stopped coming on besides that logo. I unplugged everything and plugged it back in and that did the trick. I did install a new PSU that probably didn't require it, but I'm fine with it.
thanks so much this solved my issue. i put my RAM in and it would click but still wouldnt turn on -- this is the only video that showed me that the clasps on the top need to lock themselves and i just had to push the RAM in even more. thanks a lot
Wow!!! Was freaking out until you pointed out how monitor cb plugged into motherboard instead of graphics card! Phew! All fixed!!!! Thank you Thank you!!
Your a legend, when I first made my pc years ago you help me figure out why it wasn’t displaying and when I changed my ssd I was struggling to find how to fix it then I remembered you video went on it and found out there was a problem with dram so thank a lot
I spent days trying to fix my pc to turn on fully. My friend comes over, flips the power switch and presses the power button on top, and it turns on. I started at him with lots of confusion
Thanks so much pc Centric. I was becoming worried that i would have to buy a new cpu or mobo. But, thanks to this video, I learned that it was just the ram!
