Author: parsec
Subject: OC Formula Z170 Red Light near RAM always on
Posted: 22 Dec 2016 at 1:33pm
No problem, just want to be 100% certain what is happening.
So it's the storage/BOOT LED that remains on. Curious that it will shut off sometimes after changing the memory settings.
Your link to your memory did not work, please try again or if you know the full model number, please let us know what it is.
Apparently you don't have any disappearing drives in the PC?
Do you have any problem entries in Device Manager?
Do you have any USB flash drives or external drives connected to the PC?
What drives do you have in that PC?
Your board has both Intel SATA ports, and four SATA ports provided by the ASMedia chipsets. Do you have any drives connected to the four SATA ports at the bottom of the stack of SATA ports on the left side of the board? Those are the ASMedia SATA ports.
What is the SATA mode set to for each of the two SATA controllers? The default values?
Do you have any type of dual booting OS installation? Anything that is somewhat unusual about your OS installation?
Do you use the Fast Boot option?
The third LED is VGA, anything not quite right with your video source?
Subject: OC Formula Z170 Red Light near RAM always on
Posted: 22 Dec 2016 at 1:33pm
 VanPurren wrote:Yeah sorry about that (I have terrible eyes apparently lol) I'm talking about what would be item 8, and you are right it is actually the 4th light not the 3rd which confuses me even more since changing my ram settings turns it off for me on certain reboots. I haven't seen any error codes or anything for it while the light is on either and am currently in windows with the light on. |
No problem, just want to be 100% certain what is happening.
So it's the storage/BOOT LED that remains on. Curious that it will shut off sometimes after changing the memory settings.
Your link to your memory did not work, please try again or if you know the full model number, please let us know what it is.
Apparently you don't have any disappearing drives in the PC?
Do you have any problem entries in Device Manager?
Do you have any USB flash drives or external drives connected to the PC?
What drives do you have in that PC?
Your board has both Intel SATA ports, and four SATA ports provided by the ASMedia chipsets. Do you have any drives connected to the four SATA ports at the bottom of the stack of SATA ports on the left side of the board? Those are the ASMedia SATA ports.
What is the SATA mode set to for each of the two SATA controllers? The default values?
Do you have any type of dual booting OS installation? Anything that is somewhat unusual about your OS installation?
Do you use the Fast Boot option?
The third LED is VGA, anything not quite right with your video source?