From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 7/12/2025 12:45 AM, bad sector wrote:   
   > Minutes after the last posts I went into BIOS to take out the CPU native GPU   
   by setting Integrated Graphics to Disabled and leaving the PCIe GPU as   
   Primary. On reboot (NO beeps on the these new boards) got a steady yellow   
   Q-Led mening RAM problems.    
   Reseated one ddr5 card and went with only that one. It worked, reseated the   
   other one too. The yellow LED now lasts about 1:30 and then the white LED   
   (GPU) takes over. This one doesn't leave, not after reseating the GPU, not   
   after removing it and    
   plugging the HDMI into the onboard slot instead of the GPU one, not after   
   changing HDMI cables and even monitor. CMOS was cleared at every step. The   
   green (boot) LED never lights up, with no disk plugged in BIOS is never   
   entered. Starting to have enough    
   of this outfit (the GPU is also Asus)!   
   >   
      
   You have to be very careful, with some of the stuff you mentioned in passing.   
      
   The CMOS can only be cleared, with mains disconnected.   
      
   When reseating materials, it is a good idea to have mains disconnected   
   for that too.   
      
   You can try taking it back to the single-stick-NON-ECC and see if   
   you can bring it up that way.   
      
   1) Power off.   
   2) Remove plugin GPU.   
   3) Put ECC RAM in its antistatic package.   
   4) Put the "teaser RAM" that brought it up one time before,   
      into the far slot on one of the memory channels.   
   5) Plug HDMI monitor cable into motherboard.   
   6) Power up, wait patiently for recovery :-)   
      Remember the annoying habit of "BIOS, taking longer after a change".   
      
   The monitor I'm typing on (X193W 1440x900) is flaking out, I think three power   
   fails   
   and one lightning storm, have disturbed its gentle nature. It's   
   every time it goes into power-save, it is getting very hard to   
   bring it back from the dead.   
      
   It's a good thing I own several mallets.   
      
      Paul   
      
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