Question Motherboard Amber Light On New PC Build.

[fjb1933pontiac]

Just finish building a PC with ASUS Prime H410M-A/CSM LGA 1200 motherboard, with Intel 4-core i3-10105T 10th Gen processor, Cosair 650 watt PS, Nvidia GTX 1070 8Gb Graphic card, 2 ea. Cosair Vengeance Pro Memory, 2 ea. Netac 500GB SSD.
Here's what happens. Amber solid light comes on motherboard as I plug in the power cord to power supply, and when I turn on the computer the amber light goes to a "on and off" pattern..slowy flashes. This amber light is located behind the microphone ports on the left side of the motherboard.
Here's what I have done. I switch out the 650 watt PS to another 650 watt PS from a running desktop. switch graphic cards from another running PC, switch memory sticks from another running PC, removed all SSD drives, graphic card and the amber light still lights up when I plug in the power cord to back of the computer case.
Any other solutions that I can do?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Anyone building computers ought to have a set of tools. Along screwdrivers and pliers, there are also a few essential others like PSU tester, voltmeter, tweezers, magnifying glass... and a motherboard speaker (it doesn't even have to cost anything, you can salvage one from older machines).

 

[Muadib]

Maybe I missed it, but my current board doesn't have a place to wire up a speaker. It's not even mentioned in the manual.

 

[igor_kavinski]

my current board doesn't have a place to wire up a speaker.

Possibly replaced with a status LED.

 

[Muadib]

Possibly replaced with a status LED.

That makes sense, it has one of those. The placement of it sucks though. I would have to remove at least one ram stick to read it.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I would have to remove at least one ram stick to read it.

Or use a tiny mirror placed at an appropriate angle, if possible.

 

[Muadib]

Or use a tiny mirror placed at an appropriate angle, if possible.

I will look for one, thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Maybe I missed it, but my current board doesn't have a place to wire up a speaker.

I've never seen a board yet that's missing the 4-pin SPKR header for the beeper, unless it already had one on the board.

It's not even mentioned in the manual.

Seems... unlikely to me.

Edit: Hold up, if the pictures of a 410 board earlier in this thread are your board, then I would go for some eye- and possibly cognitive testing - "Chassis Speaker" is literally silk-screened on the board; it's a 4-pin headed above the front-panel header (as it often is).

 

[Muadib]

I've never seen a board yet that's missing the 4-pin SPKR header for the beeper, unless it already had one on the board.

Seems... unlikely to me.

Edit: Hold up, if the pictures of a 410 board earlier in this thread are your board, then I would go for some eye- and possibly cognitive testing - "Chassis Speaker" is literally silk-screened on the board; it's a 4-pin headed above the front-panel header (as it often is).

It's not my board. I just got the board I was talking about last weekend. It's the Asus ROG Crosshair X670E. The manual is online if you want to take a peek.

 

[In2Photos]

It's not my board. I just got the board I was talking about last weekend. It's the Asus ROG Crosshair X670E. The manual is online if you want to take a peek.

You motherboard has Q-LED (CPU [red], DRAM [yellow], VGA [white], Boot Device [yellow green]) and Q-code (provides a 2 digit code in the top right of the board).

 

[RLGL]

Every build I do has a speaker installed.

 

[Muadib]

You motherboard has Q-LED (CPU [red], DRAM [yellow], VGA [white], Boot Device [yellow green]) and Q-code (provides a 2 digit code in the top right of the board).

Thanks but I knew all that. I read the manual most of the time.

 

[bigboxes]

I found this...https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1046157/

You found this link. You said this light flashes slowly upon boot. How slowly? Your link has two different scenarios. A two second slow flash (no VGA/VGA error) or a four second flash (no boot device/boot device error).

 

[AnitaPeterson]

You found this link. You said this light flashes slowly upon boot. How slowly? Your link has two different scenarios. A two second slow flash (no VGA/VGA error) or a four second flash (no boot device/boot device error).

Actually.... if you read the whole thread, we figured out it was the ornamental LED strip on the board, even though the OP thought it was a diagnostic light.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Seeing that there's no speaker pins on the X670 posted by Muadib gives me chills.
Like the disappearance of the headphone jack, it feels profoundly unsettling and of dubious trade value.
In the case of the X670, at least there's a digital readout replacement.
Although what's the economic gain for Asus from eliminating a few solder traces and a two-pin terminal?

I would venture to guess a good chunk of the posts complaining about various booting problems in various forums and social media wouldn't exist if the PC builders had bothered to use a cheap speaker to hear what their boards are trying to communicate.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I would venture to guess a good chunk of the posts complaining about various booting problems in various forums and social media wouldn't exist if the PC builders had bothered to use a cheap speaker to hear what their boards are trying to communicate.

Why even beeps? They could use a voice playback chip now on the mid range to high end boards to actually tell the user what the issue is.

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