Impossible to boot, orange light on motherboard

Hi,

For the past few days, I've been having a problem with my PC. I'm unable to boot after enabling XMP to run my RAM at its rated speed of 3666 MHz.

I found that changing this setting can sometimes cause this issue, but now I'm stuck because I can't boot into the BIOS to disable it.

I've already tried:

  • Moving the RAM sticks to different slots
  • Booting with only one RAM stick
  • Replacing the RAM sticks
  • Clearing the CMOS by shorting the pins with a screwdriver
  • Removing the CMOS battery

Unfortunately, none of these steps solved the problem.

My PC specifications:

  • Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (or Ryzen 5 5600/5600X if that's what you actually have, because "Ryzen 5 5800" doesn't exist)
  • GPU: Sapphire RX 7800 XT (if that's what you meant; there is no RX 7080 XT)
  • RAM: 2 × 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3666
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u/Creepy_You_4849 — 1 day ago
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Impossible to boot, orange light on motherboard

Hi,

For the past few days, I've been having a problem with my PC. I'm unable to boot after enabling XMP to run my RAM at its rated speed of 3666 MHz.

I found that changing this setting can sometimes cause this issue, but now I'm stuck because I can't boot into the BIOS to disable it.

I've already tried:

  • Moving the RAM sticks to different slots
  • Booting with only one RAM stick
  • Replacing the RAM sticks
  • Clearing the CMOS by shorting the pins with a screwdriver
  • Removing the CMOS battery

Unfortunately, none of these steps solved the problem.

My PC specifications:

  • Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (or Ryzen 5 5600/5600X if that's what you actually have, because "Ryzen 5 5800" doesn't exist)
  • GPU: Sapphire RX 7800 XT (if that's what you meant; there is no RX 7080 XT)
  • RAM: 2 × 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3666
u/Creepy_You_4849 — 1 day ago