Question- for those with the z390 Designare MOBO. Started putting everything together to test system what’s the normal operation of these LED’s on the MOBO after putting everything together and hitting the power switch computer powers on fans and cooler turn on then shuts off powers back on.
Cpu led blinks once
Dram blinks once- stays on
I can boot into bios and everything looks like it’s visible CPU and temps seem fine ram recognized went thru and tried diff configs of ram in sockets seemed fine all working and visible. And lights seem to turn off when I enter bios.
can someone tell me what their boards under normal operation do or look like?
The board will turn on and then off, it may do this up to 3 times, as it is running tests and trainings. Once this happens, the board should turn on normal as long as the power is kept on to the power supply/board. If you unplug power or turn off breaker on power supply for a while, the board may run the same procedure again when you boot it.
Regarding lights, if you are talking about lights on the board itself, I can't remember if it is this board exactly, but think this board has the lights that will turn on and blink with certain patterns (similar to beep codes) if there is an issue. Otherwise they will turn on but then off if everything is fine; so if that's what you are experiencing, this is normal. If all seems fine in BIOS, all devices showing, memory showing at proper voltage and size/speed (rmember to check XMP profiles), then you should be OK. If there is something wrong with the components or board itself, the board would usually not POST, meaning you probably wouldn't even be able to get into BIOS.
BTW, if you don't have a bootable device attached to the board (internal or external drives), the board will automatically launch BIOS or ask you to insert a bootable device; this is also normal.
A few tips:
once you build the machine, if you are using 2 RAM sticks only, use the slot closest to CPU, then skip one, then place the second stick on the third slot. This will get your RAM showing up correctly (bank 0 dimm 0 etc) in clover/system info/memory.
Also, once you have set the BIOS and selected a memory profile (XMP), I'd suggest downloading memtest86 and running it; if there is anything wrong with your RAM, it should be able to point it out.
Finally, if you want to double check that board and components are booting fine, if you have a CMOS speaker lying around, plug it in and make sure that you are just getting a single short beep at boot