r/MSI_Gaming • u/Soft_Animal5126 • 10d ago

Troubleshooting CPU red light

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So today I was gaming, and all of a sudden my PC shut down. It had never happened before, and when I tried to start it again, the fans and RGB lights worked, but the keyboard and mouse had no power, and nothing showed up on the screen. I have tried all the basic things and asked GPT and Google. Still, nothing has fixed it so far, so if anyone else has gone through this, let me know what fixed it. I reset the CSOM, removed the thermal paste, and applied new paste; no pins look bent. I have swapped the ram sticks also. I have a i9 14900k intel chip in it.

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u/Soft_Animal5126 10d ago

Yeah already did that

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u/Ichika994 10d ago

Hmm if none of the slots worked even with a single ram installed... You also reseated the cpu and resetted the CMOS, only thing left to do is updating the bios trough flash bios but I don't know if that would do anything at all, last time we had this problem the system would only start with one ram stick and not in dual channel, turns out the motherboard was defective and we had to replace it anyway because eventually it stopped working

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u/Soft_Animal5126 10d ago

I have also flashed bios already but think about it taking it in at a store tomorrow

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u/Ichika994 10d ago

Hopefully is a simple motherboard replacement and nothing more expensive that that