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Question

Red Light going through all sectors

Sep 21, 2017 12:07PM PDT

Hi, I have a visual problem which I dunno how to read as, I bought a new PC with next components:
NZXT S340 kućište belo (CA-S340W-W1)
i7 7700K
GIGABYTE GA-Z270-HD3P rev.1.0
ASUS nVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 192bit DUAL-GTX1060-O6G
KINGSTON DIMM DDR4 16GB (2x8GB kit) 3333MHz HX433C16PB3K2/16 HyperX XMP Predator
CHIEFTEC CTG-650C 650W
COOLER MASTER Hyper TX3 EVO (RR-TX3E-22PK-R1)
2x Cooler VENTILATOR LC Power LC-CF-120 120mm PWM

So what happends is that on boot before Windows loads (on MB bios screen) on Motherboard red light goes through CPU, DRAM, VGA and BOOT and than it boots, everything works regulary apart from from time to time 1 fan (could be cpu fan) speeds up a bit, temperatures idle are 27 celsius and everything works fine, what is the problem and how to resolve it? Thanks in advance.

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Re: red lights
Sep 21, 2017 12:11PM PDT

That's OK. You can say you see it's busy testing the hardware before continuing. If the red light stays on unexpectedly that means something is wrong with that component.
Doesn't the motherboard manual explain it?

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Manual
Sep 21, 2017 3:41PM PDT

CPU/DRAM/VGA/BOOT (Status LEDs)
The status LEDs show the current state of the CPU, memory, graphics card, and BIOS. If particular LED is on, that means the corresponding device is not working normally.
I mean tbh, I have no idea what it means, first time for me to see such thing, I gave big chunk of money which I saved up for very long time so I'm afraid that something isn't right and that I'll have to go through hell to wait up for a week or God knows how long for Support to check what's wrong or whatever the case is, so this isn't any failiure? As I said, I press power button and everything starts, on monitor I have regular Motherboard screen with del / f9 / 12 and esc to choose what I want, leds go 1 by 1 in order CPU/DRAM/VGA/BOOT and the Red Led dissappears after, it takes longer time on VGA and BOOT tho, but it all goes by in around 1 second and PC is up after, I tried googling it up but found nothing only people who cannot boot up PCs, but I'm working normally on it, even tweaked win10 and got everything installed/ updated, is there any case with other MB's or is that a feature I simply never heard off?

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Sounds normal
Sep 21, 2017 12:31PM PDT

Why do you think it's a problem?

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Thank you for your response
Sep 21, 2017 3:42PM PDT

Please read the message I wrote in Reply to Kees_B, I'm just afraid that something is wrong. :/

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Normal
Sep 21, 2017 3:50PM PDT

That's just a feature of the mobo to show you what area the bios is testing during post.
As long as all the lights turn off and windows boots your good.