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New Custom Build Won't boot up, red lights on motherboard.
Hi,
This is my first ever custom build so I am a bit stumped by this issue.
I have connected all of my parts but when I try to boot up my PC, I am not getting to the BIOS screen. My Asus Z170-A motherboard has a Nvidia GTX 980 Ti graphics card and when I hit the power button, a red light appears next to the 'input' for where you plug the card in. This stays on for around 15 seconds then goes off. (The graphics card does light up and powers on, the fans start spinning when it tries to boot then they stop spinning after a period of time.)
Once the red light turns off next to the graphics card, another one comes on next to the BOOT_DEVICE_LED, however this also turns off after around 15 seconds.
I have read that red lights turning on and then going off after some time indicates that things are working okay but I am not sure on this.
I am going to try taking the graphics card out and booting from the motherboard which hopefully will let me install Windows then I will be able to plug the graphics card back in.
Any other help/advice would be greatly appreciated since this is my first build so I don't know all of the tips and tricks yet.
Thanks.