Asus Q-LED: green and white are on even without boot media or video card installed

When I start the pc, I see the red led (cpu) on for a short period, after the yellow one (dram) goes on for a short period, after the white light (vga) keeps on and after the green light (boot) keeps on. Than nothing happens any more, white and green led keep on.

  • I also connected a buzzer (pc speaker): no beeps at all.

  • When connecting a monitor trough DisplayPort -> black screen (I guess connection but no signal).

What I tried to analyse the problem:

  • I disconnect the GeForce (pci-e) -> same problem

  • I disconnect the M.2 disk -> same problem

  • Tested the CPU in another pc -> works perfectly

  • Tried to update the BIOS with the Asus Flashback function to the latest version, after I initialise the update, the status light keeps on and nothing happens.

What can I do to analyse and solve this problem?


  • mobo: Asus ROG Z490-G

  • cpu: Intel i7 10700

  • dram: Kingston 32GB HyperX fury DDR4 CL16

  • stor: Kingston A2000 SSD 1TB

  • gpu: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti D5 4G

1 Answer

Believe it or not, but the problem was the connection from the monitor to the motherboard. It was connected with a DisplayPort cable which for some reason did not work. When i found a HDMI cable, the problem was solved. To the white led is on also when there is no connection! I thought it was an on board gpu error.

So hdmi saved me!

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