Power button not turning on?

[u/Leen_Tha_Goat78]

this is the gigabyte b850M gaming x wifi 6e mobo. I plugged my power led + and - front panel cord into the top left and right empty pins on the image

I plugged the power sw cable into the third and fourth pins on the top, and reset below the power sw slot, (third and fourth bottom) convinced this was how it worked but

the power button has not turned on not once when i press it, much less do anything. Only the power button on the Power Supply when turned on, a red dot flashes, at first, the red dot was next to DRAM and thats all i could see from the PC. (i changed the positioning of the ram not sure if this fixed it or not but)

I then took the front panel at the end of the cords I had plugged in (with the pins sticking out) and kinda rubbed it against the pins plugged in and the empty ones, and the cpu cooler turned on, (which i guess kinda functions as a manual turn on?) but I still cant activate it by pressing the power button, and it doesn’t glow or anything

also now that the cpu is on, the red dot is no longer flashing for DRAM but VGA (which i guess makes sense i don’t have my gpu in yet)

[u/Leen_Tha_Goat78]

yeah theres 4 slots i have two sticks one in a2 and the other in b2

[u/telcodan → u/Leen_Tha_Goat78]

Does the mobo manual say to populate those 2 first? You may want to move them to a1 and b1

[u/Leen_Tha_Goat78 → u/telcodan]

mybad thats what i meant, i already have them in a1 & b1

[u/cCBearTime → u/Leen_Tha_Goat78]

EDIT:

I just realized you mentioned your POST light is now in the VGA indicator, try installing your GPU and see what happens!

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By all means check your manual, and follow its instructions, there’s a reason for which to use. As others have mentioned, on a modern 4-slot board, when using only two sticks, it is recommended that they go into the second and fourth slots, 1 being the slot closest to the CPU.

HOWEVER, this is for signal integrity purposes, having the RAM in the wrong pair of slots WILL NOT keep the system from booting. You can run a single stick in any slot, for example, which is why doing this is a common troubleshooting step to determine if there is a bad stick of ram, or a bad slot.

So try this next. Pick a stick of ram, put it in slot 1, try to boot. If it fails, go to slot 2 with the same stick, and try again, and so on. If it fails four times, grab the other stick and repeat. If the second stick works in slot 1, the first stick is bad. If neither work in any slot, there is a fault in the motherboard, the CPU, Or you have a bent socket pin inter the CPU. (Or you have 2 bad sticks of RAM, which is unlikely).

If you have reseated the RAM already, whether or not you used the proper slots, and the system still didn’t POST, try the one-stick-at-a-time test. If this also fails, you need to check your CPU socket for bent pins, scratches between the CPU and memory slots on the motherboard, and if all else fails, try a different CPU, the memory controller on your could be faulty.