No picture on Monitor after enabling gaming mode on EZ Tuning Wizard in Asus BIOS

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TomRuss92

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Hi There,

Looking for advice as I am slightly worried I may have irreversibly screwed something with my GPU or CPU potentially due to my own naivety / incompetence.

My pc has been running pretty slow over the last 1 to 2 years especially when booting up. I ran Userbenchmark which indicated that everything was working optimally apart from my 1tb ssd which my windows OS is saved onto which was showing sub-optimal performance. Therefore I had bought a new SSD with the plan of moving the OS onto with the hope that this would speed things up.

However, I had the thought that PC speeds could improve if I upgraded to Windows 11. When checking to see if my I could upgrade the page said I couldnt until TPM was enabled. So I went into my bios to enable this and done so with no problem. However, when I was still in the bios I noticed an option called EZ Tuning Wizard which I clicked on and it showed me that it was set to Daily Computing whilst there was also an option to optimize for gaming (which I use my PC 99% of the time for). I enabled this option which then prompted me to select how my pc is cooled to which I selected liquid cooling. Once chosen I clicked next then yes which I believed started OC Tuning.

My monitor then went blank and after maybe 5 minutes my motherboard beeped one long beep followed by 3 smaller ones and a white light is showing. According to https://softwarekeep.com/blog/what-are-asus-beep-codes-and-how-to-identify-them this is likely an extended memory failure.

The CPU and GPU's respective RGB are all on and the GPUs fans are all working still, there is just no picture on my monitor.

I have turned my computer off both from the desktop and at the wall and still no picture is showing.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!!



PC Specs are as follows:

Case
COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX K500 ARGB GAMING CASE
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Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Eight Core CPU (3.9GHz-4.5GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 240 Series RGB High Performance Liquid Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Insurance
Simplesurance Purchase Protection inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI (BEFORE 2PM)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book - United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
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TonyCarter

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...and to address your 'slow' issues...in what way is it 'slow'? FPS going lower, apps taking longer to launch?

How full is the 1TB SSD (they start to slow down as they more than 50% full), and is the new one a faster(er) m.2 NVMe drive or the same old slow SATA SSD type?
 
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TomRuss92

Member
I have tried using both HDMI and DP cables plugged into different ports including the motherboards' (just on the off chance I can at least access the bios) but to no success.
 
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TomRuss92

Member
TonyCarter said:
...and to address your 'slow' issues...in what way is it 'slow'? FPS going lower, apps taking longer to launch?

How full is the 1TB SSD (they start to slow down as they more than 50% full), and is the new one a faster(er) m.2 NVMe drive or the same old slow SATA SSD type?
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The 1TB SSD I had is over 50% full. I bought a 2 TB 5150Mb/s M.2 SSD.
 
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TonyCarter

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Motherboard ports won't work anyway as there's no iGPU in that processor.

You could try to remove and reseat the GPU to see if that helps, but the the EZ-Tuner is a type of built-in 'overclocker' and should reset itself if the overclock fails. However, if it's starting up (with no display output) then the EZ-Tuner may be taking that as a 'pass' and not resetting.
 
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TomRuss92

Member
TonyCarter said:
That will be a very nice boost to booting/launching...once the PC is up & running again of course.
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Very good to know! Do you think it is worth moving the OS across to it or just moving many of the larger files over to the new SSD to free up the original 1TB SSD?
 
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TomRuss92

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TonyCarter said:
Motherboard ports won't work anyway as there's no iGPU in that processor.

You could try to remove and reseat the GPU to see if that helps, but the the EZ-Tuner is a type of built-in 'overclocker' and should reset itself if the overclock fails. However, if it's starting up (with no display output) then the EZ-Tuner may be taking that as a 'pass' and not resetting.
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I will try reseating the GPU and will get back to you. In the event this does not work, what are my options?
 
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TonyCarter

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TomRuss92 said:
Very good to know! Do you think it is worth moving the OS across to it or just moving many of the larger files over to the new SSD to free up the original 1TB SSD?
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You really want the OS/Apps on the fastest drive, and the docs/files/movies on the slower SATA SSDs as access times to those won't see much improvement...and a clean install of Windows will probably be the best option.

Normally we'd recommend a much smaller, but very fast m.2 SSD just for the OS/Apps (500GB to 1TB), as you want to get into the habit of keeping everything else on secondary/tertiary drives, so that you don't lose anything (or too much of anything) important if the main drive fails.

You'd then have larger/slower SSDs/HDDs for longer-term storage, and where speed isn't as important - e.g. a 4k movie will play fine from an old HDD, whereas gaming textures or photo-processing caches want a faster SSD so that it loads as fast as possible.
 
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