I am hoping someone has experienced this weird issue or similar as we can't even find the cause. For a few months now whenever I needed to restart my gaming PC from a software update, and it didn't matter if it was wWindows or gaming app/ software. It would start the normal reboot phase and get stuck with the amber light on my motherboard and no image on monitor. I would then hold my case power button to turn off PC, and then click it to turn back on and would turn on with no issue and completed the updated. Sometimes it would come and go. I took it to Micro Center and we tried to diagnose it but wouldn't show anything. So it was something I would have to deal with sometimes on reboots. I've had a few GPU's lately to try and currently have a Gigabyte Aero 4080 Super. I never suspected the GPU being the issue cause it happened with 2 other GPU''s that were used briefly, one being AMD. However, over the last month since I've had this GPU I enable EXPO and I do not do any manually overclocking but let the new Nvidia app do the automatic tuning which is really cool, so I don't use GeFoce Experience anymore or Control Panel much since they are combining into this new application I believe? Anyway, same issue persists however, now I can't really get it to turn back on. When it would sit on the amber light I would turn it off and on and usually work. Now on reboots or if I'm turning it on it will sit on the green boot light I think it says? When it has happened the only way I can get it to work is keep trying off and on and hope, maybe reflash bios, but mainly I have to remove CMOS battery. It's the strangest thing and it really only seems to be when overclocking is happening I think. It hasn't happened for about a week but noticed the Nvidia automatic tuning was on 0, last night it rescanned and went to +165 and VRAM +150. And I am pretty confident these are very little when it comes to overclocking since its just their automatic tuning. Everything runs great and no crashes or anything of that nature, but had this issue even just with EXPO enabled. And yes, I have tried everything in the book. Micro Center look at it, reinstall windows, DDU and all new drivers, update BIOS, you name it and I've tried it. Like I mentioned it's not my new GPU cause it did it with the past ones but I just notice it has gotten worse and wont turn on. Sounds silly, but can an AIO affect this at all? I have the Lian Li square screen and hate this thing. It's so buggy and if my monitor flickers the AIO screen flickers or cuts out which is the strangets thing and the image wouldn't appear right on the AIO. But all my temps are good and everything runs smooth but if the Nvidia auto overclock adds a boost and EXPO 6000 enabled shouldn't affect the POST cycle should it? I've attached a few pics of mainly the amber color when I would have to restart my PC from an update turning my PC off to back on; to know how it will sit at this green light. Sometimes I get lucky or sometimes I have reset battery. very very frustrating. No idea what it could be. I have heard someones MB wouldn't POST because their MB thought their mouse usb plug in was a boot drive? If anyone has experience or the cause of this would be awesome as I can't get any help on it. If it helps to knpw specs: CPU: 7800x3D RAM: DDR5 t force 6000. SeaSonic 1000 W gold PS. Samsung 2TB 990 pro SSD (what my windows is on currently, and yes i've even used another SSD). If it matters monitor is a Samsung G8 4k 32" 240Hz, I only use display port.
