b360-i gaming works great..annoying white led!

[JeffMD]

So I built my dream computer a couple of months ago using this mobo and everything has been working great, but because my case has a side glass panel for the lightshow I also see one of its few glaring flaws. It seems that when ever the motherboard boots up using the integrated gpu the status light remains white.. and not just white but brighter-than-the-sun white. The thing is, I have a 1080gtx.

It seems to only happen if I do a restart without powering down, or I turn my pc on before I turn on the stereo receiver it passes through on. I have tried toggling everything in and out of the bios to tell the pc to ignore the igpu and always use the pci-e vga device but it doesn't listen. Anyone have a solution before I break out the electrical tape?

[JustinThyme]

Is this light on the GPU? Like near the power connector? If so this is actually normal and should be there when 5V standby is available. I’m surprised if it goes out. If this isn’t it and you have narrowed it down to a restart will make it go out then disable fast start up.*

You have my interest on what it is. I have annoying red ones on my DIMM.2 that aggravate me. Found that the tits on a LEGO cut off with a dremmel and a *dab of silicone covers those puppies up and no more red. Board has lots of others but I don’t like seeing a red Led as that makes me think something is wrong. **

[JeffMD]

This is the status light in the upper corner of the mobo near the ram. It changes colors depending on the current POST code. White means the iGPU is in use (or no pci graphics found). Likewise when this happens, I do not see the ROG boot logo on the screen but as soon as windows starts, windows is on my screen, but the white led never goes out.

I like your lego tits method, I would hate to use a marker for fear of shorting traces, and black tape never stays on.