See 2080 3 Red LEDs in the threads here and here..You can always Contact EVGA Customer Service and find out..There could be different causes, I guess.

kelkel1
OK, thanks, but those threads really provide no concrete answers.
 
I thought about the possibility of PSU issue, but why does it happen most noticeably when restarting after switching BIOS or BIOS profile, but only very occasionally? If it were a PSU issue, it should happen more often, I would believe.

You mean why does something happen intermittently when you do something intermittently? Why would you believe a PSU would cause it to happen more often? If the PSU is mariginal in supplying some voltage, sometimes you boot, sometimes ya don't. Maybe a hair dryer in another room has lowered the supply voltage to the outlet a fraction. My voltage coming to my mains varies during the day from 117 to 121v.  Back to troubleshooting. Do you have another system or a PSU you could use for testing? The PSU does not need to be able to handle the full system load, it just needs to be able to reliably power the system to boot. Have you reseated both the GPU and all power connectors to the board, PSU and peripheral devices?

HeavyHemi

kelkel1
OK, thanks, but those threads really provide no concrete answers.
 
I thought about the possibility of PSU issue, but why does it happen most noticeably when restarting after switching BIOS or BIOS profile, but only very occasionally? If it were a PSU issue, it should happen more often, I would believe.

You mean why does something happen intermittently when you do something intermittently? Why would you believe a PSU would cause it to happen more often? If the PSU is mariginal in supplying some voltage, sometimes you boot, sometimes ya don't. Maybe a hair dryer in another room has lowered the supply voltage to the outlet a fraction. My voltage coming to my mains varies during the day from 117 to 121v.  Back to troubleshooting. Do you have another system or a PSU you could use for testing? The PSU does not need to be able to handle the full system load, it just needs to be able to reliably power the system to boot. Have you reseated both the GPU and all power connectors to the board, PSU and peripheral devices?

Never said it was the PSU, only that since it appeared to possibly be a power issue, that perhaps it might be a possibility.
 
I ran a dedicated 20A circuit to my rig (PC, monitor, printer) and I have an APC UPS with AVR that maintains a consistent voltage, other than that, nothing else on the circuit.
 
I can try re-seating. The thing is, I have not seen an actual pattern to when the red LEDs appear, only that I noticed that it seems to happen during restart when switching BIOS profiles, and even then, maybe once in fifty(?) restarts.
 
I have three other PSUs, two are installed in other PCs, that I could try, but that is more trouble than I want to go thru at the moment. Perhaps if I see other indications of PSU trouble in the future...
 
So, other than power or loose connection issues, what else might cause the red LEDs? Not a marginal video card? Not a motherboard problem?

Read this thread... https://forums.evga.com/L...tra-bios-m3000849.aspx

Sajin
Read this thread... https://forums.evga.com/L...tra-bios-m3000849.aspx

In that thread you stated "When ErP is enabled it prevents certain things like keyboards, mice, usb ports, etc from being activated when the pc is turned off in order to save energy when your PC is off."
 
To my knowledge, those items never activate while the PC is off anyway, but if you could suggest a method to test it, I would be willing to try it.
 
Even so, in what way would that resolve the red LEDs?

kelkel1

Sajin
Read this thread... https://forums.evga.com/L...tra-bios-m3000849.aspx

In that thread you stated "When ErP is enabled it prevents certain things like keyboards, mice, usb ports, etc from being activated when the pc is turned off in order to save energy when your PC is off."
 
To my knowledge, those items never activate while the PC is off anyway, but if you could suggest a method to test it, I would be willing to try it.
 
Even so, in what way would that resolve the red LEDs?

When erp is enabled it keeps a very low amount of power to certain components instead of letting them totally drain, in some cases that low amount of power makes a difference in boot up with certain devices.

kelkel1

sparetimepc

kelkel1

Sajin
Read this thread... https://forums.evga.com/L...tra-bios-m3000849.aspx

In that thread you stated "When ErP is enabled it prevents certain things like keyboards, mice, usb ports, etc from being activated when the pc is turned off in order to save energy when your PC is off."
 
To my knowledge, those items never activate while the PC is off anyway, but if you could suggest a method to test it, I would be willing to try it.
 
Even so, in what way would that resolve the red LEDs?

When erp is enabled it keeps a very low amount of power to certain components instead of letting them totally drain, in some cases that low amount of power makes a difference in boot up with certain devices.

I see, and that happens when switching BIOS profiles?

If you have different bios profiles in your motherboard it would need to be enabled or disabled in each profile however you want it to be set. Not saying thats going to fix your issue but in some cases it has. Only you will know if and when you try it if that helps or not. So many different components out there what works for one system might not work for the next.

This LED thing happens to me every time I loose power (no UPS) or if I power off the power supply it's self.
From a complete power off the red LED's come on and it take a couple of reboots before they go off. If I just power off the PC there is still some power left on, MB LED's and the USB's still power my phone and keep it charged and next power on the red LED's are off.
Go Figure...
 
Disregard the computer spec's that was my old one I am now on a Z390 I9 9900 32 gig mem, RTX 2080 watercooled GPU and CPU.

Just had it happen again. Three red LEDs on GPU, black screen on monitor.
 
I changed from an overclocked profile to Optimized Defaults in BIOS.
 
PC was never shut down.
 

Started PC this morning, it had been off for about 12 or 13 hours.
 
Then did a quick shut down, and power back on. PC was off for perhaps 5 seconds.
 
Got three red LEDs.
 
Pressed the chassis power switch to shut PC down again, and immediately powered back on. No red LEDs.
 
What is going on here?