pHat Beat, one LED always on full bright white when powered up

Is that using the same SD card?

The LEDs on pHAT BEAT are “smart”- IE they expect a data/clock line to send them some kind of logical signal, but sometimes random noise (from your hands, the environment, your Pi, anything really) will get interpreted as a signal and cause an LED to light up.

It could also be something running on the Pi, if you changed the SD card.