4 Beeps POST

[jonanien]

Hi,

I am rebuilding my pc in which I've only replaced my HDD with a new empty one.
Now my computer won't boot anymore, it worked before I swapped out my HDD.

I've been browsing this forum for a while looking for a solution to my issue but I just got extra confused.
Whenever I boot my pc I have a black screen and my MB-speaker makes 4 short beeps after which it restarts the PC, this process keeps going.
This page says the following about the beep code: "Real Time Clock malfunction".

Things I've tried:

• 
  Replacing the CMOS-Battery
  Reseating RAM
  Changing RAM to 2nd slot and back

My specs:

• 
  Motherboard: ASRock H61M-DGS (link)
  Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K (link)
  RAM: 1 stick of Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB DDR3 DIMM 1866 MHz
  GPU: Club 3D Radeon R7 265
  PSU: Sharkoon WPM500 Bronze 500W ATX
  HDD: WD Blue WD10EZEX 1 TB

 

[jay32267]

Have you tried the old HDD again?

It may be something with the new HDD.

 

[jonanien]

Have you tried the old HDD again?

It may be something with the new HDD.

Even without HDD the same error persists.

 

[jonanien]

After some more digging I've found that 1 of my motherboard's CPU socket pins was bend.