Question Bios 5 beeps but PC works

[rounakr94]

Hi,
I was cleaning my PC and I forgot to plug in the Display port cable to my GPU.
When I turned on PC it gave 5 beeps followed by a small post successful beep. I then hurriedly plugged in the DP cable and I was greeted with the Windows login screen.

So why the 5beeps, GPU was already plugged into motherboard and power cable was connected only I missed out on the DP cable. Can the bios detect if gpu has something plugged in the I/O ports or not and maybe warned me that connect the cable?


My GPU is a msi 6600xt and cpu is r5 3600.

 

[rgd1101]

you don't have igpu

 

[rounakr94]

So why the 5beeps, GPU was already plugged into motherboard and power cable was connected only I missed out on the DP cable. Can the bios detect if gpu has something plugged in the I/O ports or not and maybe warned me that connect the cable?

you don't have igpu

Hi please read what I quoted.
The gpu is connected and power plugged in only display port cable was not connected.

 

[rgd1101]

computer is smart enough to know if you have video cable plug in to the motherboard and not the gpu

 

[rounakr94]

computer is smart enough to know if you have video cable plug in to the motherboard and not the gpu

NVM, found it in the Asrock forums that its normal for Asrock bios to beep 5 times as a warning when GPU doesn't have anything connected in its I/O. This holds true as system boots up normally with bios post beep after the initial 5 beeps.

 

[rgd1101]

Yup. computer is smarter than people