Five beeps on startup

[antonysummers123]

I wasn't sure where to put this cause I'm not sure what is actually wrong with my PC. But basically my PC has five short beeps on start-up and I'm not sure why. It will still start-up fine well theres a slight delay but it will still tend to start-up just fine. The beeping did stop for a short while it was when I took my xbox 360 controller out of my PC but it has now started again, I was thinking it was the fan and something to do with the heat sink cause it has been slighty louder but I have cleaned out my PC since.

Specs: Intel i5-8600k, 16gb Ram and GTX1070ti

 

[SgtScream]

Look up the beep code in your motherboard's manual.

 

[antonysummers123]

Look up the beep code in your motherboard's manual.

Okay I just did and it was Real Time Clock malfunction, thank you. I'm still uncertain how to fix that though

 

[Snipergod87]

Possibly the CR2032 battery is dead on the motherboard (about the size of a quarter) Possible you got a bad battery to begin with these generally last years and years. It is easy to swap out with another.

 

[antonysummers123]

Possibly the CR2032 battery is dead on the motherboard (about the size of a quarter) Possible you got a bad battery to begin with these generally last years and years. It is easy to swap out with another.

I'm going to take it to a local store to see what is wrong with it, I cant even get onto the BIOS at the start to fix the "Real Time Clock Error" if that is the problem. It just sends me straight to the log-on screen. Its also a new PC (six months old) from PC specialist so idk maybe its a faulty battery but it did stop for like a week and then it just started doing it again.

 

[WildCard999]

Replacing that battery is easy and is literally like a dollar, the local pc store may charge you quite a bit to look at it, would definitely try this first before bringing it there.

 

[SgtScream]

Yeah just get a CR2032 battery at home depot or Walmart.

 

[antonysummers123]

Replacing that battery is easy and is literally like a dollar, the local pc store may charge you quite a bit to look at it, would definitely try this first before bringing it there.

Nah they look free of charge

 

[antonysummers123]

But can the battery link with the fan being really loud and the gpu getting really hot as well when gaming (It didn't used to) I have also cleaned it out as well so I know its not from the dust or whatever.

 

[Snipergod87]

No battery only keeps the boards onbaord memory powered to keep the clock along with any configured BIOS settings.

 

[antonysummers123]

No battery only keeps the boards onbaord memory powered to keep the clock along with any configured BIOS settings.

Thats what it says on the motherboards website about the battery, on other sites it says it be the heat sink with the fan which I think it might be.