Hi, wondering if anyone can help me. I recently bought a used gaming pc and I am having great trouble getting it to boot. About a month ago now, I went into my BIOS and enabled Secure Boot, nothing else, just clicked to enable secure boot. U didn’t mess with platform keys or anything, just clicked the tick box for secure boot. I saved the settings and the PC did not reboot as expected. It started to beep. 2 beeps for about 1.5 seconds, about a 2 second pause, and then weirdly, the system automatically turns off.
There is no display on my monitor, and as far as I am aware, the graphics card power and HDMI were plugged in properly. I tried removing the CMOS battery for one hour, and nothing changed. There was someone in my local area who does IT support, and I had him try to help me. He tried reseating the graphics card, and RAM, but nothing happened. He said maybe the CMOS battery was dead, so I even resorted to Amazon and tried replacing the CMOS battery, but still nothing changed.
I was informed by another Tom’s Hardware user that the beeps meant that there was a graphics card issue, about it not being compatible with UEFI. They suggested that I plugged my monitor into my onboard graphics port instead of my GPU. I have ordered a DisplayPort to HDMI converter for this to work.
(Also this may be unrelated, but I did update my NVIDIA Graphics Driver on the day of the issue, not sure whether this played a part in my GPU issues, or whether it is just a BIOS thing)
Anyway, now the PC is still in a completely unbootable state. No POST, just beeps twice, pauses, and then turns off automatically. Any help is much appreciated.
My Specs:
Motherboard: Intel DQ77MK
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333MHz (manufacturer unknown)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770S 3.10GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB VRAM)
Storage Devices: Samsung SSD SM841 mSATA 128GB (Boot Drive, formatted NTFS)
Internal 1TB HDD (Manufacturer unknown)
2TB WD Elements 2621 External HDD
OS: Windows 10 Home
There is no display on my monitor, and as far as I am aware, the graphics card power and HDMI were plugged in properly. I tried removing the CMOS battery for one hour, and nothing changed. There was someone in my local area who does IT support, and I had him try to help me. He tried reseating the graphics card, and RAM, but nothing happened. He said maybe the CMOS battery was dead, so I even resorted to Amazon and tried replacing the CMOS battery, but still nothing changed.
I was informed by another Tom’s Hardware user that the beeps meant that there was a graphics card issue, about it not being compatible with UEFI. They suggested that I plugged my monitor into my onboard graphics port instead of my GPU. I have ordered a DisplayPort to HDMI converter for this to work.
(Also this may be unrelated, but I did update my NVIDIA Graphics Driver on the day of the issue, not sure whether this played a part in my GPU issues, or whether it is just a BIOS thing)
Anyway, now the PC is still in a completely unbootable state. No POST, just beeps twice, pauses, and then turns off automatically. Any help is much appreciated.
My Specs:
Motherboard: Intel DQ77MK
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333MHz (manufacturer unknown)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770S 3.10GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB VRAM)
Storage Devices: Samsung SSD SM841 mSATA 128GB (Boot Drive, formatted NTFS)
Internal 1TB HDD (Manufacturer unknown)
2TB WD Elements 2621 External HDD
OS: Windows 10 Home