PC always boots into bios, now won't load up windows

RedDevil74

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May 7, 2017
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I recently built a pc and installed Windows on it. one of the ram sticks was faulty so I had to wait to get it replaced. Now that I've got everything back together, it seemed to be working fine.
At the start it wouldn't recognize my HDD. I enabled fast boot and suddenly it recognized it. It worked for a day when suddenly today it randomly booted into the bios. I had earlier broken one of the SATA ports, but got it fixed through my warranty. Now my pc just doesn't seem to detect my HDD and shows a blank screen after the bios part. (While getting my motherboard fixed, some of the thermal paste came off and now my cousin's hovers at around 45-50°c at idle. I have loaded optimized defaults, removed and put the CMOS battery back in, removed all SATA connections except my hard drive and I'm still getting a black screen. Whenever I try to boot, my mother board gives out 4 beeps and then 1 beep (all short) and I checked Gigabytes website which said it was a real time clock malfunction, and that's why I removed and put the CMOS battery back in. It is a very new mobo too.
 
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Are you getting any BIOS alerts regarding the time?
Perhaps the CMOS battery died? You could try a new one.

In any case you'll have to call Gigabyte back and let them know about the beep code. The motherboard has issues. (It's probably not the one you sent them.) Typically companies will ship out a product that is the same type that they repaired already. Then they work on yours and the next guy to report an issue will get the board you had. This is very common in manufacturing. Often you'll get A refurbished one but not necessarily YOUR refurbished motherboard. So this new one could have a different issue if they didn't repair it correctly or only part of the issue was fixed.
Are you getting any BIOS alerts regarding the time?
Perhaps the CMOS battery died? You could try a new one.

In any case you'll have to call Gigabyte back and let them know about the beep code. The motherboard has issues. (It's probably not the one you sent them.) Typically companies will ship out a product that is the same type that they repaired already. Then they work on yours and the next guy to report an issue will get the board you had. This is very common in manufacturing. Often you'll get A refurbished one but not necessarily YOUR refurbished motherboard. So this new one could have a different issue if they didn't repair it correctly or only part of the issue was fixed.
 
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