Starting up computer help

[Bryan308]

When I get home from school and I turn on my computer It only starts up into the start up where it asks to click f2 to boot menu and all that but it won't let me click on anything. Then it goes black and I have to keep restarting it until I hear 5 short beeps from my motherboard then everything starts to work again. Plus just today when I turned it on it was just a black screen I had push all the power connectors back in then it showed the boot start up and then after another restart I got the same 5 short beeps

Specs: mother board-asrock (b85m-dgs) psu-corsair cx 750m CPU-Intel core i5-4590 3.30 ghz gpu-gigabyte Radeon r9 270 ram-ballistix(by crucial) 8gb single

If you need any more info just ask thank you.

 

[Thineswar]

it may be a virus-did you try to boot into safe mode?
i cannot find it in the manual, but maybe you could. try finding out what the 5 beeps mean.
Also, go through this guide:

 

[Bryan308]

it may be a virus-did you try to boot into safe mode?
i cannot find it in the manual, but maybe you could. try finding out what the 5 beeps mean.
Also, go through this guide:

I don't think it's a virus because after I get it going it doesn't do it anymore until like a day or 2 also where do you think i can find the 5 beeps?

 

[Thineswar]

regardless, i recommend you to do it anyway.
also, try updating your drivers, from your cpu, windows and gpu

 

[Bryan308]

regardless, i recommend you to do it anyway.
also, try updating your drivers, from your cpu, windows and gpu

Sorry I had to go to bed had school today and work but I tried in safe boot nothing out of the ordinary and everything was already updated but I found something out If I spam f2 before it starts up it starts to work could it be the hard drive?

 

[Colif]

The Asrock motherboard uses AMI UEFI bios, according to http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm 5 short beeps corresponds to process failure. Not sure what that means myself but its a start

Would I be right in guessing you aren't even getting into windows? It would be hard to update any drivers in that case.

 

[Bryan308]

The Asrock motherboard uses AMI UEFI bios, according to http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm 5 short beeps corresponds to process failure. Not sure what that means myself but its a start

Would I be right in guessing you aren't even getting into windows? It would be hard to update any drivers in that case.

No after I hear the 5 beeps everything starts working but before that I can't click on anything doesn't go past the boot screen

 

[Bryan308]

The Asrock motherboard uses AMI UEFI bios, according to http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm 5 short beeps corresponds to process failure. Not sure what that means myself but its a start

Would I be right in guessing you aren't even getting into windows? It would be hard to update any drivers in that case.

No after I hear the 5 beeps everything starts working but before that I can't click on anything doesn't go past the boot screen

 

[Thineswar]

so, for some reason, when you do hear the 5 beeps, your pc boots normally.
anyway, in the website that colif linked, it details a series of steps that you could perform to troubleshoot this issue.
but of course, don't try to listen to the beeps, but rather try to see if you could boot normally by removing everything that is non-essential.
if all else fails, you could always do a clean install of windows.

 

[Bryan308]

so, for some reason, when you do hear the 5 beeps, your pc boots normally.
anyway, in the website that colif linked, it details a series of steps that you could perform to troubleshoot this issue.
but of course, don't try to listen to the beeps, but rather try to see if you could boot normally by removing everything that is non-essential.
if all else fails, you could always do a clean install of windows.

What do you mean by non essentials

 

[Bryan308]

so, for some reason, when you do hear the 5 beeps, your pc boots normally.
anyway, in the website that colif linked, it details a series of steps that you could perform to troubleshoot this issue.
but of course, don't try to listen to the beeps, but rather try to see if you could boot normally by removing everything that is non-essential.
if all else fails, you could always do a clean install of windows.

What do you mean by non essentials

 

[Thineswar]

keyboard, mouse, ethernet, maybe even gpu,
boot with only 1 stick of ram
also remove your hdd, here your pc will post, but of course cannot boot
try doing this one at a time and see if maybe one of them are causing the problem.

 

[Bryan308]

keyboard, mouse, ethernet, maybe even gpu,
boot with only 1 stick of ram
also remove your hdd, here your pc will post, but of course cannot boot
try doing this one at a time and see if maybe one of them are causing the problem.

Once I do it how will I know if it's the problem?

 

[Thineswar]

if the problem disappears when you boot with something unplugged, then it is that something that is causing the problem.

 

[Bryan308]

keyboard, mouse, ethernet, maybe even gpu,
boot with only 1 stick of ram
also remove your hdd, here your pc will post, but of course cannot boot
try doing this one at a time and see if maybe one of them are causing the problem.

Yeah it's my ram. Thanks!!! I'll get a new one asap