Question X670E Steel Legend 5 beep error

[neldead]

Hello. I assembled a PC and hit the power switch. After a few seconds, I get 5 beeps. When I look at the Post Status Checker, the VGA indicator and Boot indicator are red (obviously there is no OS on the drive yet). I pulled the video card and used only the video from the cpu, same issue. I removed the cpu, reseated, started up, same errors. I put in a different video card, same problem.

5 beeps, VGA lit up RED.

Any thoughts? I was thinking perhaps using the USB bios flashback feature to flash to the latest bios to see if this would fix the issue.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

 

[neldead]

Follow up. I was using a DP cable to the monitor when I was getting the errors.....I switched to an HDMI cable and it booted into the bios! What the hell? Tried a different DP cable, same problem, Post Status Checker, the VGA indicator and Boot indicator are red. Pulled the cable, put back the HDMI and that worked again. My video card has 2 DP ports and 1 HDMI. I need to run three monitors and have to have access to the two DP ports. But everytime I use a DP connection - including the built in DP port on the motherboard, I get the errors as mentioned. HDMI into the motherboard connection, works. Put my dedicated video card back in, HDMI works, DP won't. Anyone know whats going on?

UPDATE - Another follow up. Tried a THIRD DP cable - that worked. Could it be that some DP cables have voltage/power running through them and some don't? All three DP cables were from different manufacturers from what I can tell. Two of the DP cables were black, one was white - that one worked.

 

[paisa]

Hello. Did you find anything out? This started happening to me a couple days ago on a new build. Had been working fine since I put everything together a couple weeks ago, but now I get 5 beeps on cold a boot sometimes. When I get the beeps, it seems to take a couple seconds longer to boot up, but everything seems to work fine afterwards. I've stressed the GPU and it works as intended as well.

I wonder if it can be some driver that was installed incorrectly? I remember cancelling an AMD auto updater command line installation that started automatically while I was playing Cyberpunk and seemed to take forever to complete, and think it started happening just after that.

Ryzen 7 7700x, RTX 3080ti. Windows 11.

EDIT: looking around for answers it seems for AsRock motherboards 5 beeps means a processor error, but seeing that everything works fine I doubt it's that. Some people seem to have fixed it by reseting CMOS, replacing CMOS battery or changing the power outlet the PC is connected to. Weird.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This can be incompatible DP cables. My brother tried 3 before he found one that worked. Strange issue. I don't think it's always the solution , but for him it worked.