So, I turn on my computer, it powers on, light comes on.Screens still off. Nothing happens for about 10 seconds, maybe 15, then it beeps and turns on normally alongside the screens. Only started happening the other day, what could be causing this? I reset my computer yesterday, but this was happening before that.
You need to provide more info about your system. What is your computer? A PC or Laptop? If PC, we need your motherboard model. Also how many beeps? Is it long beeps or short? These beeps are error codes which can be communicated without having a screen. What do you mean by reset? You reset the BIOS or you mean reloaded Windows on the machine? It sounds like motherboard or maybe harddisk fault but this is a wild guess.
Got the PC in July of 2014 By Reset I mean I wiped all the drives clean aside from windows using the windows factory reset option (Reset this PC). Is it possible that a USB device could be causing this, as I get the error that my webcam (which I use as a mic) has malfunctioned when I turn it on, and I unplugged it, switched it back on and it turned on fine? If it is that, which it seems it is, why does it cause this? It's a single beep, im uploading it turning on to youtube. Case COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache Motherboard Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 3: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, XFIRE/SLI Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 770 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready 1st Hard Disk 240GB INTEL® 530 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 490MB/sW) 2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm) 1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM Power Supply CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Processor Cooling Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
One beep usually means video card failure. Try removing it and cleaning it and just incase clean everything around it.
Yes, you will have to make sure its your webcam that is causing this. Also I noticed in the video Windows repairing drive E:. What is that? Maybe your motherboard is looking for boot on this drive and because its corrupt it takes a long time? Btw, do you see the Gigabyte logo when you turn on your PC before it takes a minute to start? For this particular motherboard, it means POST was successful. From the manual: "One single short beep will be heard if no problem is detected at system startup."
If you have just reset the PC using the windows tool then it may have done separate updates in the background and then not updated the other drivers on the machine. Might be worth updating drivers or at least make sure you have the latest driver for your graphics card to rule out this possibility (as the 1 minute delay is peculiar). Also since you have reset your PC, has your main Windows folders changed location as in, to the secondary HDD? As this may be confusing the startup as it will search the previous HDD for Windows first and then move on to the second. Check which drive it is in then I would go into your BIOS settings and ensure that this is the primary boot drive.
I think it was the webcam, I removed the webcam and it's booted up fine each time... haha In terms of the repairing E drive, it's been doing that ever since I got the PC doesn't really have anything there...
Might be worth going into the BIOS and setting the drive that contains your Windows folders, as your primary boot drive. May prevent the issue from occurring again if you want to leave the Webcam in.
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