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I've been trying to boot a HP elitedesk 800 g1 ssf that I bought used. I made sure the seller could boot a USB as he sold it to me without any type of storage. Here's my problem. I can't get any monitor to display an image. At first I was getting a boot loop with a single beep every loop. Then I switched out the AC wall cord and then the machine started to beep five times completely power on, fans full blast and stay that way (until I unplugged it of course). HP help website says that's good (I forget what exactly but it resets something allowing for a "healthy" boot). That bit is probably explained by the USB bootloader, and keyboard being taken out of the equation. I honestly don't know what to do next. I've cleared CMOS several times and the only thing left is to try a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (PC to screen source) instead of VGA but I feel that'll be the least likely "fix" being a digital signal that has to be converted twice for the two monitors that will except HDMI. I've tried three monitors and two VGA cables in various combinations up to this point. I suppose I'll also try some more Googling but between my knowledge of 20+ years and HP's own website I'm a little miffted and frankly tired. So here's to hoping someone knows some tips or tricks I may not know or could be overlooking which I can take to the bank (AKA thanks in advance). Finally allowing me to play my steam catalog at acceptable frame rates.?

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What are you using for operating system? can you get to the BIOS?

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i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

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I was trying to boot to USB. I wanted to do that before installing internal storage (which I tried once in frustration). So that I could boot to BIOS and see installed ram (I have new sticks but was basically system probing). So no I haven't even made it to BIOS screen. Just black on three different monitors.

 

PS Thanks for looking out!

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Just on board graphics?

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Ryzen 5 5600, GIGABYTE B550M DS3H, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Asrock RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming,

Seasonic Focus GM 750, Samsung EVO 860 EVO SSD M.2, Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe, Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

 

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MSI B450 A Pro, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz, Silicon Power A55 512GB SSD, Gigabyte RX 5700 Gaming OC, Corsair CX430

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Until I can boot into bios/an os yes just Intel HD Graphics 4600 according to Google. Don't know that for sure as I haven't made it into bios or any os... But definitely only onboard graphics. Should I try booting to bios with my dgpu? I don't think it will do any good considering I have no os and therefore no drives for the dgpu...

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