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If it booted normally, it passed POST. if it failed POST, it would have beeped multiple times, and not successfully booted. You're absolutely fine :)

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 So this morning it was quite noise in my room with my birthday and all (water running, dialogue going on between me and my mom, fans spinning) and I didn't hear the POST beep - now - everything booted up normally and the paranoid individual in me rebooted 5 time and it posted every single one - haven't know the system to miss one before and my question is - if it doesn't post - could it load normally? I thought that if no post is heard you get a black screen or the PC flat out refuses to boot.

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You're seriously paranoid that if you miss a beep - which I might add, I don't even hear anymore due to being so used to it - that you reboot 5 times to see if it beeps and then ask if a computer that starts up just fine loads normally?

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POST - power on self test - the beep you hear from the PC which means everything is fine on with power and voltages and everything is properly connected.

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POST - power on self test - the beep you hear from the PC which means everything is fine on with power and voltages and everything is properly connected.

edited. read again. I've been dealing with computers for most of my life. I know what POST is :P

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D.VA coming soon™ xoxo

Sapphire Acer Aspire 1410 Celeron 743 | 3Gb DDR2-667 | 120Gb HDD | Windows 10 Home x32

Vault Tec Celeron 420 | 2Gb DDR2-667 | Storage pending | Open Media Vault

gh0st Asus K50IJ T3100 | 2Gb DDR2-667 | 40Gb HDD | Ubuntu 17.04

Diskord Apple MacBook A1181 Mid-2007 Core2Duo T7400 @2.16GHz | 4Gb DDR2-667 | 120Gb HDD | Windows 10 Pro x32

Firebird//Phoeniix FX-4320 | Gigabyte 990X-Gaming SLI | Asus GTS 450 | 16Gb DDR3-1600 | 2x Intel 535 250Gb | 4x 10Tb Western Digital Red | 600W Segotep custom refurb unit | Windows 10 Pro x64 // offisite backup and dad's PC

 

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Archon Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE

Gulliver Nokia Lumia 1320

Werkfern Nokia Lumia 520

Hydromancer Acer Liquid Z220

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edited. read again. I've been dealing with computers for most of my life. I know what POST is :P

Hah, sorry, yeah, I'm pretty paranoid - I've had some issues which I could share if you want - I now think the issue is the software but I was scared it might be a dying GPU or Mobo - I replaced my old PSU for coil whine since I was not about to let it burn my PC which took so much effort to get.

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
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Are you sure you actually turned your computer off the night before and it wasn't just in hibernation mode? Would explain the absence of the post beep.

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Are you sure you actually turned your computer off the night before and it wasn't just in hibernation mode? Would explain the absence of the post beep.

I'm pretty sure I did - I also might just not have heard it - like I said - was noise, was curious whether it could boot up normally if no post since that usually means PSU or Mobo issues.

Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280  3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
Windows 10 is now MSX! - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/440190-can-we-start-calling-windows-10/page-6

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If it booted normally, it passed POST. if it failed POST, it would have beeped multiple times, and not successfully booted. You're absolutely fine :)

Oh, okay, thanks for the reassurance to you and everyone ^_^

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
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Some reasons why you don't hear beeping or see anything:

- you have turned those things off from mobo

- screen isn't on

- background noise is covering beeping.

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Your computer is fine. The majority of computers I've used don't have a post beep. Or if they do, they have it switched off. Normally the POST beep comes from a buzzer connected to the motherboard. Most of the motherboards I've seen have headers for said buzzer, but not the buzzer itself.

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Some reasons why you don't hear beeping or see anything:

- you have turned those things off from mobo

- screen isn't on

- background noise is covering beeping.

Screen wasn't on I believe - not yet anyway - that could actually cause it?

 

At some point, my old PC stopped beeping while booting up.

Everything is gonna be fine.

I get you tho, I'm kinda the same...  :mellow:

I didn't even use to listen to it but now that I know it's a thing I try my best to note it every boot-up :D

Eh, I've been all over the place recently - here's a shortlist of why

So far

Chivalry Artifacts - people have noted that on Nvidia so it might be just a bug

Chivalry Crashing - followed a forum's advice and deleted CookedSDK and it went away

Crysis 2 flickering - not sure but it was there 7 months ago IIRC

Firefox - guess it really is a bug after the screen you showed me

Coil Whine - I guess that's an odd ball - it went away but it was whiny for the first day after I put the card back

GPU-Z readings - so far I've seen 3 cards read the same - 1 gigabyte and 2 sapphire and I refuse to believe a guy who bought 2x 280Xs has 2 broken VRMs and 2 separate cards from 2 separate batches

HWmonitor's 1.250 seems the same as Aida64 which is well within normal reedings

Temps - I guess they're fine so far

Buggy Models in Chivalry - probably the engine

I was pretty sure it's the GPU - almost sent it back - but I dug some more, some Nvidia guy told me had the same black things in chivalry - and yeah - a friend showed me a similarly messed up firefox :D

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
Windows 10 is now MSX! - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/440190-can-we-start-calling-windows-10/page-6

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Your computer is fine. The majority of computers I've used don't have a post beep. Or if they do, they have it switched off. Normally the POST beep comes from a buzzer connected to the motherboard. Most of the motherboards I've seen have headers for said buzzer, but not the buzzer itself.

it could also be the buzzer that's the source - or I just didn't hear it while talking with my mom.

Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280  3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
Windows 10 is now MSX! - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/440190-can-we-start-calling-windows-10/page-6

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