Motherboard 5 beeps when monitor plugged into Dock

[ATestW]

Sorry for the noob question, got the instructions about having to plug monitor into GFX card HDMI on my new PC. Works totally fine in this setup.

I have a Kensington dock for work which has a HDMI and was hoping to just switch the USB for the dock between work laptop and my new PC.

When the monitor is plugged into the dock the PC beeps 5 times on startup before working fine once into Windows. Is there a way to avoid this or does the monitor have to be plugged directly into GFX card to not have this noise?

 

[steaky360]

I know my motherboard does that when I don't turn on my monitor first, I've not found a way around it (well... except for turning my monitor on first ) ... Appreciate this isn't super helpful, but if anyone else has a solution I'd also be interested to hear it

 

[ATestW]

Appreciate the reply. My monitor is already powered on in this case though =/

 

[Bigfoot]

How do you switch between different inputs on your Kensington dock? It could be that the dock doesn’t detect a graphics signal from the PC, so has not selected that. Certain ASUS motherboards have a feature that expects a return signal from the monitor to the GPU and report a GPU error if this doesn’t happen (usually 3 beeps for the error, so 4 beeps in total). Can you post the full spec of your PC from your order page?

 

[ATestW]

Bigfoot does exist and he provides PC advice

Appreciate the reply.

So before I turn the PC on I just take the USB for the dock out of the laptop and plug it into the PC (so everything is still powered on before PC comes on). Your theory seems sounds, because the signal is going back via USB not the GPU it may never be able to detect it then?

Spec:

Case COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX MB540 ARGB GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-11600KF (3.9 GHz) 12 MB Cache
Motherboard GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS ELITE AX (LGA1200, USB 3.2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX, Wi-Fi) - ARGB Ready
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive 512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System Windows 11 Home 64 Bit

 

[ATestW]

In the end due to the awesomeness of the new PC it required a new monitor. So I bought a new monitor which had both a display port and HDMI. I now just have the PC permanently hooked up to the display port and the HDMI for the laptop and the USB for the dock just gets swapped taking monitors out of the equation. No more beeping.

Thanks again for the help.

 

[Scott]

Late to the party but that's fairly normal behaviour you are experiencing. I believe you can disable the check in the BIOS though, if you wanted rid of the beeps.

Basically when you switch on the PC it's not detecting a monitor. It can't "see" the monitor through the dock as it's not yet enabled through the Windows drivers.... hence why it springs to life once you hit Windows.

There is a check in the BIOS that you can disable to remove this overcheck, I'm not entirely sure what it is though.

In other news, your current setup will be far more beneficial as using the dock I don't think you will be making use of the 3060Ti.