Asus G53SX black screen on power

So I’ve had this laptop for a year now and recently it’s been doing this thing a lot where after it goes to sleep in my backpack when I try to wake it up the light up keyboard flashes on and it makes some noise then goes silent and the keyboard dims and the screen doesn’t come on.

I think this is somehow related to peripherals plugged into the laptop as it just happened to me and I took out the battery and put it back in and tried this about 5 times unsuccessfully. Then I plugged in my headphones (to listen for startup sound, I was in a quiet study lounge) and it boots perfectly. Also, the first time I noticed this it was remedied when I removed an sd to microsd converter I had left in the sdcard slot. Anyone have any ideas?

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