Black screen after disabling onboard graphics

Thidical

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Apr 7, 2015
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I've accidentally disabled my onboard graphics through the Device Manager. I got a black screen, and so I turned my computer off. I saw that I should remove the CMOS battery on my motherboard after finding nothing in the Gigabyte BIOS so I did so. It was hard to remove, so much so that I just pushed it back in the little bit that it came out and to my surprise after rebooting it said that my BIOS had been reset though the battery had barely gotten out of its holder thing. It asked me to click choose optimised settings and reboot and so I did but I still have a black screen, please help!
 
Honestly a correctly performed BIOS reset should have this fixed. Run through these steps one more time for us and let us know if it comes back for you:

-Disconnect all power sources (power cable, monitor, powered speakers).
-Press the power button to discharge any residual power in the system.
-Open the case, and locate the battery on your motherboard.
-Take the battery COMPLETELY out. What 1 minute. Put the battery back in the slot.
-Put the case back on and reconnect everything.
-Power on.

If you end up at the same BIOS screen try to choose a 'default' setting instead of optimized and see if that works.
 
Yeah. If you have a GPU, it could work. If you do, just put it in the PCIE slot and boot the PC with the GPU as the visual adapter. Windows should display everything correctly. Then go to device manager and enable your CPU's iGPU. Or the only solution I can think of atm, is a clean installation of OS
 




I have an MSI GTX 970. It is in the PCIE slot but in the BIOS it is set to the visual adapter already, still a black screen
 


Have you got your monitor connected to the video output on the GPU, rather than the motherboard's native output?
 


Nope, one monitor. It seems to have fixed itself after I have left it for 15 minutes though.. sorry!
 


That wasn't what I was asking exactly, but glad you got it fixed..