Black screen on boot with GTX570

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Ok, so i have this huge problem with my system.
It posts correctly, and then proceeds to load windows.
Directly after the windows logo, when its supposed to show the login screen, my monitor goes to sleep. I suspect the display card driver, as I am able to boot into safe mode.

I tried uninstalling the nvidia display driver and reinstalling it in safe mode, using ccleaner in between and before to clear the registry. After reinstalling the display driver the problem simply came back.

Before this problem my computer was hanging in games (particularly arma 3) pretty severely. I noticed that these hangs corresponded with the HDD usage rising to 100% for no reason. All of my programs and windows itself is on my SSD. Eventually these hangs got worse, and at a certain point my graphics card driver starting failing, and then restarting. I unplugged the power and sata cable from my HDD, because i thought that might have been causing the problem, couldn't hurt, could it? Well, after disconnecting the HDD this black screen problem started.

Its not the drivers is it? I reinstalled them cleanly.

Any Ideas? or is my GPU just shot. I also tried individual ram sticks with no luck.