Hi all,
Starting this morning, my PC is refusing to boot. I am met with a black screen before the BIOS screen. (I'm now realising that I don't remember if I usually see it, but I know I'm normally able to enter setup or the boot order with DELETE and F11, neither of which work at the moment)
All of my devices receive power, as both my keyboard, headset and mic are lighting up. My monitors are receiving some kind of signal as well, since one lists the HDMI input as ACTIVE and leaves the backlight on, while the other lights up briefly before going to sleep. The boot screen usually shows on the HDMI one.
My first thought was that the GPU was the problem, so I switched it with a spare, but with no luck there. My second thought was that the motherboard was the problem. The problem is that I don't know which stage of booting it is stuck on. Pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE reboots the computer (all devices turn off and then back on, so I assume it is rebooting). Is this a Windows thing, or is it a motherboard thing?
I have also tried unplugging all my drives except a USB drive with a Windows recovery image on it, but it doesn't react.
The only idea as to what might've caused this I have, is that I ran the Windows driver verifier tool a couple days ago, not realising until looking it up just now, that it is a developer tool. Yesterday night was the first time I actually shut down my PC since then, so it might be trying to check the drivers or something. I'm not too sure about this though, since that should be a Windows thing, and booting onto the recovery-USB without the boot drive plugged in shouldn't be impaired, right?
If any other pieces of information can be useful, please let me know. Any help or suggestions as to what might be the problem are highly appreciated.
Starting this morning, my PC is refusing to boot. I am met with a black screen before the BIOS screen. (I'm now realising that I don't remember if I usually see it, but I know I'm normally able to enter setup or the boot order with DELETE and F11, neither of which work at the moment)
All of my devices receive power, as both my keyboard, headset and mic are lighting up. My monitors are receiving some kind of signal as well, since one lists the HDMI input as ACTIVE and leaves the backlight on, while the other lights up briefly before going to sleep. The boot screen usually shows on the HDMI one.
My first thought was that the GPU was the problem, so I switched it with a spare, but with no luck there. My second thought was that the motherboard was the problem. The problem is that I don't know which stage of booting it is stuck on. Pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE reboots the computer (all devices turn off and then back on, so I assume it is rebooting). Is this a Windows thing, or is it a motherboard thing?
I have also tried unplugging all my drives except a USB drive with a Windows recovery image on it, but it doesn't react.
The only idea as to what might've caused this I have, is that I ran the Windows driver verifier tool a couple days ago, not realising until looking it up just now, that it is a developer tool. Yesterday night was the first time I actually shut down my PC since then, so it might be trying to check the drivers or something. I'm not too sure about this though, since that should be a Windows thing, and booting onto the recovery-USB without the boot drive plugged in shouldn't be impaired, right?
If any other pieces of information can be useful, please let me know. Any help or suggestions as to what might be the problem are highly appreciated.