Hello Community! Last night everything was working, watching the Game Awards till late night, turned off my PC as usual and went to sleep. Woke up today, turned on the PC and now i have problems.
So i immediately notice, that the moment i press the power on button, the system is quickly to boot, which seemed to me a bit odd. It usually takes 1-2 seconds to hear the fan spinnings, but now it's instantly happening the moment i press power on button. It does the standard 1 short beep.
BIOS logo and text appears, but won't register any keyboard inputs to access any of the BIOS menus. It beeps short once, one more time while BIOS logos still on screen. After around 20-30 seconds, it beeps shortly once again, and goes into a black screen. I can still hear the fan spinnings, and shortly sometimes i hear the HDD "working". Then it just stays at this black screen forever.
When it's in this black screen state, i can press the power button and it will immediately shut off, so i can guess it's not even "found" or booted windows.
This is what I've tried, but with no helpful results:
Specs:
Windows 10 Pro, version 1909 (x64-bit OS)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M--D3H
CPU: Intel i7-3770 @ 3.4hz
GPU: GTX 970 Strix
RAM: 2x 8gb Kingston DIMM 240-pin - 1600 MHz
PSU: Corsair tx850w
PC is old, but I've always taken good care of it, new thermal paste and recently upgrade from gtx 670 to gtx 970 a few months back. Never had a problem like this, happened overnight. I did for the first time on this PC, play Cyberpunk 2077. It worked fine, no crashes, acceptable performance. So i don't suspect anything to do with that. There was an windows update 2 days ago as well, but nothing seemed odd to me throughout yesterdays use. From my experience, i would think it was my SSD with windows installed? Either SSD dead or corrupted windows, since it can boot, show BIOS but just doesn't get anywhere from there.
So i immediately notice, that the moment i press the power on button, the system is quickly to boot, which seemed to me a bit odd. It usually takes 1-2 seconds to hear the fan spinnings, but now it's instantly happening the moment i press power on button. It does the standard 1 short beep.
BIOS logo and text appears, but won't register any keyboard inputs to access any of the BIOS menus. It beeps short once, one more time while BIOS logos still on screen. After around 20-30 seconds, it beeps shortly once again, and goes into a black screen. I can still hear the fan spinnings, and shortly sometimes i hear the HDD "working". Then it just stays at this black screen forever.
When it's in this black screen state, i can press the power button and it will immediately shut off, so i can guess it's not even "found" or booted windows.
This is what I've tried, but with no helpful results:
- Unplugging, cleaning and re-plug the RAM sticks, tried with only 1 stick plugged as well.
- CMOS Battery reset and complete replacement with fresh new battery.
- Tried booting with integrated GPU via the HDMI port directly from Motherboard ( Doesn't even give a signal to monitor)
- Unplugging storage HDD and booting only with SSD that has Windows installed.
- Took all USB devices out and booted without any devices + only booted with Keyboard inserted.
- Disconnect DVD Drive and try booting without the drive connected.
- Tried booting with HDMI into my TV instead, weirdly enough no signal at all when using a TV.
Specs:
Windows 10 Pro, version 1909 (x64-bit OS)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M--D3H
CPU: Intel i7-3770 @ 3.4hz
GPU: GTX 970 Strix
RAM: 2x 8gb Kingston DIMM 240-pin - 1600 MHz
PSU: Corsair tx850w
PC is old, but I've always taken good care of it, new thermal paste and recently upgrade from gtx 670 to gtx 970 a few months back. Never had a problem like this, happened overnight. I did for the first time on this PC, play Cyberpunk 2077. It worked fine, no crashes, acceptable performance. So i don't suspect anything to do with that. There was an windows update 2 days ago as well, but nothing seemed odd to me throughout yesterdays use. From my experience, i would think it was my SSD with windows installed? Either SSD dead or corrupted windows, since it can boot, show BIOS but just doesn't get anywhere from there.
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