Computer Won't Boot to BIOS, No Display

[Black Dovahbear]

I'm running a 2 power supply build which has been working for me for the past year now. This is a dell prebuilt machine, I just added new parts and additional memory. This machine is the XPS windows 7. I hope that's enough information for you guys.

I booted up my PC this night to be greeted with a "scanning and repairing drive" from Windows (I wasnt on my desktop yet) and It got stuck at 72 percent for the longest time. About an hour. So I restarted the PC and waited again for the process to complete. Waited about 15 minutes before trying to boot into safe mode. When I tried to boot into safe mode, nothing appeared on screen. Nothing was showing. I'm shit all outta ideas here and I need some help.

I've tried resetting the CMOS which didn't change anything.

I've tried reseating the graphics card. Nothing.

 

[asoroka]

Just confirm that you can get into BIOS.

Otherwise how do you boot to safe mode.

It looks like your disk as failed.

Can you boot off a USB or cdrom?

 

[Black Dovahbear]

Everything was working fine until I tried to boot into safe mode. Then, I was getting no display. I'll see if I can boot from USB or CD-ROM. I don't think it's an hardrove issue because the night before I turned on my system windows said my hardrive was fragmented and I had to restart. I choose to restart later. Then the message saying "scanning and repairing drive. 72% complete". I tried to boot into safe mode to bypass this process. But as you know it had no display.

 

[Black Dovahbear]

Okay, I created a USB boot drive and tried to boot off that. No luck. I don't know what else I can do.

 

[Black Dovahbear]

I plugged the monitor into my mobo and on boot it said I had to plug it into the GPU in my PC. So I took the GPU out of my system which both means my 2nd PSU was no longer connected to the system and I was able to access the BIOS. I switched the settings around and was able to get a normal boot. I'm currently waiting on windows to finish it's automatic repairs. This may take a while but it seems I may have fixed my problem. I will keep y'all posted if anything bad comes up.

 

[Black Dovahbear]

I plugged my HDMI cable into the mobo with the GPU still mounted and managed to get a message from the BIOS telling me to plug it into the cable into the GPU but I instead took out the GPU and booted from there. I was able to access the BIOS and customize my boot options. With this Kobo I decided to boot using legacy settings and managed to get a successful boot. I had to sit through the 30 minutes of waiting through automatic windows system repairs which may or may have not helped. Anyways I was able to boot to desktop with no issues.

 

[asoroka]

as a side issue why do you have 2 PSU?

 

[Black Dovahbear]

I have 2 PSU's because my GPU required more power than my PSU could provide so I got a second spare one and jumped it's cable to power my GPU.