Is one of my drives faulty?

MarioRud

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Parts list:
Intel i5 6600k
Asus z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard
EVGA Supernova G2 550W
Kingston HyperX Fury 16Gb DDR4 RAM
Kingston 120GB SSD
Western Digital 1tb HDD
be quiet! Dark Rock 3 Cooler
MSI GTX 1060 Gaming 6GB

My PC worked fine for about 3 weeks until one day it froze and when I tried booting it back up, the motherboard cycled through the 4 LED's (VGA, RAM, CPU, and BOOT DEVICE) but remained a solid red on the BOOT_DEVICE_LED. Initially I thought this was due to a faulty motherbaord so I got a replacement and the problem still occurs. I also tried changing from my initial Corsair CX600 PSU to the newer EVGA Supernova G2 but that did not solve anything either. When I turn on the PC everything turns on, the fans spin up but I get no display only a message saying that there is no Displayport signal. With the previous board I tried:
- Booting with only 1 stick of RAM (No difference, no beeps, solid red boot device led)
- Booting with no GPU (No difference)
- Using different SATA cables (No difference)
- Unplugging the drives and booting with out them(No difference)

Not sure if this is relevant but I had been using a cracked version of Windows 10 Pro.
It is definitely not the board or the PSU and since the CPU, RAM, and VGA Led's turn off after a few seconds I am guessing none of those are the problem either, so my only guess is my SSd or HDD are faulty or dead. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 
The LED might stay on with no boot device connected. From another post:

"this may sound funny but ive had this happen a few times on my z97-A. To fix it I have to unplug my storage device, boot the pc, trun it off then plug in the storage device and it fixes it. It only happened to my when I changed out hardware and no clue why but it seemed to fix it."
 


I wanted to see if the PC would boot with only the HDD plugged in and connected to the motherboard. I turned off PSU, unplugged the PSU power cord, unplugged the SSD Sata cable from mobo and psu, and now when I press the Power button on my case the PSU makes a clicking noise and nothing turns on. I honestly have no idea what the problem could be now. I also noticed that after turning on the PC for the first time with this new EVGA PSU it worked fine, but after I turned the pc off from the power button and tried to turn it on again, The PSU made a clicking noise and then began making a very faint and barely audible hissing noise. Any ides what the problem could be?