Monitors suddenly displayed "No Signal" mid game, PC won't boot past Windows 10 logo

[MrGroggle]

Hi all,

I was playing The Division earlier today, and was just running around normally when both my DVI monitors shut off without warning and displayed "No signal". I rebooted the system, but now the same thing happens as soon as the Windows 10 logo disappears just before main boot. I'm unable to get into safe mode through F8, but I'm downloading a Windows 10 setup disk to attempt safe mode access. Does anyone have any other ideas of what the problem might be?

I'm running a GTX 660 ti, FX-6300 and 8GB DDR3 RAM, with a 550W PSU, on a 970-A G46 motherboard and Windows is installed on an SSD

Thanks,

MrGroggle

 

[MCFCBlue]

Have you tried another output on your graphics card? DVI, Hdmi etc.. or even your motherboards Output

 

[rgd1101]

Have you tried another output on your graphics card? DVI, Hdmi etc.. or even your motherboards Output

FYI, FX-6300 no igpu, 970-A G46 no igpu either.

to OP sound like either the gpu or the PSU might be the issue.
What the make and model of the psu?

 

[MrGroggle]

Sorry for the late reply. The PC booted correctly after leaving it for about an hour, while I got a recovery disk sorted for emergencies. I was able to continue playing without incident for the next couple of hours. This evening, after I got back from work and while launching some applications just after startup, the issue occurred again.

PSU is an OCZ ZS 550W PSU. I've had it for about 5 years now. I can boot into safe mode fine, and the event log shows no errors or warnings about it. It's as if nothing's happened.

As rgd1101 said, can't really test integrated graphics on the board as I unfortunately don't have any.

 

[ffg7]

if works in safemode but not normal mode then is a videocard driver issue. try selecting last known good working configuration in the safemode menu or try a system restore to before this problem started in safemode.

 

[MrGroggle]

Ok, so I've uninstalled all the nVidia drivers using Guru3D's DDU. I'm now booting to normal Windows using the default display driver. I've since tried re-installing the latest drivers, and drivers from Dec 2015, both of which go straight to black screen. Is it advisable to keep trying new ones until something sticks, or could my GPU be on the way out?

 

[ffg7]

is this your latest driver version? http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/99512/en-us

 

[MrGroggle]

Yeah, that's the one I had installed. I've wiped all the drivers and have tried the earliest non beta driver I could find, which didn't work. I'm now system restoring back 6 days ago to see if it might have been a registry issue or something.

EDIT: This hasn't worked. I rolled back 6 days ago, which of course put the drivers back which immediately booted to black screen. I've now wiped the drivers again and I'm back in normal boot, but without drivers, and any that I install immediately blackscreen the PC. Another interesting facet to this is now, whenever I try a new driver update, the black screen kicks in, the sound goes, and now the graphics card fan goes at full tilt until I reboot the system.

 

[MrGroggle]

Looks to be sorted, I did a fresh Windows 10 install, which didn't work, followed by a CMOS reset and a reseat/clean of the graphics card. Drivers installed after that. Thanks for all your help guys!

MrGroggle