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Javin

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Good morning! I ran into a problem yesterday morning (Of course the day after Overwatch released :,( )...well at least it was the end result of an on going problem, this is what's been going on. So a few months ago every time I booted up my PC I started to notice that it wasn't as quick to boot up as a regular SSD should be. It would get past the "BIOS Launch" screen. Then there would be a little "Type line" that appeared in the top left. It would sit there for a minute or so before it actually made it to Windows. Looked into it and it said that it could be a possible hardrive failure? Since it would take its sweet time in doing this, I avoided having to power down my computer just so I didn't have to deal with it.

Fast forward until yesterday morning, when I booted it up it would make the initial beep, get passed the BIOS Launch screen and that was about it, it would just kinda sit there at black screen...restarted it a few times, then it would finally boot into windows. I would login, but I wasn't really able to use anything. Anytime I tried to click on the "Start" button in the bottom left it would just show the loading sign. When I tried to click anything on the task bar it would just have the loading sign, which it's never done before. Figured that some of the Windows files have became corrupt. Tried to do a fresh install of Windows, but I wasn't even able to boot from CD! No matter which way I went about it, it was impossible to boot from CD which it's never done before. I took the SSD to work and I cleaned and wiped it with a fresh install of Windows 10. Brought it back to my house and installed it back into the desktop. Tried to boot it up but I don't get ANY picture whatsoever on my monitors, just that there is no "DVI Signal". I swapped out the video cards with an older video card that I have, still the same thing "No Signal". I fidgeted with the pluggins to the MOBO to make sure nothing came loose. I've resetted the BIOS by removing the Lithium battery and holding the power button. I plugged my monitor into my laptop and the picture goes through just fine, so it's not the monitors. All of the fans are going, all the LED's are working, even my MOBO that has LED's and has a number Gauge (Not sure what its displaying...) but it works too and says 55.

Typing this out and re-reading it is making it sound like it could be a potential MOBO problem? Trying both graphics cards with no prevail, plugging my laptop into the monitors and having them working fine, not being able to boot from CD even when I change the boot priority & manually choosing a boot option in the BIOS with it not actually going through.

Would love to hear some insight and feedback from you great people! Thanks in advance!

Specs:
Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) (BX80646I74790K)
ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO DDR3 2800 LGA 1150 Motherboard socket
GTX 780
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)
CORSAIR RMx RM750X 750W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 128GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7KE128BW
Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
ASUS VG248QE 24-inch LED-lit Monitor 144Hz refresh rate 1ms pixel response time & 3D capable
 
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I don't have a onboard GPU. At least my mobo dosen't have a VGA or any other connector to connect to the monitor. I'll try the bench it troublshooting when I get off of work. I appreciate your response. I will update you later on my findings, fingers crossed :/
 
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Went home and tested running the HDMI straight to the mobo with integrated graphics and I still didn't get anything on my monitor. Might just rule it off as a burned out motherboard....would rather replace the mobo then the graphics card. I appreciate your help my man.
 
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In case you don't really care for being updated on the situation anymore just let me know and I can quit replying lol.

Went home after work yesterday to tackle what the problem really was. what I did was disconnected all of the cables to the motherboard except the 24 pin connector to the motherboard and the power cable to the CPU. I also left the RAAM installed but removed the GPU, whilst the HDMI was plugged into the motherboard and also clearing the CMOS lithium battery. Booted it up and nothing happened like usual.

This time I had removed the raam and cleared the CMOS once again, to see if I was going to give some kind of error code out of the motherboard. Surprisingly it did, it was 1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps meaning that it's telling me that there is no RAAM installed. I plugged the RAAM back in and tried turning it on. It would go through these series of booting then turning off. After it did this a few times it booted up with display on my monitor. It flashed, saying that the BIOS was updating? Then quickly went away and sat there was a black image on the screen...I restarted again and it went to a start screen telling me to press F1 to enter the BIOS settings to change this specific thing that was in Advanced>Boot>(Can't remember) So I powered down. Reattached everything including the GPU and plugged the HDMI into the GPU. Pressed the power button and it would go through the restarting and starting faze again before it would actually hold the boot and go through the startup. Went into the BIOS and tried booting from CD. It would then display the purple background that Windows 10 intalling CD's have, but wouldn't give me an option to choose anything after that. Just a blank purple screen like it's trying to boot it up.

Seems like somewhere along the line, information is incorrectly being passed through the motherboard
 
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I want to make sure one thing: you can boot the PC by using the onboard iGPU, right? that is good.

And you may try update the BIOS by the USB BIOS flashback method. Here is the youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVvHwq3syqI
When you do the USB BIOS flashback, take out all the hardware, only cpu+cpu cooler + also connect the 24pin + 8pin power cable to the MB. You download the BIOS, rename the BIOS file, then update the BIOS. Here is more info http://www.asus.com/microsite/2014/MB/New_4th_gen_Intel_processor_compatibility/#models

After done the update, try boot the PC with onboard iGPU+ one stick RAM, if you can boot again, then add the gtx780 to see you can boot or not. If you have problem to boot, that means either the PSU or gtx 780 has problem, if you can boot, add the SSD with OS in to boot the PC again. And you may try to add the hardware one by one, then you will find out which one has problem or not.
 
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Alright cin19....it's finally over...the war is over lol....I seriously can't thank you enough for your help. I was damn close to clicking purchase on a new mobo before I decided to refresh my notifications yesterday morning. I didn't know that such a feature had existed for my motherboard.

Created the USB for my specific mobo went home at lunch, flashed it with nothing else in it but the CPU plugged in. I plugged everything back in after the flash. Side note I should mention, I plugged BOTH of my hardrives in...my SSD and my Cold Storage drive. I booted from CD and it just took FOREVER, stuck at a "Setup" screen. It took so long that I just decided to let it sit while I went back to work.

I came back a few hours later and it managed to get passed this screen. I set up my new desktop hoping that everything was fixed, but I was wrong. What I noticed, I wasn't able to navigate the menus like I should be able to, quick and responsive. It was sluggish and sometimes wouldn't register when I clicked on things. It wouldn't necessarily be slow for programs like "Chrome" & "Geforce Experience" but it was for when I was in File Explorer! I would try to navigate my files and would shortly be confronted with "Not Responding" then it would crash. I opened my task manager to view the processes that were taking place and found the issue. I should have wrote the name of these processes down..but basically there was these 3-4 processes that were duplicating on top of themselves. I would manually end their task but to no prevail because of them self duplicating so quickly and they were soaking up all 16gb of my raam, which might be the reason why I was getting the sluggish menu navigating and crashing of my file explorer. I opened their file location of this process and it it opened right to the directory files of Windows. Which there seemed to be about 30x the amount of files that should be in my windows files, not even kidding.

So I powered down my machine. I removed my cold storage drive and left my SSD in there. I then went rummaging through my drawers and found my authentic Windows 7 install. Popped it into the CD drive and booted from CD. Mind you I wasn't getting the first problems that I was receiving before. When it booted from CD it was very quick to get the process underway. Installed windows 7, went and downloaded a Windows 10 iso....(I know I know, windows 10 just has great duel monitor support..) re-created a boot CD with windows 10, and tried again. Again nothing that I had mentioned before happened, all booted quickly and installed quickly. I prepared my desktop and WHALA! It was working beautifully, and without this possible "virus" on it anymore. As of NOW I still have yet to reattach my cold storage back to the computer. I made sure to install AVG last night, in the case something bad trys to happen when I do reattach it at some point today, but its up and working currently :)

Sorry for wall of text...but seriously I can't thank you enough for your help. If you have a bitcoin address or some kind of way that I could tip you in any way I would love to. You prevented my from dropping a extra 130 dollars on a new motherboard that probably wouldn't have even solved my issue, and I would have thrown a perfectly good one away. Shooting 10 bucks your way for your help is the least that I could do. Hopefully when find a solution to my cold storage device, I can get back to Overwatch again >: )
 
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