I know what you're thinking.. It must be the video card, but I already ruled that out. :/
All day today, I had been using my desktop like any other day. I left for a few hours.. Came back to black monitors.. Desktop power light was on, so I moved my mouse.. Nothing... Hit the keyboard a few times.. nothing.. I decided to power cycle the computer after a few failed attempts..
The computer powers on, but nothing on the monitors at all.. I wait.. nothing..
I power it off again.. try again a few times... Nothing.. I open the tower, remove the video card.. Try the onboard display port.. Nothing, back screen... I try the onboard HDMI port.. Nothing, black screen...
The motherboard showed an error code Ab.
I unplugged the power, held down the power button to discharge any caps.. no change.
I turned it off and on a few times.. and no change to the error code, or behavior. Except on one occasion, the system power cycled itself and stayed on the second time.
I removed the ram completely.. Powered on.. got the error code 55 on the board, then it power cycled itself, over and over again.. 55 on the board, power cycle, 55 on the board, power cycle..
I inserted one stick of ram, it tried to boot, again, but no video.
I inserted all memory again, tried to boot.. Now it shows the error b2..
I have tried removing the CMOS battery, and tried removing an SSD installed a few weeks ago... Neither helped.
My build: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/md6fkd
Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I am at a loss here..
edit 1:
I decided to reseat my video card, and the error code is different now.
Now I am getting bF, which is actually the error code that seems to be the normal state.. its been on my board since the day I bought it... Still no video.
edit 2:
I decided it would be best to troubleshoot with the onboard video until I rule out the MB as being the culprit.. I removed the video card, and connected a monitor via the onboard display port. I rebooted, and the error code flashed between E1 and 02..
I rebooted again, and it hung at AE for a long time.. So I rebooted it again.. Again, the system hung at AE, but as I was typing this, it switched out to bF (normal state). I still have no video at all, just black screens... and yes, the power to the monitors is on.. I have checked about a dozen times, hoping I was just being an idiot.
All day today, I had been using my desktop like any other day. I left for a few hours.. Came back to black monitors.. Desktop power light was on, so I moved my mouse.. Nothing... Hit the keyboard a few times.. nothing.. I decided to power cycle the computer after a few failed attempts..
The computer powers on, but nothing on the monitors at all.. I wait.. nothing..
I power it off again.. try again a few times... Nothing.. I open the tower, remove the video card.. Try the onboard display port.. Nothing, back screen... I try the onboard HDMI port.. Nothing, black screen...
The motherboard showed an error code Ab.
I unplugged the power, held down the power button to discharge any caps.. no change.
I turned it off and on a few times.. and no change to the error code, or behavior. Except on one occasion, the system power cycled itself and stayed on the second time.
I removed the ram completely.. Powered on.. got the error code 55 on the board, then it power cycled itself, over and over again.. 55 on the board, power cycle, 55 on the board, power cycle..
I inserted one stick of ram, it tried to boot, again, but no video.
I inserted all memory again, tried to boot.. Now it shows the error b2..
I have tried removing the CMOS battery, and tried removing an SSD installed a few weeks ago... Neither helped.
My build: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/md6fkd
Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I am at a loss here..
edit 1:
I decided to reseat my video card, and the error code is different now.
Now I am getting bF, which is actually the error code that seems to be the normal state.. its been on my board since the day I bought it... Still no video.
edit 2:
I decided it would be best to troubleshoot with the onboard video until I rule out the MB as being the culprit.. I removed the video card, and connected a monitor via the onboard display port. I rebooted, and the error code flashed between E1 and 02..
I rebooted again, and it hung at AE for a long time.. So I rebooted it again.. Again, the system hung at AE, but as I was typing this, it switched out to bF (normal state). I still have no video at all, just black screens... and yes, the power to the monitors is on.. I have checked about a dozen times, hoping I was just being an idiot.