Hello everyone, I am having a problem with my system after a recent windows update. I currently run Windows 10 Home Edition 64bit(updated about 2 months ago), for my cpu I have an AMD FX(tm)-8350 Vishera, my motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0, graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 660(non oc), as well as 16GB ram.
After a game crash 2 days ago due to something server side, I opted to restart. Upon doing so I was forced to update as well, going through the typical "preparing windows for update" screen after which it attempted to restart, however upon restart my tower rebooted, but I got no response from my display or keyboard, as well as a singular beep every 25-30 seconds after the initial reboot beep. Upon further inspection I noticed that the VGA LED was solid red on the motherboard, so I attempted re-seating the card, as well as swapping PCIe slots, to no avail. I eventually had to borrow a PCI x8 card to slot in and connect through VGA. I could not get the system to POST with the NVIDIA card in until removing it and switching the primary order to PEG/PCI, which let me put it back in to attempt to troubleshoot. After getting in I got a message saying "windows update failed." I did a bit of research, where a few people had suggested bios/driver updates being the problem in similar situations(even though none seemed to have a singular error beep like mine), so I sucessfully flashed the BIOS on the motherboard to the latest from ASUS to possibly help with any compatibility issues, as well as flashed the now non responsive GTX 660 vBIOS(sucessfully completed, but first time attempting.) with the latest update available from Nvidia. None of this worked, so I tried a "clean install" of the drivers suggestion from a topic, which involved uninstalling the device drivers from device manager and then checking for changes which would reinstall them. After uninstalling the GTX 660 Device Drivers the system crashed about 30 seconds later, taking me to a blue screen saying windows has crashed unexpectedly and tries to restart. The computer reboots up until bios screen, but crashes before getting to windows login. I cannot get around this now even with the primary graphics order switched and am forced to completely remove the GTX 660 card in order to get into windows. I don't know if the failed Windows update has somehow bricked the card, or if It just picked a very coincidental time to die, but I would like to try and identify the problem before buying another card. I am a novice and am worried i'll do more harm than good trying to figure this out on my own. Any help would be appreciated, also sorry for sloppy post form.
After a game crash 2 days ago due to something server side, I opted to restart. Upon doing so I was forced to update as well, going through the typical "preparing windows for update" screen after which it attempted to restart, however upon restart my tower rebooted, but I got no response from my display or keyboard, as well as a singular beep every 25-30 seconds after the initial reboot beep. Upon further inspection I noticed that the VGA LED was solid red on the motherboard, so I attempted re-seating the card, as well as swapping PCIe slots, to no avail. I eventually had to borrow a PCI x8 card to slot in and connect through VGA. I could not get the system to POST with the NVIDIA card in until removing it and switching the primary order to PEG/PCI, which let me put it back in to attempt to troubleshoot. After getting in I got a message saying "windows update failed." I did a bit of research, where a few people had suggested bios/driver updates being the problem in similar situations(even though none seemed to have a singular error beep like mine), so I sucessfully flashed the BIOS on the motherboard to the latest from ASUS to possibly help with any compatibility issues, as well as flashed the now non responsive GTX 660 vBIOS(sucessfully completed, but first time attempting.) with the latest update available from Nvidia. None of this worked, so I tried a "clean install" of the drivers suggestion from a topic, which involved uninstalling the device drivers from device manager and then checking for changes which would reinstall them. After uninstalling the GTX 660 Device Drivers the system crashed about 30 seconds later, taking me to a blue screen saying windows has crashed unexpectedly and tries to restart. The computer reboots up until bios screen, but crashes before getting to windows login. I cannot get around this now even with the primary graphics order switched and am forced to completely remove the GTX 660 card in order to get into windows. I don't know if the failed Windows update has somehow bricked the card, or if It just picked a very coincidental time to die, but I would like to try and identify the problem before buying another card. I am a novice and am worried i'll do more harm than good trying to figure this out on my own. Any help would be appreciated, also sorry for sloppy post form.
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