I’ve just built this gaming PC for my girlfriend.
It’s built around my old R9 280X (3gb).
It’s got a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 8gb of Viper 2400mhz RAM, a GIGABYTE B450M DS3H motherboard and a Corsair VS650 650W PSU.
It also has a 1tb WD blue HDD.
Build went great, installed Windows via USB and then downloaded four of her games from Steam.
The PC was running for about four of five hours flawlessly.
We were away for the weekend, came back today, and booted it up again for the second time so far.
It loaded fine, but as I started to put he password in for her user account on Windows the screen went black.
Nothing else happened apart from that; the PC was still on and running fine, and even the HDMI port on the TV was hi-lighted solid white in the menu to denote that not only was the cable plugged in, but that it was displaying a picture as it should.
But it wasn’t. The screen was black, and rebooting the PC several times, unplugging and plugging back in the GPU to the motherboard and unplugging and plugging back the HDMI cable at both ends and in different ports did nothing.
So I’m somewhat stuck now. Everything was working fine before so I don’t really know what’s going on or where to start trouble shooting.
As I say, when he PC is on everything is whizzing round as it should be, apart from a black screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
EDIT: I should add that when I say there’s a black screen, my display just says no input as if there’s nothing plugged into the HDMI port. Except the TV recognises something is plugged in and that what is plugged in has power.
I have also tested the GPU in another system and it works fine.
It’s built around my old R9 280X (3gb).
It’s got a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 8gb of Viper 2400mhz RAM, a GIGABYTE B450M DS3H motherboard and a Corsair VS650 650W PSU.
It also has a 1tb WD blue HDD.
Build went great, installed Windows via USB and then downloaded four of her games from Steam.
The PC was running for about four of five hours flawlessly.
We were away for the weekend, came back today, and booted it up again for the second time so far.
It loaded fine, but as I started to put he password in for her user account on Windows the screen went black.
Nothing else happened apart from that; the PC was still on and running fine, and even the HDMI port on the TV was hi-lighted solid white in the menu to denote that not only was the cable plugged in, but that it was displaying a picture as it should.
But it wasn’t. The screen was black, and rebooting the PC several times, unplugging and plugging back in the GPU to the motherboard and unplugging and plugging back the HDMI cable at both ends and in different ports did nothing.
So I’m somewhat stuck now. Everything was working fine before so I don’t really know what’s going on or where to start trouble shooting.
As I say, when he PC is on everything is whizzing round as it should be, apart from a black screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
EDIT: I should add that when I say there’s a black screen, my display just says no input as if there’s nothing plugged into the HDMI port. Except the TV recognises something is plugged in and that what is plugged in has power.
I have also tested the GPU in another system and it works fine.