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Order 66

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I was playing Roblox, and suddenly, I get a black screen. I thought, that’s no big deal, Roblox probably just crashed. the strange thing was that the audio from both the game and the music I was listening to was still playing. I tried restarting the system, and the white (vga) light comes on, but the pc still boots and as far as I can tell, still works, except for the whole fact that there is no display out. I’ve tried different DisplayPort cables, to no avail, also, I should mention, I stupidly disabled the IGPU on my 7700x, so I’m completely stuck. I know the system work, because I can see the data access light flashing.

PC specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 7700X, CPU Cooler: ID Cooling Frostflow X 240mm AIO GPU: RX 6800 RAM: 32GB of DDR5-6000, PSU Seasonic Focus GX 850W 80+ Gold, storage: Samsung 980 pro 2TB, Motherboard: Asus tuf b650m plus wifi.
 
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Order 66 said:
I was also seeing that device manager was giving me code 31 that it couldn't install drivers, and AMD software kept saying there was a driver timeout. I wonder if my windows install was corrupted as it had experienced sudden power loss multiple times.
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That is what I suspect (OS corruption). Did you try running DISM and SFC at any point in your previous troubleshooting?

Time for an UPS, young padawan.
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beyondlogic said:
normally it will see it as a unsafe shutdown. ive never needed a ups. Then again i use a proper surge protector thats saved my pc at least twice from storms.
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That makes sense why my OS install was corrupted. Windows probably wasn't safely shutting down, when I would press the power button. I remember looking in event viewer and seeing a whole bunch of warnings, but I didn't think anything of it at the time.
 
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Order 66 said:
I didn't necessarily realize that. I was just constantly holding down the power button to turn off the PC, assuming windows would be fine, but lesson learned I guess.
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when your pushing down on the power button its essentially cutting power regardless if program is running so it can corrupt drivers and in some rare cases from my experiance from when i was young it can sometimes cause small issues with capacitors on a board retaining some electric which can cause pcs to boot loop. if pc fails to start my first port of call is usually switch of the back of the psu and hold the power button down first this just drains any excessive electric in the system.
 
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beyondlogic said:
It did for me while it didnt obviously keep the pc on it did prevent a spike from killing my pc there a cheap way to prevent consoles and pcs from getting damaged providing you buy a good one. should not be confused with a extension lead. as ive seen some people in usa confused the 2
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No, your surge suppressor did not do anything in regard to the loss of power. I may have prevented a surge from something like a lightening strike or other spike. Two different things.

You are correct about having a proper device. By the way, those (nor an UPS) last forever. They should be replaced from time to time.
 
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COLGeek said:
No, your surge suppressor did not do anything in regard to the loss of power. I may have prevented a surge from something like a lightening strike or other spike. Two different things.

You are correct about having a proper device. By the way, those (nor an UPS) last forever. They should be replaced from time to time.
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again i did say in regards to power loss nope pc still did turn off but the surge protector did save it from being zapped.

a decent ups would do both.

probly best advice is if you cant afford a ups right away

then get a decent surge protector. then save for the ups as they normally do both if you get a decent one.

agreed nothing lasts forever especially when its black outs or a storm.

i regularly check my surge protectors every 2 weeks just to make sure they are functioning
 
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beyondlogic said:
normally it will see it as a unsafe shutdown. ive never needed a ups. Then again i use a proper surge protector thats saved my pc at least twice from storms.
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You know, it's funny. I have been building PCs since 1988 and I have never used a surge protector. I've never had a surge kill a PC. I've never had a problem with static damaging anything either. I'm not saying that I'm good, I'm just saying that I've been lucky. 😉👍
 
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Avro Arrow said:
You know, it's funny. I have been building PCs since 1988 and I have never used a surge protector. I've never had a surge kill a PC. I've never had a problem with static damaging anything either. I'm not saying that I'm good, I'm just saying that I've been lucky. 😉👍
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I've not lost a system due to lightening or other electrical spike.

I have "killed" several things over the eons via static discharge though.

A few years ago, I was working from home when the power went out (thunderstorm). I didn't realize power was out since I had no lights on, but network devices and PC were on UPSes and just kept chugging along.

I received a text asking if I had power and that is when I realize it was out.
 
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