Hello Toms Hardware forums. I've bumped into a unique issue with a new build.
On an am4 mobo of recent make, we used the driver disc that came with the MOBO to update whatever Windows 10 drivers that required patching. Process was going smoothly, classic fade in's and fade out's, till the screen turned pitch black for a solid 10+ minutes. We decided to restart the machine.
Thereafter, we would get display output just fine, all the way till the Windows 10 loading circle was finishing every time. Whenever the W10 loading process got finished, we'd get a "no input" message on screen.
You'd think that this would be a driver issue, and that we ought to roll back, or go into safe mode and uninstall the VGA driver. Well. Before we got to that, we attempted to swap out the VGA cable for an older one, to see what would happen. And it worked. The PC provided display output all the way into Windows and beyond. We restarted again. We replugged the previous cable. Once again, same old issue. Display working fine into UEFI, but after the Windows loading circle, dead screen.
So it's not as if the cable is dead, or the drivers are malfunctioning ( at least, not to the point where using another cable wouldn't work). For some reason, it now dislikes our first VGA cable. The motherboard is a Gigabyte B450M S2H, and the cpu a Ryzen 3200G, if that information is worth anything. The display is just an old VGA monitor, and to my knowledge, it has showed no issues in the past. Has anyone ever met such an odd issue before?
On an am4 mobo of recent make, we used the driver disc that came with the MOBO to update whatever Windows 10 drivers that required patching. Process was going smoothly, classic fade in's and fade out's, till the screen turned pitch black for a solid 10+ minutes. We decided to restart the machine.
Thereafter, we would get display output just fine, all the way till the Windows 10 loading circle was finishing every time. Whenever the W10 loading process got finished, we'd get a "no input" message on screen.
You'd think that this would be a driver issue, and that we ought to roll back, or go into safe mode and uninstall the VGA driver. Well. Before we got to that, we attempted to swap out the VGA cable for an older one, to see what would happen. And it worked. The PC provided display output all the way into Windows and beyond. We restarted again. We replugged the previous cable. Once again, same old issue. Display working fine into UEFI, but after the Windows loading circle, dead screen.
So it's not as if the cable is dead, or the drivers are malfunctioning ( at least, not to the point where using another cable wouldn't work). For some reason, it now dislikes our first VGA cable. The motherboard is a Gigabyte B450M S2H, and the cpu a Ryzen 3200G, if that information is worth anything. The display is just an old VGA monitor, and to my knowledge, it has showed no issues in the past. Has anyone ever met such an odd issue before?
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