So my brother was playing For Honor on his pc, and the game crashed to a black screen, thought nothing of it, restarted, crashed to a black screen again, tried again and for a 3rd time black screen when playing.
Now it won't even load windows. It's connected to a tv via hdmi. It loads all through the bios ok, gets to the spinning windows logo, goes to switch from the low res mode to the proper mode (I assume when it loads the driver), and just black screens. Sometimes it glitches a few times as if it's trying to change resolution, but it just black screens.
Safe mode loaded once, but then started to black screen. If you leave it for a while, safe mode sometimes works.
Bios doesn't show any corruption or any issues, posts ok, just won't load windows at all, just blackscreens.
Gpu is a r9 290 vapor-x and is 4 years 3 months old.
Quick edit:
Managed to get into safe mode, ran ddu. Could boot windows after that and was in the low res mode. Tried to reinstall the AMD drivers, got to 44%, screen went black, it tried to change res and black screen and frozen again.
So I assume it's dead?
Now it won't even load windows. It's connected to a tv via hdmi. It loads all through the bios ok, gets to the spinning windows logo, goes to switch from the low res mode to the proper mode (I assume when it loads the driver), and just black screens. Sometimes it glitches a few times as if it's trying to change resolution, but it just black screens.
Safe mode loaded once, but then started to black screen. If you leave it for a while, safe mode sometimes works.
Bios doesn't show any corruption or any issues, posts ok, just won't load windows at all, just blackscreens.
Gpu is a r9 290 vapor-x and is 4 years 3 months old.
Quick edit:
Managed to get into safe mode, ran ddu. Could boot windows after that and was in the low res mode. Tried to reinstall the AMD drivers, got to 44%, screen went black, it tried to change res and black screen and frozen again.
So I assume it's dead?
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