Hardware problem conundrum

[mistersprinkles]

I consider myself pretty savvy, and I've never really posted asking a question here, but I am in a pickle.

A week or so ago I started having an issue with my machine where it didn't want to wake up from sleep properly. It was weird. The light on the case would go solid lit and the fans would spin up but I'd get no display.

Also sometimes on startup it would boot loop twice (complete with double POST) and then get into windows normally. These issues are ongoing.

Today I had an issue where when I woke from sleep only one of my monitors was getting a signal, and the control panel only listed one display as connected (wweeeiird)

Tragically, I partly suspect my GPU as culprit but I am in denial

I'm really not sure what's going on, and I'd appreciate help. Specs are

4790K (stock) (purchased new July 2016)
ASRock Z97 anniversary (2.00 bios--latest) (from late 2014)
2X8GB G Skill ares C11 2400MHZ DDR3 (from August 2016)
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB (from late 2014)
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB(December 2016)
Seagate ST2000 2TB (Early 2016 or late 2015 can't remember)
All drives pass Checkdisk and show no SMART errors
EVGA 650GQ PSU (Dec 2016)
GTX 1080 G1 Gaming (stock) (Gigabyte) (Dec 2016)

Connected monitors:

LG 22M38 via DVI
DELL SD2716DG via DP

Connected peripherals

KEF X300A USB speakers
Zowie FK1 mouse
Corsair K70 RGB keybo
Logitech C615 webcam


Cheers

 

[mistersprinkles]

Come on guys throw some ideas out there

 

[lude1962]

Is it the DP monitor?

 

[EsaT]

Today I had an issue where when I woke from sleep only one of my monitors was getting a signal, and the control panel only listed one display as connected (wweeeiird)

Who knows what graphics card error state display not responding properly could cause.
Though that could be also bugged/corrupt driver not waking that output from sleep.


As for reboot during wake up from sleep plenty to choose from after quick googling.
Like case of Windows getting "updated" to introduce new tortures for user...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...eep-mode/7b1b0e5d-7921-4e67-bd25-d1678ad794e8

Power supply on its way to grave...
https://www.w7forums.com/threads/pc-rebooting-when-waking-from-sleep.14973/

Drivers and windows settings...
https://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-he...4-bit-restarts-after-resuming-sleep-mode.html

New graphics card...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2612242/reboot-waking-sleep.html


So plenty of various causes.
If wake up proceeds enough to Windows it might give some errors to Event Viewer so have you checked if there are any errors for time of wake up attempt?

 

[Plec]

I would look at the last Windows and drivers update and compare time lines to your problems.

Emphasis, on the latest series of Window updates as these have been problematic for a lot of users and manifesting in a lot of different guises (crippled both my laptops for a while).

 

[mistersprinkles]

Who knows what graphics card error state display not responding properly could cause.
Though that could be also bugged/corrupt driver not waking that output from sleep.


As for reboot during wake up from sleep plenty to choose from after quick googling.
Like case of Windows getting "updated" to introduce new tortures for user...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...eep-mode/7b1b0e5d-7921-4e67-bd25-d1678ad794e8

Power supply on its way to grave...
https://www.w7forums.com/threads/pc-rebooting-when-waking-from-sleep.14973/

Drivers and windows settings...
https://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-he...4-bit-restarts-after-resuming-sleep-mode.html

New graphics card...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2612242/reboot-waking-sleep.html


So plenty of various causes.
If wake up proceeds enough to Windows it might give some errors to Event Viewer so have you checked if there are any errors for time of wake up attempt?

Where in event viewer would I look? I find that thing confusing.

 

[mistersprinkles]

I would look at the last Windows and drivers update and compare time lines to your problems.

Emphasis, on the latest series of Window updates as these have been problematic for a lot of users and manifesting in a lot of different guises (crippled both my laptops for a while).

I really hope it's just a crappy Win10 update and now a HW fault.

 

[Plec]

I really hope it's just a crappy Win10 update and now a HW fault.

You've listed quality components - obviously it's possible for it to be HW linked but with the plethora of crap that MS have unleashed with their 'Creative' update I would certainly want to rule that out first.

I would try some dedicated searches around your issue, cross referencing it with latest updates and perhaps conflicting drivers - you may get some lucky hits (nVidia had to revise a driver to resolve a black screen issue due to the creative release - just one example).

Wouldn't surprise me if they've borked sleep with some hardware combos too...
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Best of luck.

 

[mistersprinkles]

You've listed quality components - obviously it's possible for it to be HW linked but with the plethora of crap that MS have unleashed with their 'Creative' update I would certainly want to rule that out first.

I would try some dedicated searches around your issue, cross referencing it with latest updates and perhaps conflicting drivers - you may get some lucky hits (nVidia had to revise a driver to resolve a black screen issue due to the creative release - just one example).

Wouldn't surprise me if they've borked sleep with some hardware combos too...
.
Best of luck.

Thankyou. I've updated to the latest non-beta NVIDIA driver and so far so good.