Is my PC completely borked?

Vidar · 19 Jun 2017 at 16:04

Hi guys,

Turned on my PC last night after work to a completely black screen, hit the reset button and briefly and system began to post, initial information and then press F2 or Delete to enter bios and then completely black screen again. Rebooted again for the same thing to happen only quickly saw that no drive was detected before the black screen again though after a few minutes came up with the insert boot media message and restart.

Inserted my windows 10 recovery usb and got stuck with that blank screen again. Have tried entering my bios by hitting the delete and or the f2 keys but it seems not to register and I get nothing but the blank screen.

I'm at a loss as to what I can do and what the problem is and really need some help... any ideas?

Mariusz · 19 Jun 2017 at 16:33

Have you removed the cmos battery to clear the cmos?

Has the pc been moved recently? Any cables knocked?

Vidar · 19 Jun 2017 at 16:44

Will try clearing the cmos now....

Pc hasn't been moved or knocked

agnes · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:01

Splash screen then nothing after? Entirely black screen? Activity light for HDD usage? Any sounds? Try put the video cable directly into the motherboard to rule out GPU failure.

Vidar · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:23

Cmos reset hasn't done anything, getting a hdd and ram error led on the board itself now though I have re seated the cables and ram.... will check the gpu like you say

EsaT · 19 Jun 2017 at 18:01

Have you tried new CMOS/RTC battery?
It being empty can cause some crazy symptoms.

And what hardware you have there?
Including PSU.
Cause something could have failed.

Vidar · 19 Jun 2017 at 19:01

Had a new battery laying about and already tried that.... I know the SSD is borked as I was able to get into the bios once and it wasn't showing, my storage drive was however.... but as soon as I came out its back to the black screen.... I've tried it with one stick of ram in different slots, thats made no change, I've tried it with and without the GPU and thats made no difference either even tried installation media hoping i could install on my storage drive but again got nothing.

Have tried re sitting the cpu as well and nothing.... going to run round to my mates tomorrow to check the 970 and individual components on his test rig tomorrow to see if I can single out the culprit. I was hoping it would just be the SSD but that's not seeming likely now.

Dead board perhaps?