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Basically I was in the process of getting ready to do a clean install of W10 which is on my ssd.
I backed up files and then formatted my hdd which just had games on.
Turned off, disconnected the hdd and turned back on, tried hitting delete/f12 and nothing but a black screen and monitor saying no signal.
No beeps or anything.
Any ideas?
 
could u have dislodged the GPU remove it and reseat it and also rmove the power cables going into it and reseat.
Insure all other power connectors are connected right
Remove and refit RAM sticks might have nudged one as there normaly pretty close to the SATA ports.

Give us specs of PC....

But I would imagine its some thing simple tbh
 
Nah switched on all working happy, transferred some files to USB stick (photos) formatted the hard drive. Quick check I'd got everything then shut down.
Open the case disconnected hard drive which is on the left side. The gfx card is on the opposite side of the case. Just no signal at all. All fans simmering away, orange light on motherboard led (Asus Prime z270)
I5 7600k
8gb Corsair vegeance
Xfx Rx480 8gb
Samsung ssd
Wd 1tb hdd
 
Got it working. Well I had plug it into the onboard graphics on the motherboard. Used the hdmi port on the motherboard and using onboard graphics, I'm assuming I have to install gfx card drivers and then plug it into hdmi on gfx card and it will work?
 
If all you did was disconnect the HDD it does seem odd. Are you sure you might not have dislodged one of the PCIe power connectors to the card when you pulled the connector out of the HDD?

Have you checked the BIOS to see if anything has gone awry with the settings - like disabling PCIe video output or forcing use of onboard graphics?
 
All working now, was just being a knob. Updating windows currently, steam games re-installing. But can't install Forza 7 from Microsoft account.
 
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Still got a problem. It displays normally but then when I restart I get the no signal, restart again. Plug in and out still nothing. Then get restoring back to original windows. So can't get the windows update working.
 
My guess would be:

Faulty GPU - can you try it in another machine?
Faulty PSU - if it's unable to deliver enough power to the GPU it won't work correctly.
Faulty power cable - try plugging another into the GPU (assuming it uses additinal power cables).
 
My system did something like this on restarts- turned out to be Window's SATA driver. iastora.sys or something was causing the issue, had to restore three times in one day.
Device manager-storage controllers- find which, if any, show iastora,sys, then click to update the driver, then select from drivers on this computer. Can't remember the name of it, but there's a generic SATA driver that isn't iastora.sys. Choose that one.

It's something to do with a particular Windows update not liking its own drivers.
Maybe unrelated, but the symptoms are similar to what I had, so worth a look... It was a while back, so sorry this is a bit vague. Whether that also cures the GPU issues I have no idea, but the restart issues sound familiar...
 
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