Updated BIOS and now have no display and a red VGA light

Electric Boogaloo · 5 Nov 2019 at 19:26

I have a Gigabyte B360 HD3 motherboard and just bought an i7 9700K CPU that's coming later this week. Before then I knew I had to UPDATE the motherboard's BIOS so it could support the new CPU. I did that tonight, updating to the latest F14 driver using Q-Flash, and everything worked fine. But after the progress bar reached 100% my PC reset and now there's no display on my monitor.

All of the fans, lights, and the keyboard and mouse come on fine so it seems like the PC is booting up properly, but there's a red light on the motherboard for the VGA. I haven't touched anything other than updating the BIOS so I doubt there's a connection issue or anything with my graphics card.

Any ideas on what to do?

I have a Kolink KL-500 PSU

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GT OC Dual Fan 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Quad Core Processor

DoneADougalOnSofa · 5 Nov 2019 at 19:55

Try the motherboard gpu port. It might have defaulted to igpu when you updated

Electric Boogaloo · 6 Nov 2019 at 10:23

DoneADougalOnSofa said:
Try the motherboard gpu port. It might have defaulted to igpu when you updated

Tried this. My monitor keeps flashing HDMI 1 in the corner like it's trying to get a signal, which didn't happen before, but I still have no display.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 6 Nov 2019 at 18:47

Hmm.
That doesn't sound encouraging.

Try removing the gpu completely, and have a go with the onboard graphics. You might get something without the discrete board installed

jsmoke · 6 Nov 2019 at 19:02

You've tried taking the bios battery out for 30 sec I assume ?

Is there anyway of reflashing from a USB stick or CD?