Urgently need help; GPU overclock fail, into system repair loop.

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Hey. So, unfortunately not here for good reasons.

So, recently I'd looked into overclocked my PC in various areas (CPU and GPU).
I overclocked my CPU fine, absolutely no problems at all.

Then came the GPU, and I followed a guide online and everything worked perfectly, slight extra FPS in benchmark tests, games etc.
Everything worked perfectly for a few hours (played BF4 beta after overclocking and testing). I have two monitors and always have GPU Temp, RealTemp and CPU-Z running, and all my temps were absolutely fine.

Then, after those few hours gaming, my left monitor messed up out of nowhere, starting flickering like mad and made everything look crazy. I thought it was my connection so I took out the HDMI and then plugged it back in, then the flashing went to the other monitor, so I restarted my PC hoping it was just glitching. The system wouldn't boot and went into System Repair mode. It did what it wanted, restarted, and went back into System Repair again. And looped like it for about an hour to no avail. I assume the whole problem here is because of the GPU, hence the buggy monitor thing.

I've tried 2 different methods of getting out of the repair loop, neither worked. Tried resetting the BIOS, everything. (I can't get into Safe Mode, no idea why. When I hold F8, it asks what OS I want to boot, and that's it).

So, does anyone know what to do? I can't boot up and reset the GPU speeds to normal so that's out of the question, and I can't remove the video card drivers either, obviously because I can't boot at all.

P.S: The only thing I haven't tried is taking out the video card completely and then seeing if it boots. Should I try that at all, or not bother? If I do need to do that, could anyone help me through what I'd have to do once the card is removed?

Thanks in advance to anyone, really don't want my computer to die here. :(
 
Take the card out and see if it boots, assuming you have some onboard display, least if it does boot you know it's your gfx card and not something else.

I have a 3570k so I do have onboard graphics :)
So I just plug in a VGA to my motherboard IO panel, and see if it works? Do I need to flip a switch on the motherboard or anything?
 
Nope just plug it in on your motherboard and fire it up, hopefully you'll get a display

Yep, it works. Still boots into System Repair though. I think my win7 might have corrupted. When I first got this PC from the shop it wouldn't boot and kept going into SysRepair and I ended up having to re-install Win7. Reckon that's what I should do? Annoyingly enough I'm gonna lose 500GB of stuff. :mad:
 
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