SPECS
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OS: Windows 10
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Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Ranger (2 years old)
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GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro (2 years old)
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CPU: Intel i5 6600K (2 years old)
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PSU: be Quiet Dark Power 11 (?), 650 Watt, Platinum (I can't find it right now and I'm at work so I can't check, but I think it's correct like that) (I just bought it a couple months ago)
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SDD: 120GB Samsung 750 Evo (new)
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HDD: 1000GB Seagate Desktop HDD (2 years old)
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RAM: 2x 8GB HyperX Fury DDR4-2666 DIMM (2 years old)
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Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z (2 years old)
Okay, something in my PC is definitely broken, I just need to find out what and sort out if it's a bios problem. I hope someone can help me here, since I don't have much experience with PC's. (also please excuse any mistakes, english is not my first language)
WHAT HAPPENED:
In the last couple days, when I played Guild Wars 2, my PC used to crash into a unresponsive black screen. When I forced it to turn off and on again, that would work with no problem (boot directly to Windows). I still checked what I could think of, like temperature. I monitored it, but it was not too high, cleaned the fans anyways. Then yesterday, it crashed again, I turned it off, turned in on again - no signal detected. The PC would start, lights, fans, all that stuff, but my monitor would just light up and tell me "no signal detected. Then I noticed that my GPU fans are not spinning when I start the PC.
WHAT I TRIED:
First I tried a hdmi cable in my gpu, didnt work (I used a white dual link one before). Then I took the GPU out, cleaned it, put it back in, there wasn't much dust though anyways. Then I noticed (I don't know too much about PC's) that the "Boot Device LED" is lit up. It also made one additional beep after the standard beep I always used to get. I also got a Q Code "99" most of the time (Super EA initialization?). So I thought mhh okay boot device? I took out my SSD & HDD, nothing was different. I tried new cables, checked my PSU, even reseated my watercooler on my CPU and refreshed the "paste". Then I thought: welp okay, looks like my GPU just died and maybe thats interfering with the boot somehow. So I took it out, put the hdmi cable in my motherboard, nothing happened. Still no signal. So then I was scared that my motherboard has an issue. I took one RAM out (read that I should try booting it with just one in), nothing happened, put it back in, tried different ridges, nothing. Then I plugged the hdmi cable in again and for some reason I was getting a signal this time? So it booted into bios. I used the boot override to boot it to windows, that worked, but I got an error (I think A7? I forgot, but I think it's not important anymore, because I don't get it anymore since I flashed bios). So a friend helped me try out some bios settings, but whenever I saved and reset it would just go to "no signal detected" Q-Code B2 and "Boot Device LED" lit up orange constantly. Turning it off and on, resetting it, nothing could get it to boot to bios again, EXCEPT when I pressed clear CMOS. Then it worked. It never booted directly to windows though. So we tried more things, I took this battery out, put it back in after a while, nothing changed. Then! I tried turning my PC on without the hdmi cable in. I put it in WHILE it was booting and BAM - it booted directly to windows. I reproduced that a couple times - it works like that every time. Not when I try to connect my GPU though. My PC doesn't recognize it as connected either.
So I have all this information from the testing, but since I am a PC noob, I dunno what to do with all that. I already ordered a new GPU because I wanted to upgrade anyways, but I'm afraid that this doesn't solve the problem, because my PC has issues with booting up properly.
Soooo.. What are my chances that really just the GPU is dead? Does anyone have a solution or maybe have some input on what else I could try? Especially what does it mean that I get a signal when I put the hdmi cable in WHILE it's booting? (the cable was unused and still packaged btw, I never used it before, so you could say it's new?) Thanks in advance, I'm really lost.
Submitted May 02, 2018 at 03:32PM by theorieundpraxis https://ift.tt/2FBj3t9
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