No display on screen on SOME boots - error in Device Manager

Wlumby

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Mar 25, 2014
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Well.

Sometimes when I boot up my PC, it goes through the regular boot up, and after it goes through the Starting Windows screen, the display goes black and I get no output on my monitor. The PC is still running, but no display. After a manual reboot, I get the message that Windows has failed to start. Then, when I get into Windows, I find that my Blue Snowball ICE isn't working, and that it has a yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager (Error 10 - failed to start). After unplugging and plugging the microphone back in, it all works fine, even for multiple boots of the PC after that. However, sometimes the problem will occur, and sometimes the PC will have "No Display" on my monitor for about 10 seconds, then suddenly spring into life, giving the same problem when I get into Windows.

Any suggestions?

Specs:

i5 4430 @ 3.2ghz
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
GTX 760 Direct CUII
500GB WD HDD
8GB Corsair RAM
600W Corsair PSU

Blue Snowball iCE
 

Wlumby

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Mar 25, 2014
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I can find nothing regarding the Blue Snowball in Event Viewer. As I said, the only error I can find is Error 10 - failed to start in Device Manager.