Black screen after windows logo

Dudui

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Oct 10, 2014
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Started last week, I was playing dota then suddenly a bunch of colored lines appeared on my monitor then everything blacked out. Everytime I open my computer it goes up to the windows logo, then it blacks out, no sound, no lights on keyboard. I couldnt open it while my monitor was connected to my video card so, i tried connecting it to onboard graphics(vga) and it worked.

So I figured it might be my video card that has the problem, updated my drivers and everything
(had trouble with this, so I even reformatted, then installed the driver). I think the drivers are working properly as I can see it in the device manager.

The only thing that works is when I connect the monitor to the video card is when I go to safe mode but everything is discolored. Is my video card dead? are there any other things i missed checking? (I also tried removing the card and pc boots up fine)
 

khmerog

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May 20, 2012
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Are you sure you didn't hook up a black microwave to your PC. If you are sure that it's not your microwave you are staring at then go to BIOS and try changing the primary video output to where your video card is slotted in, whether it is pciE or agp..etc. the default set up is on Auto i think, so change that and see if it works.
 

Dudui

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Oct 10, 2014
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Actually when I set it to where my video card is, thats when it blacks out. I can only get past when I set it to the integrated one( igpu i think).