Black Screen After W7 Logo / Startup

Dreamion

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Hi, newly built PC, this is my spec:

- ASUS H81M-A mATX
- SSD 120GB OCZ Arc 100
- Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) CL9 1600Mhz Ballistix
- Intel Core i5 4690K 3,5 GHz, 6MB
- MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB GAMING
- Fractal Design Integra M 550W 80+ Bronze

I built this on thursday and everything worked fine, the next day I left the PC on for about 2 hours and when I came back I couldn't get a signal on the screen, at all!

After that I tried numerous fixes:

- Re-installing drivers.
- Re-installing windows.
- Switching from "Hybrid BIOS" to "Legacy BIOS" on my R9 280 GFX.
- Switching out power cords from the PSU.
- changing BIOS GFX setting to "PCIE" instead of "AUTO" or "iGPU".
- Resetting CMOS / Jumpers.

Then I tried putting the R9 280 GFX card into my other PC rig, had the same response, wouldn't show anything on screen. I looked it up on google and saw that alot of people have had problems with this card, so I guess it failed on me. (Though not sure)



After all this mess, I figured I'll just use another card. I plug in my old Nvidia GeForce GTX 560Ti, boots up just fine.

But as soon as I install the Nvidia Driver and reboot, the "No signal to monitor" starts. I can hear that windows is running on my headphones but it just wont connect to the monitor.

The onboard GFX works fine, also removing the nvidia drivers WILL let me past the logo / startup screen.

This is what I've tried so far:

- Reinstalling new and old nvidia drivers, removing them using guru3d driver removal tool.
- Disabling the onboard graphic card using device manager.
- Updated BIOS to latest version.
- Changing BIOS GFX setting to "PCIE" instead of "AUTO" or "iGPU".
- Reinstalling W7 with a clean slate.
- TdRdelay to "10".
- Juan Merlos "Fix" on the forums.

If someone have any solution to this problem, It would be greatly appreciated!
 

TaliBong

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are you using a DVI connection? it sounds like it could be your monitor EDID playing up, I gave up on using DVI monitors on windows 7 because this black screen issue happens too often. Press F8 during boot and enable VGA resolution. Does it happen on other OS's? Have you tried using a VGA cable so you have to manually set screen res? I've found the only permanent solution is to not use a DVI cable, or use another OS.
 

Dreamion

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Hi TaliBong!

Yes, I'm currently using a DVI Monitor with a DVI cable, i tried to swap to my other DVI monitor but that didn't work either. I haven't tried to change to a VGA cable yet because I dont' have one atm, I'll try and get a hold of one.

I tried doing the F8 and enter "Enable low-resolution video (640x480)" but that didn't work either.

I'm also thinking about installing my OS on a HDD and see if that'll do anything atm.