Unexpected black screen in windows 7, and "Display/Retrace test failed" at bootup.

Jarvis94

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Nov 11, 2015
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Hi!

Since i moved in to another house, after the transport my PC started giving this "Retrace/Display test failed" beep codes when i started it up, without signal to the monitor. After a few tries it started without a problem. And this routine we have about 2 months now, sometimes it starts without any problem, sometimes it needs a few try, but yesterday and today it started to give a black screen when im in windows. So no problem with the bootup, but in windows it sometimes unexpectedly gives me a black screen, stucked sound, and then it automaticly restarts.
I've checked all the cables, removing almost everything and putting it back, but nothing.

PC:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0Ghz
Asrock P43DE3 motherboard
8GB Kingston Hyperx DDR3 memory
GTX660Ti
60GB SSD OCZ Vertex
1TB HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate(64bit)
 
thing is when moving or like when I went to a lot of lan partys during transportation things can be easily bumped around like a hard drive arm or the platters is sensitive to this

so even with great care anything could be knocked around just enough to cause some knida damage - my lan party rigs I did not expect them to last too long [mostly hard drive issues ] or the weight of the card flexing in the pci-e slot - it don't take much of a bump or bumped just right to cause here to spit her bit

good luck