Trouble booting, not sure if motherboard or hard drive

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All of a sudden, I've been having a bunch of issues with my PC. Started after I unplugged and moved everything to put in a new desk. When I plugged everything back in it failed to boot and went to a black screen. I couldn't even launch BIOS. Yet I was receiving a POST beep. After a lot of finagling I was able to successfully boot but the troubles don't end there.

I have 3 hard drives; one SSD for the OS, and two HDDs. When I was finally able to launch, one of the HDDs wasn't recognized. So I powered down, unplugged and plugged the hard drive. Upon powering up it went back to a black screen, but still with a POST beep.

Another thing I noticed was that audio was completely gone. I tried installing the Realtek driver (it was uninstalled because it previously gave me lots of issues) and still have no audio. I'm thinking it might be the motherboard that's the source of my problems. Was wondering if anyone had any advice/feedback to help me out.
 
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PTOWN GAMER

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yeah if you cant see the Bios that cause the MOBO is screwed, not the harddrive. Cause when you boot a pc without a harddrive you will still see the BIOS.

But it could be the PSU aswell, it might be half dead or something, so it cant provide full power to the MOBO to start up properly.
 
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Thanks. I'm kind of hoping it's the motherboard as I have that under warranty. Bought a PSU tester to put it all to rest. I'm thinking it might the be the mobo though, simply because even when it does successfully boot, it skips over the usually startup screen and if I try to launch the BIOS it goes to the black screen.
 
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PTOWN GAMER

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your better off just getting a new motherboard. Cause when you send it for the warranty fix, they only fix it so it just works, then after 2 months its gonna screw up again.

whenever i took my pc to the shop to get it fixed it would crap out, not would it only crap out it would come back slower than before.
And now i fix the things my self, and it doesnt slow down. Who knows what they do to our parts when we send them for repairs.

Just get a new Board.
 
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thefriedberger

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Turns out the warranty expired Saturday so it'll be new motherboard if that's the problem. It's almost as if it waited until one year was up to fart out on me. Anyway, I appreciate the help.

 
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