ASUS Z170 Not booting up anymore

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Hey guys. I just did a fresh build on a new PC and picked the Asus Z170 Deluxe motherboard. I have Windows 10 running with everything updated. I played a few steams games last night and everything was working great. I decided to try the 5 way optimization from the AI Suite 3 and ever since then, it won't boot anymore or show Windows. After I pressed the 5 way optimization button, there was a message that said the computer might restart a couple times during the process. After it restarted, it came back on and the fans are extremely loud now. Nothing comes up on my display. Blank screen, loud fans. I've tried restarting. Tired unplugging and plugging back in. Even tried unplugging and pressing the power button to drain capacitors. Still, nothing. Blank screen, loud fans. Sometimes when I restart the code is A9 and others A0. Please help!!!! I have no idea what to do. Thanks
 
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Asus 5 way optimization is a fancy name for software that overclocks your system. It seems your overclock failed.

In cases of the overclock failing, you may need to clear the CMOS to return the BIOS to a non-overclocked state. Instructions for clearing the CMOS are in the motherboard manual.
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Asus 5 way optimization is a fancy name for software that overclocks your system. It seems your overclock failed.

In cases of the overclock failing, you may need to clear the CMOS to return the BIOS to a non-overclocked state. Instructions for clearing the CMOS are in the motherboard manual.
 
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JewDaddyV1

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Tried it, still doing the same thing. But here's an update. So if I take my graphics card out completely and plug my HDMI into the onboard graphics, windows boots up just fine. So I went ahead and uninstalled all the Nvidia drivers while I was in windows and then re-inserted my video card. Windows booted up fine but nothing showed up if I have the HDMI plug into the video card. I went back into the onboard video, went into device manager and my graphics card was not showing up. I tried scanning for new devices and it still didn't show up. I tried reinstalling the Nvidia driver and it would stop because it said there was no graphics card detected. I was starting to think it was a hardware problem and I still had my old video card which is an nvidia gtx 680. I plugged it into the second PCI E express port just in case it was something on the motherboard. So, different card, different slot. Started it back up and then the fans were running super loud like they did before. I can still get into windows if I have my HDMI cord plugged into the onboard video but still it's not recognizing any graphics card. My friend who is a computer guru seems to believe it's a Windows related problem. I installed 8.1 and then upgraded to 10. He thinks it's something that happened in the upgrade. I disagree because everything was working just fine and I was able to play games until I did that stupid five way optimization. Any ideas?
 
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