PC won't boot anymore, turns itself on and off again, freezes on the Gigabyte bios screen

BeBen

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Hey guys, pretty worrying problem...my PC won't boot anymore

I have 3 monitors, i used to have 3 acer h236hl but i recently got myself a Acer xb270hu to replace the one in the middle

Gigabyte Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Z97 DDR3 PCI-E16 PCI-E8 XFIRE/SLI SATA3 USB3 HDMI Motherboard
i7-4790k @ 4.6GHz
MSI GTX 980 Twin Frozr
16GB of DDR3 RAM @2400
Samsung EVO 850 SSD 500GB
Evga Supernova 850 G2 80 Plus Gold Fully 850W Modular Power Supply

I was on Windows 8.1 when the problem began tried upgrading to Windows 10 this morning and it seemed to work great at first but now it started again and it just won't boot to Windows anymore

So the problem appeared out of nowhere basically when ''Restarting'' through Windows my PC would stay on, my monitors would go black as if they lost the signal and would stay like that until i manually hold the power button until my PC shut down, pressing the power button again would power the PC on but it quickly turns itself off again, it powers back on again and then off again, at first it would do this 2-3 times maybe before the Gigabyte bios logo would appear on my middle monitor and the computer would boot normally, the computer itself ran perfectly as far as i can tell, 40-45 degrees for CPU/GPU idle and 60-65 under gaming load, really no noticeable problems as far as i can tell

But this morning i upgraded to Windows 10 thinking it might fix it but it really didn't

Now the Gigabyte bios logo only appears on the left monitor and sometimes it has a loading animation but it freezes every time at the same spot and sometimes it said something like ''Preparing automatic repairs'' but it would also then freeze at the same spot every time

One time i managed to get a Windows blue screen that said something about error Windows error 0xc0000017 i think something about memory

The things i've done so far to try and fix it is to take out the CMOS battery for 5 to 7 minutes and removed one stick of RAM, tried to boot, plug it back in, take out the other and try to boot with no success

Any help is appreciated, i kind of need my PC for work and fun, it's quite important to me

EDIT: Got a Windows 10 USB drive, tried booting from it but just like the Gigabyte bios logo splash screen the monitor dims and it seems to freeze to where the rotating loading dots are frozen
 

cewhidx

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I had a similar problem with a friend's computer, and after much trial and error, it turned out to be a bad video card. My advice is to try swapping out components until you find the culprit. If you do not have spare components to try that with, then perhaps you might have access to another pc, that you could test your components in one by one until you can reproduce the problem?
 

BeBen

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So far i've tried RAM sticks one at a time, unplugged the two HDDs one at a time

Nothing worked, then suddenly for no reason it just decided to boot normally into windows, and it's been fine for the last hour but obviously i know the problem isn't solved

Honestly i feel like the problem might be something like http://www.pctools.com/security-news/faulty-capacitor-test/ lots of symptoms on that list applies but i just don't know enough about PC hardware to know or be able to do anything about it myself
 

BeBen

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I do have the latest BIOS, and i can't see Windows 10 being the problem seeing how i had the exact same problem on 8.1