Takinalis

I actually love these old docks, and I hope they return, and not the crappy slide in thunderbolt kind, but this old kind. It makes day to day use for desk in offices clean compared to clunky, wired, dongle hell.

Try hooking up a keyboard and mouse, and with them hooked up.... Try connecting the monitor through the alternate connections on the card (DVI, HDMI), especially if you've used the input previously.

In Task Manager, under details for the exe (right click), what cores does 'Set Affinity' display?

My best suggestion is to take it apart as much as you are willing and able, then put it back together again. You'd be surprised how often this works, just be careful not to break anything, if you disconnect the CPU from the cooler be sure to scrape and reapply thermal paste. Good luck

This is a long shot, I think your boned, but try burning a Plop Boot Manager ISO and try some of the boot options there. If that doesn't get it.... then... eh... maybe connect the drive to another machine using an adapter and seeing if anything survived. Seeing as to how it was MBR that means it was legacy boot, so if this doesn't work...

bootrec /fixboot is a bad ideal in this case, I'm glad it bounced you. Google the microsoft bootrec page, and follow the instructions for rebuildbcd " bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup c: cd boot attrib bcd -s -h -r ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old bootrec /RebuildBcd " If that doesn't get it, you might be truly hosed.

I suggest Razer Cortex GameBooster for this one (actually, I want to suggest a really old version by IOBITS, but that's probably what I would do for me).

Yeah, I've been there before. Long and short: Your Linux partition contained your boot loader. Your Windows install is fine. You'll need a recovery CD for the Windows you're running. Maybe google for a way to make this happen? Anyone have any suggestions? Then you need to google the microsoft page for bootrec.exe I would suggest going for bootrec /fixmbr and the full instructions for bootrec /rebuildbcd where you attrib the file and rename to bcd.old.

OK, this is obviously Windows 10. In my opinion for the average user, your best bet is to click start and type 'Reset this PC'. Feel free to keep your files in this case ~ I believe it wipes out %temp% and %appdata%, which is probably where the virus lives, but probably delete everything out of your downloads folder without prejudice. You'll need to reinstall your games, your MS office and any other registered software - install your steam client your battle net and what nots, and then have fun. Just my opinion on your quickest, safest, easiest route back to good health.

Most my stuff is really old ~ Y510P (2013) is my daily driver, I connect to Shadow Tech on it (Quadro P5000 gfx) so I guess that counts too somehow even though it's a subscription? My phone is a OnePlus6T. On my desk I also have a Surface RT, iPad 2, and an iPod on iOS 9.x. On my shelf I have a Dell Latitude D610 for old games and a Gateway M280E (world's first widescreen tablet), again for old games. Somewhere downstairs I have a Jornada 720 and a really old HP computer of some sort, along with a Dell Desktop from 2010. That's the stuff I care about ~ I probably have a couple of machines I've forgotten.