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Go into the bios and double check your boot priorities.  Make sure you are still booting to the drive with your OS.

 

And are you overclocking by chance?  

THANK YOU I checked my boot priorities and they were correct but I decided to wipe my MB bios anyway and it turns out that somehow the MB had flashed the bios in a weird way. :)

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Hey guys i have a huge problem I was on my PC browsing Newegg and my main screen went black and my secondary monitor went blank except for a flashing _ in the top left corner? Now every time I turn it on i get that same flashing line and no boot ( this whole time my main monitor stays off) Every couple of times i turn it on it tells me that windows failed to book and i can get to my MB bios but cannot get windows to boot!

 

Any suggestions please help!

 

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AMD 4170K 

GTX 780

OCX 120g SSD

WD 1TB HHD 

Asrock Extreme mother board

Seagate 450 watt PSU

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Hard drive failure maybe? Or corrupted OS.

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Try reinstalling the OS

 

Hard drive failure maybe? Or corrupted OS.

The HHD is spinning and my boot is on the SSD and that should be running fine but not sure about it. How would I test for the failure of the SSD becasue that is where my boot files are. And i have a new 840 evo should i try to instale the OS on that but im only stuck on that screen with the flashing dash?

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Go into the bios and double check your boot priorities.  Make sure you are still booting to the drive with your OS.

 

And are you overclocking by chance?  

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Go into the bios and double check your boot priorities.  Make sure you are still booting to the drive with your OS.

 

And are you overclocking by chance?  

The FX 4170 is running in turbo an the GTX 780 is evga super clocked and I OC'ed it a very minute amount and was having no artifacting or crashing

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Hey guys i have a huge problem I was on my PC browsing Newegg and my main screen went black and my secondary monitor went blank except for a flashing _ in the top left corner?

 

i suspect ninja Linus

sorry for not being helpful :(

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maybe the gpu might have slid a bit out of its socket

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Go into the bios and double check your boot priorities.  Make sure you are still booting to the drive with your OS.

 

And are you overclocking by chance?  

THANK YOU I checked my boot priorities and they were correct but I decided to wipe my MB bios anyway and it turns out that somehow the MB had flashed the bios in a weird way. :)

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THANK YOU I checked my boot priorities and they were correct but I decided to wipe my MB bios anyway and it turns out that somehow the MB had flashed the bios in a weird way. :)

Glad to hear it!  Good call on your part to flash the bios.  Sometimes computers do crazy inexplicable things.

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