PC will no longer post to bios and i now have LED indicator lights showing on the mobo

[Youngy]

Hi anyone that might be able top help me,

last night and for some time leading up to my PC breaking i have not had any issues. this morning i go turn on my PC only for it to post to the screen that i will show in the 1st pic.
i then proceed to run the repair option only for it to fail the repair. since then i have been unable to get the PC to post at all.

i spent the rest of the day attempting to troubleshoot.

after opening the side up i could smell a very faint but distinct smell of burnt / overheated electronics at which point i decided to strip everything from the PC case down to
individual components inc removing the CPU.
 

I inspected all the components and wires to the best of my ability and cant find anything that looks burnt or melted, I also sniffed everything to find the cause of the smell to no avail.

at this point I have decided to put everything back together and start up.

computer starts up and dose its usual boot thing however not displaying anything on the screen.
i now have 2 diff Qcodes displaying on the mobo d7, A2 i have looked up these codes and tried to troubleshoot these but no dice. I also have 2 separate LED indicator lights on the mobo, BIOS1 and boot drive LED. however i am not sure if they were present before my issue this morning.

Hopefully i have not left out any information.
plz note that all components in this PC were part of the original build 7-8 years ago.
i feel like i would be better off building a new system however this one did everything i wanted it to do.

I appreciate any help that anyone may be able to provide.

PS. the CPU fan speed error on the pic has been there since i built the system. I regularly inspected the fans were operational and could never work out why i had this error.

Components:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Mobo: ASUS Maximus V Extream
CPU:  i7 3770k
RAM: G.skill Ripjaws 4x 4gb (16gb)

PSU: Antec 1000w (non modular)

GPU: ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II

Case: Coolermaster HAF X

SSD: 1x OCZ Vertex 4 128gb (boot drive)
HDD 1x 2tb, 1x 3tb
Monitor's: 3x cheap Samsung LED LCD 27inch monitors

 

[PopsicleHustler]

From that picture I can assume that your GPU might be dead. Have you tried removing GPU and booting on integrated GPU?

[Tombfoot]

14 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

From that picture I can assume that your GPU might be dead. Have you tried removing GPU and booting on integrated GPU?

I agree. That kind of artifacting is nearly 100% GPU.

Also if you smell burning electronics have you checked the capacitors? Make sure none of the capacitors have ballooned tops or look otherwise comrpomised. They should be perfectly cylindrical and not have any bulges. Is there any charring around the gold plated connectors on your GPU? It definitely sounds like something has died related to the GPU.

[Youngy]

39 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

From that picture I can assume that your GPU might be dead. Have you tried removing GPU and booting on integrated GPU?

GPU was my first thought but i decided to ignore that as i didn't think that a GPU would completely stop the computer from booting to windows.
I have just done what you said and removed the GPU and i have managed to get picture with the integrated gfx so looks like GPU may be dead.
i just have the issue now of the PC unable to boot past the bios as for some reason it can not find the OS.
i made sure the correct boot drive was selected in the bios but no change.

 

[Youngy]

31 minutes ago, Tombfoot said:

I agree. That kind of artifacting is nearly 100% GPU.

Also if you smell burning electronics have you checked the capacitors? Make sure none of the capacitors have ballooned tops or look otherwise comrpomised. They should be perfectly cylindrical and not have any bulges. Is there any charring around the gold plated connectors on your GPU? It definitely sounds like something has died related to the GPU.

yes when i striped the system i checked for all those things and was unable to find anything out of place tho it possible that i could have missed something

 

[Tombfoot]

17 minutes ago, Youngy said:

GPU was my first thought but i decided to ignore that as i didn't think that a GPU would completely stop the computer from booting to windows.
I have just done what you said and removed the GPU and i have managed to get picture with the integrated gfx so looks like GPU may be dead.
i just have the issue now of the PC unable to boot past the bios as for some reason it can not find the OS.
i made sure the correct boot drive was selected in the bios but no change.

 

The BIOS recognises the drive?
If the drive shows up in the BIOS then it should be okay. Try a fresh install of windows on it. If the drive is very old though you should be careful, make sure all your important data is backed up and if you hear any strange noises or notice the drive behaving strangely it is probably time to get a new drive.

[Youngy]

3 minutes ago, Tombfoot said:

The BIOS recognises the drive?
If the drive shows up in the BIOS then it should be okay. Try a fresh install of windows on it. If the drive is very old though you should be careful, make sure all your important data is backed up and if you hear any strange noises or notice the drive behaving strangely it is probably time to get a new drive.

yes correct the BIOS can see the SSD that the OS is on but cant find the OS when trying to boot past the BIOS.
ill try a fresh windows install in the morning.

[Tombfoot]

1 minute ago, Youngy said:

yes correct the BIOS can see the SSD that the OS is on but cant find the OS when trying to boot past the BIOS.
ill try a fresh windows install in the morning.

Yeah give that a try or if you want, you can use a Windows recovery drive/disk to boot into a command prompt and rebuild the MFT and boot partition and see if that does you any good and then if not just go ahead and do a fresh install.

[Youngy]

On 12/15/2019 at 12:39 AM, Tombfoot said:

Yeah give that a try or if you want, you can use a Windows recovery drive/disk to boot into a command prompt and rebuild the MFT and boot partition and see if that does you any good and then if not just go ahead and do a fresh install.

so i have done all of the above.

1. removed the GPU
2. was able to get picture using the onboard integrated gfx.
3. still would not load past the bios.
4. ran repair tool more then once with no change.
5. i did something with rebuilding the MFT and or MBR using the cmd promt following a youtube guild.
6. no change after a restart.
7. after several restarts PC loads past the BIOS and i and able to load windows.
8. restarted this 5-6 times and every time was able to boot to windows.
9. success however im still not 100% sure on what i actually did that got it to boot to windows.
10. refitted the GPU and started up. got no picture at all after 4 attempts to start the PC.
11. removed GPU again and using onboard gfx i was able to get picture.
12. onboard gfx would not work while the GPU was fitted.

conclusion:

still no idea what fixed the boot drive SSD
Looks like GPU is dead.

trying to obtain a 2nd hand working GPU and a friend to possibly test my GPU in there system to see if it works.

P.S.
a friend told me that i could buy his 2nd hand GTX 1080 very cheap do you think there would be any compatibility issues with the current components?

Thanks Tombfoot & PopsicleHustler for your input and help much appreciated

[Tombfoot]

2 hours ago, Youngy said:

so i have done all of the above.

1. removed the GPU
2. was able to get picture using the onboard integrated gfx.
3. still would not load past the bios.
4. ran repair tool more then once with no change.
5. i did something with rebuilding the MFT and or MBR using the cmd promt following a youtube guild.
6. no change after a restart.
7. after several restarts PC loads past the BIOS and i and able to load windows.
8. restarted this 5-6 times and every time was able to boot to windows.
9. success however im still not 100% sure on what i actually did that got it to boot to windows.
10. refitted the GPU and started up. got no picture at all after 4 attempts to start the PC.
11. removed GPU again and using onboard gfx i was able to get picture.
12. onboard gfx would not work while the GPU was fitted.

conclusion:

still no idea what fixed the boot drive SSD
Looks like GPU is dead.

trying to obtain a 2nd hand working GPU and a friend to possibly test my GPU in there system to see if it works.

P.S.
a friend told me that i could buy his 2nd hand GTX 1080 very cheap do you think there would be any compatibility issues with the current components?

Thanks Tombfoot & PopsicleHustler for your input and help much appreciated

Yeah GPU is definitely dead. Double check the SATA data and power cables on your vertex on both ends and make sure they are snug and secure. It's possible the MBR and MFT rebuild did work but it just didn't take on the first restart? Which is strange but not outside the realm of possibility.

Glad it seems to be working for you anyway! Let us know when you get a new GPU and everything is hunky dory.