CPU confused?

Wilmotheworm · August 17, 2020

I was using my pc earlier and was fine just like any other time then when I came back to it the monitor screen was black. This is normal just wiggle the mouse and on it comes, but this time nothing. I tried the keyboard and the same thing happened. I tried removing the hdmi and plugging in but nothing. So I reset the computer and when it came to the motherboard boot screen it booted fine. It went to the operating system screen and showed the windows logo and it loading. Then the screen went black and im back to step one. Any ideas whats gone wrong please?

Hairless Monkey · August 17, 2020

When this has happened to me, it was because my display was somehow set to secondary, and the primary monitor was not existent.

Try going through the motions of logging in, even though you won't be able to see what you are doing. If you get to the desktop you'll be able to update the primary display.

Hopefully that is the issue.

Windows7ge · August 17, 2020

Can you can into Safe Mode?

Alternatively as HairlessMonkeyBoy has suggested are there any audio signals that might indicate the system isn't frozen? Do you have more than one display attached? Multiple inputs on the same monitor?