Windows 8.1 fails to boot.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Okay, so I've already made a topic about this, but nobody seemed to want to help, so I'll give it one last try.

 

So, I've just come home from college, thought I might play some BF4, go to turn my PC on, and the screen stays black after the Windows 8.1 splash screen. I tried re-seating the GPU, checking that EVERY SINGLE wire, cable connector, etc is plugged in properly, including the DVI-D cable going from my GPU to my monitor.

 

It still didn't boot, but Windows repair thingy popped up, diagnosed my computer and stated that it hadn't started correctly, recommending me to restart. This makes me think that it isn't the Boot SSD.

 

I re-booted and jumped into the Bios and made sure that my boot order priority was what it should be (Windows boot manager first, Samsung SSD second) 

checked that the CPU and both RAM sticks were registering in the Bios and re-booted. It still didn't fix the problem.

 

I then got a DisplayPort cable out and plugged my monitor into the back of my motherboard and set my monitor's source to DisplayPort. Doing this didn't yield anything, not even a Bios splash screen, completely black. 

 

So I'm stuck, I cant think of what else there is I could try short of downloading Windows 8.1, making a bootable USB stick and re-installing Windows. I'd rather not have to do that, as this install is only 2 weeks old. Is there anything else I could try, anything I missed when trying the monitor in the motherboard?

 

I'd really appreciate some help here, thanks. 

 

Digital.

 

[DamDirtyApe]

Isn't there a way to acces system recovery from the boot menu? Like, F5, F6, F10 or F12? I thought there was a way. Have you been able to access safe mode? You can always force your computer to let you choose which disk to boot from without going into the bios. Though normally if it's not booting from the proper drive I think you get an mbr error.

 

I'm a guess you already checked every single plug, SATA ports, CPU temperatures in BIOS, Memory speeds, etc. too.

 

Make sure the SATA controller or whatever the heck it's called for drives is still set to AHCI?

[Bartelsh]

if you try to use the displaybus on the motherboard while you have a graphics card installed you will often see a black screen because the integrated gpu is turned off. you will need to get rid of the graphics card in order to test properly

[TheDigitalRealm]

if you try to use the displaybus on the motherboard while you have a graphics card installed you will often see a black screen because the integrated gpu is turned off. you will need to get rid of the graphics card in order to test properly

Okay thanks, I'll try that.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Isn't there a way to acces system recovery from the boot menu? Like, F5, F6, F10 or F12? I thought there was a way. Have you been able to access safe mode? You can always force your computer to let you choose which disk to boot from without going into the bios. Though normally if it's not booting from the proper drive I think you get an mbr error.

 

I'm a guess you already checked every single plug, SATA ports, CPU temperatures in BIOS, Memory speeds, etc. too.

 

Make sure the SATA controller or whatever the heck it's called for drives is still set to AHCI?

I'll check but I can't see why it would have changed in the 8 hours I've been out for.

[TheDigitalRealm]

I've deduced that it must be a software problem as everything else checks out. I think it may be a corrupt file(s) in Windows. Anyway, doing a clean re-install just to be safe.

[Bartelsh]

I've deduced that it must be a software problem as everything else checks out. I think it may be a corrupt file(s) in Windows. Anyway, doing a clean re-install just to be safe.

okay, please tell us if it helps cause im curious what the problem is